How has the Internet been used to resist or counteract religious persecution and human rights abuse? As a start, navigate to the Falun Dafa Information Centre (you may use other examples).
A large number of organisations now utilize the Internet and its collaborative applications to share information and gain support for communities and peoples who are being victimised due to religious beliefs. Generally, these websites contain details of details of the injustice that is occurring and where these actions are taking place. The sites suggest ways that people can be involved, through online petitions, donating to the cause and helping spreading their word.
The Falun Dafa Information Centre site is huge. Prior to this topic I had not ever taken the time to find out more about their cause, even when handed a flyer. I just could not comprehend how a form of Tai Chi could be a threat to a country, obviously an uneducated viewpoint! The Falun Dafa site’s layout is similar to a breaking news site, with rolling updates and links to ‘action’ images of the fight in progress. It acts as the information starting point and sharing point. Their word is spread from the site via other website, twitter and Facebook.
Fellow student Kathryne Wells explains
Falon Gong is a form of qigong with extra spiritual and philosophical content. Gigong has been encouraged by the Chinese government since the late 1940's when Chairman Mao proclaimed that ' a healthy peasant is a happy peasant. However the Chinese have removed all suggestions of spiritual content (Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism)…A Tai Chi instructor with whom I trained, and who himself had been trained at the Beijing Institute of Sport, declared that he did not 'believe in chi' (energy) The Chinese government seem to consider the concept (of chi’) to be religious in nature and therefore to be stamped out.
Two Christian examples are:
International Christian Concern http://www.persecution.org/
Mission Without Borders International http://www.mwbi.org/
A non-religion based example:
I am a member of one.org, not a religious organization but a human rights organization that focuses on poverty and all associated with it. Currently they are campaigning heavily around AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. ‘The beginning of the end of AIDS starts now’.
cheers
Sarah
Wells, Kathryne (2012), Group Discussion Board, Learning Portfolio discussion https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_4_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_40431_1%26url%3D
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