San Francisco Celebrates 17 Million Withdrawals from the CCP

SAN FRANCISCO—The California Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a rally and parade at Portsmouth Square on January 14 in San Francisco to celebrate the 17 million withdrawals from the CCP and its related organizations.

The event included presentations by the San Francisco Divine Land Marching Band and the dance team, with both ensembles consisting of Chinese and Western Falun Gong practitioners. These dynamic performances drew in many passersby who later stayed to hear the moving words from guest speakers.

Rally host, Ma Youzhi, a representative from the Service Center for Quitting the CCP, proclaimed, "17 million Chinese have already quit the CCP. Today is a big day of celebration!"

During Mr. Ma's speech, he explained that while everyone now knows the CCP's history, it continues to kill and rob people because its essence has never changed. He mentioned that just in the past month, Jiangsu Province authorities forcibly demolished a 75-year-old man's house while he was still in it. The man died from falling debris, and the authorities sold his house to businessmen for profit. Later, six armed vehicles took away the corpse.

The California Service Center for Quitting the CCP held a celebration rally to support 17 million withdrawals from the CCP and its related organizations on January 14, at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco. (Jin Song/The Epoch Times)

Another speaker, Wang Feng, a senior manager of a high-tech company in the Bay Area, referenced the old adage of, "the straw that broke the camel's back" to illustrate the concept of an indeterminate turning point. "No one knows how many straws it will take to break the camel's back, just as no one can tell when the opportunity for withdrawing from the CCP will end." Wang warned, "If one does not quit the CCP before this turning point, they may never be able to claim freedom from this evil."

Bay Area resident, Professor Xia, recalled the CCP's beatings and murders of numerous groups when it first took power. She shared a painful memory from the Anti-Right Wing Campaign of 1957, in which her respected teacher was branded a class enemy for his comparison of Marxism to water—less sophisticated than tea. "I hope all Chinese can rise up, quit the CCP and dismantle the Party," Xia said.