On April 3, students of Michigan University gathered in groups on the middle campus lawn. Many were there for Easter festivities.
At 10am, Dafa practitioners placed a few Falun Gong picture display boards at the heart of the busiest area, immediately attracting surrounding onlookers. Many people carefully read the information and took the leaflets. Some immediately wanted to know the group practice times and locations. This was their first time in contact with such bloody and violent persecution scenes. Articles written with tears and photos showing bodies filled with scars and wounds shocked these young people and made them angry. They were astonished at the heroic courage of Mainland practitioners in the face of such violent brutality.
After glancing at a few photos, many students immediately signed their name on the petition to express their heartfelt support. Some students took blank petition forms for their friends to sign before sending them to Geneva. Others, after signing, told their friends to sign as well.
Some students needed to go to class and promised that they would come and sign the petition afterwards. Many others, after returning to their classrooms and dorms, told their friends not to miss this valuable opportunity to look at the displays.
That day, there were many tourists who came to Michigan University. A lady from Germany said that almost everyone knows about Falun Gong in her country. She expressed heartfelt blessings towards Falun Gong's future.
In the afternoon, there were still many people viewing the displays. Even as we were finishing up, a young man hurriedly came and solemnly signed the last name on the petition for that day.
Seedlings in the soil nurtured by Dafa practitioners ' blood and life have grown and sprouted. Kindhearted people from all over the world are using their righteous thoughts and actions to write their part in history's page.
Michigan Dafa practitioners
April 8, 2001
