Lee Siu Hin: 2011 New Year Message and Reflections from 2010 Dear all: Happy New Year 2011 from Shanghai, China! Middle of my China-U.S. solidarity working trip!
12/31/2010 12:59:59PM: Tens of thousands people watching the new year countdown at Shanghai's Xintiandi shopping district For the past several months, I had been working to setup our office in China, we'd received a grant from China--Project 530 URL: _http://www.530.gov.cn/_ (http://www.530.gov.cn/) it's an national scientific grants from Chinese government at the city of Wuxi (west of Shanghai, 35 min travel time by high-speed train) includes grant money, free office and the free housing to develop next generation IT technologies for community use in U.S. and China. Wuxi High-Speed Railroad Station (runs the new world fastest 350KMH high-speed train) Therefore, I'll travel frequently between China U.S. and other countries for this project, as well as building a cultural, scientific, mutually respect bi-national solidarity activist movements between China and U.S. Last week we'd finalized the contract details, and beginning the company setup process. If everything going as we plan, we'll be moving to our new office in Wuxi at April 1st, 2011! Room 906 (We'll have the office between the 906 doors from left to right), this could be our office by April, 2011! Room 906..with bright sunlights Building lobby Building lobby I am taking this step because this is a critical moment for global peace and justice movements. Obama's 2 years in the office had crushed all our hope for better world and became even worse then Bush's era. Every single negative prediction I made when Obama elected 2 years ago became reality (Read my 2008 article "What We Should Expect from President Barak Obama?" URL: _http://www.peacenowar.net/newpeace/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44 3&Itemid=1_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/newpeace/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=443&Itemid=1) ) For the past tow years, there's no doubt many "left" had been sold out their soul and principles to the U.S. imperialist/pro-multinational corporate/pro-war agendas for hyper-billion corporate bailout/military spending, and cutting social welfare of the poor and supporting the near-Nazi-type Islamophobia/anti-immigrant agendas. Internationally, Obama had become "Obomba" as many peace activists say: Continue and esclate proxy U.S.-mercenary occupation in Iraq, expand war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and beating up war drums with their client states against North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Lebanon... as well as covert and overt new cold war with China and Russia.. U.S. left has no doubt had lost its direction, the anti-war/global justice movements had been shrink to historically low..donation has been dropped to the bottom as well as the protest size. Progressive left and peace loving activists should not be afraid to step down from self-serving U.S. = truth that U.S. is the solutions for global problem, rather, we should honestly listen to others, and allow people from the global south and the people of color from our inner-city to critique us and sincerely listen to them how to lead our movements. That's the reason why I am coming to China. Here's an interesting website created by Chinese cyber activists: _http://en.m4.cn/_ (http://en.m4.cn/) Although I am Chinese, speaks perfect Chinese and consider to be China expert. By no mean I am coming here with hi-style and telling them what to do--Rather, I am humbly coming here with super-low budget+my identity sealed: I identify myself as: Chinese kid from country side never went to foreign country and don't speaks English ("Los Angeles? Where's the hell is that?"), working a part-time job with low pay in Shanghai to pay my rent and food; living, working and eating with ordinarily Chinese working class everyday without anyone suspect who I am, what I do, where I am from. I live in a cheapest "student apartment" in the city center--actually a 6 people bunker-beds room (smaller then a regular Motel 6 rooms) with 5 others "bed potato" roommates (500 RMB = 75 USD per month), my daily food budget is approx.15 RMB (~ 2.3 USD). My bunker bed - 1st floor My "bed potato" roommates - 2nd floor (yes, he eat, sleep, playing computer 24 hrs/day without ever leave the bed! (except go to bathroom) I don't arrive to do this in just coming out from nowhere, it's my very careful thought on how to build the better world, peace and justice--an opportunities to work together for the future to build culture, scientific, mutually respect bi-national solidarity between U.S. an other countries. For the New Year 2011, I hope my work from the last year will be coming fruitful..I also want to thanks for many people had help my activism works for the past several years: Don, Tom, Chuck, Robert, Lisa, Louis, Eric, Alice, Hank...and more. Finally, same as for the past 15 years, I wihes you everyone: Peace on Earth End World Hunger Justice for eveyone One Ture Love Happy New Year 2011! 李小轩 Lee Siu Hin National Coordinator National Immigrant Solidarity Network _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) Action LA Network _http://www.ActionLA.org_ (http://www.actionla.org/) Peace NO War Network _http://www.PeaceNOWar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) Activist Video Service _http://www.ActivistVideo.org_ (http://www.activistvideo.org/) New York: (212)330-8172 Los Angeles: (213)403-0131 Washington D.C.: (202)595-8990 Chicago: (773)942-2268 Please consider making a donation to the important work of National Immigrant Solidarity Network Send check pay to: National Immigrant Solidarity Network/AFGJ National Immigrant Solidarity Network P.O. 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