China Support Network

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The China Support Network (CSN) is a U.S.-based organization promoting democracy for mainland China.

It is composed of a global network of individuals with skills and capabilities in creating websites, programming flash, designing graphic art, writing articles, reports and campaign letters, lobbying government, fundraising, organizing events, translating and providing legal analysis.

CSN provides news, commentary, information and analysis on events, issues, demonstrations and government policy related to our cause.

Directors of CSN have published numerous articles in Epoch Times and have also assisted news outlets including Time and Newsweek magazines, AP and Bloomberg newswires, and newswires in Asia and Europe.

From the organization's description:

"Begun as the American response group in 1989, CSN represents Americans who are "on the side" of the students in Tiananmen Square — standing for democratic reform, human rights, and freedom in China.

"The organizaton has worked directly with Chinese student leaders who escaped China and continues to have a working relationship with leading Chinese dissidents."

The China Support Network was founded by John Patrick Kusumi, who currently serves as its director emeritus. The organization opposes China's current government, the Communist Party of China, and refers to its position as "hardline anti-communist."

CSN works closely with the Chinese democracy movement, and with the outlawed group Falun Gong and its organisations, to support the campaign to resign from the Communist Party of China.

The China Support Network has described China under communist rule as "a dysfunctional country" and the the Communist Party of China as "the world's most murderous system", "even leaving Hitler behind" [1] and has made its viewers aware of reports that the Chinese government supports terrorist organisations, including al-Qaeda. [2] [3]

CSN recently criticized the plan of Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church to remove its embassy from Taiwan in an effort to improve ties with the government of the People's Republic of China and its Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. [4]

CSN was a prime mover in connecting NoManZero, the rock band, with the Chinese democracy movement. Two songs, “Remember Tiananmen Square” and “Bye Bye CCP” have resulted from the collaboration.

CSN is a member of the Boycott Made in China Coalition; the Global Coalition to Bring Jiang Zemin, to Justice; the “Bye Bye CCP” Coalition; the Coalition for the International Criminal Court; and works with the Free China Movement; the Laogai Research Foundation; and Olympic Watch.

[edit] External link

• China Support Network (official homepage)