Falun Gong Adherents Brave Rain in Brooklyn to Denounce Chinese Communist Party’s Abuses
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.—Heavy rain and cold winds did not deter hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from parading down Brooklyn’s Chinatown on Oct. 2 to call for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s 23-year-long persecution of the spiritual group.
Participants, drenched by the rain despite many of them wearing yellow plastic rain jackets, held banners and signs urging people to distance themselves from the myriad abuses committed by the communist regime, and supporting the more than 400 million who have severed their ties with the Party.
The wind and rain, however, were nothing compared to what adherents have experienced in China, said organizer Yi Rong, a representative of the Falun Dafa Association in New York….