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Why Taiwan Should Provide a Safe Environment for Tai Ji Men
Taiwan’s treatment of Tai Ji Men opens it to criticism by hostile countries. It is in its best interest to solve the Tai Ji Men case.
A Safe Environment for Tai Ji Men
On World Environment Day, scholars and human rights activists celebrated Dr, Hong’s pro-environment achievements and discussed the Tai Ji Men case.
Chen Zhen’s “Fu Dao,” the Environment, and Tai Ji Men
The masterpiece of a contemporary Chinese artist tells us a tale that is relevant for promoting a safe environment and reflecting on the Tai Ji Men case.
How Repression of Religious Freedom Affects Social Justice: The Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan
An overview of the long-lasting case and some comments based on the author’s peculiar experience as a firefighter.
Tai Ji Men’s Work for Peace, Conscience, and Human Rights
Tai Ji Men offers traditional Chinese wisdom and promotes peace, love, and conscience. It also fights for human rights, including FoRB and tax justice.
Tax Reform Volunteer Walks Around Taiwan for Love and Justice
Yi Chan walked for thirteen days witnessing for tax and legal reform and arrived in Kaohsiung on May 20, the day of love.
“War and Peace” and the Tai Ji Men Case
Falsified by Stalin and now Putin, Tolstoy’s thought was that war is senseless but injustice remains intolerable and should be resisted through non-violent means.
Spirituality, World Peace, and Tai Ji Men: The Long Road of Transcultural Dialogue
Since the 19th century, Theosophy and other spiritual organizations have promoted universal brotherhood. So does today Tai Ji Men.
Peace for Tai Ji Men Means Peace for All Taiwan
Peace is the most important expression of human sociality, and always goes hand in hand with justice. Peace in Taiwan needs a solution of the Tai Ji Men case.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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