1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 We Resolve to Fight to the End 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:08,200 Jasic Workers Support Group 23 August 2018 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,120 People often ask, why has this issue had such a large impact? 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,320 It’s actually very simple: 5 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:22,520 Because there are dark forces who don’t want to fix problems, 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,720 But rather want to fix the people who raise the problems. 7 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:28,920 It’s because of this that this issue has evolved to the level it’s at now. 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,160 Beginning last year, Jasic workers reported problems to the higher authorities. 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,360 They went to the Labor Bureau, they went to the ACFTU, but no one gave them an answer. 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,560 In the end workers were picked on, singled out, and beaten by the factory’s guards. 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,760 But what did the police do? 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:51,160 They stood on the side of [Jasic CEO] Pan Lei and the other capitalists. 13 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,360 Thus we workers had nowhere else to go. Thus we are standing here. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 They blocked us, surrounded us, followed us, planted spies in our midst, 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,200 censored information, kidnapped us, 16 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,000 used our relatives to try to divide and undermine us. 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,200 Recently they have put the word out 18 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,400 that in the next few days they want to violently clear us out 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,600 violently defeat all of us. 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,960 Will we be defeated by them? 21 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,160 No! 22 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,600 Professor Qian Liqun of Peking University once said, 23 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,800 Our universities are cultivating refined egoists. 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 As students, we cannot be so soft. 25 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,200 When we come across evil, when we come across dark forces, 26 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,400 We have to stand up and defend justice. 27 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,600 If we don’t act, who will? 28 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,800 It is precisely because we students have the simplest sense of social responsibility, 29 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 That we closely follow what Chairman Xi taught us: to button well our first button. 30 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,480 One particularly deep impression I have is of one time I spoke. 31 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,400 There were lots of people getting off work, And mothers with their children, 32 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,600 They all listened very intently to our speeches. 33 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,800 At the time there was a mother right across from me. 34 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,000 With one hand she held her child, with the other she held her phone, recording our speeches. 35 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:18,200 After our speech, with one hand hugging her child and one holding her phone, 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,360 she clapped resolutely for us. 37 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,400 I was very moved. 38 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,400 I really felt like our hearts were together. 39 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,640 We insist on winning justice for our workers, 40 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,851 We insist on speaking out for our workers, 41 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,040 Today we are standing here with dignity and our heads high, 42 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:44,240 Because we are the light and you are the dark, 43 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,440 And the purpose of light is to disperse darkness. 44 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:50,200 Sit in the midst of the people’s fire and shudder, you dark forces! 45 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,400 Our actions are no longer just for our friends not yet released from detention, 46 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,600 What we are defending is this expression of social morals, 47 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,800 What we want to demonstrate, is whether the dark forces of Pingshan can handle this. 48 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 In the face of these value-less souls and ugly faces, we must shout out: 49 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,200 Give us back our Mengyu! 50 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,080 Give us back our Support Group comrades! 51 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,240 Give us back our workers! 52 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,200 Jasic Workers: 53 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,880 Stand up! 54 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,640 Be your own masters! 55 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,160 Build a union! 56 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,760 Our cause is just. Just causes cannot be defeated by any enemy.