#NOBEIJING2022
This video is downloadable. We highly encourage doing so and sharing it as much as possible.
This video is downloadable. We highly encourage doing so and sharing it as much as possible.
A Message from One of the Creators, Emily Marie Palmer:
"I often use the word “unimaginable” when speaking about genocide. But that is a habit I’m trying to break, because we NEED to imagine it. We need to imagine what it would be to be forcibly removed from our home, interned in a “re-education” camp, tortured, forced to renounce our language, religion, culture, and perhaps even our own name. And, like the families of those imprisoned, we need to imagine what it would be to be under constant surveillance, to be stripped of all privacy and autonomy. To be told that if you will go to work in a factory (in conditions that amount to slavery) your loved ones’ sentence will be shortened, or their treatment improved (though there is no evidence that this ever actually happens). My hope is that this video will help us to imagine it — and to take action. ✊🏻
If you are following the news, you may have heard that many countries around the world are engaging in a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. We should ALL participate in this boycott — and speak out against these atrocities.
“Being an Uyghur should not be a crime! Speaking up for injustice should not be a crime! Practicing your religion should not be a crime. Being different should not be a crime.” - Jewher Ilham, Uyghur Author + Human Rights Advocate
(Grateful acknowledgements of my co-producers, International Youth Movement for Human Rights, director/creator @joeyciccoline and the voice talents of Wesley Freitas and Kevin Palmer.)"
#nobeijing2022
"I often use the word “unimaginable” when speaking about genocide. But that is a habit I’m trying to break, because we NEED to imagine it. We need to imagine what it would be to be forcibly removed from our home, interned in a “re-education” camp, tortured, forced to renounce our language, religion, culture, and perhaps even our own name. And, like the families of those imprisoned, we need to imagine what it would be to be under constant surveillance, to be stripped of all privacy and autonomy. To be told that if you will go to work in a factory (in conditions that amount to slavery) your loved ones’ sentence will be shortened, or their treatment improved (though there is no evidence that this ever actually happens). My hope is that this video will help us to imagine it — and to take action. ✊🏻
If you are following the news, you may have heard that many countries around the world are engaging in a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. We should ALL participate in this boycott — and speak out against these atrocities.
“Being an Uyghur should not be a crime! Speaking up for injustice should not be a crime! Practicing your religion should not be a crime. Being different should not be a crime.” - Jewher Ilham, Uyghur Author + Human Rights Advocate
(Grateful acknowledgements of my co-producers, International Youth Movement for Human Rights, director/creator @joeyciccoline and the voice talents of Wesley Freitas and Kevin Palmer.)"
#nobeijing2022
