Improve Your Writing: Read it Aloud
Improve Your Writing: Read it Aloud
No matter where you are in the writing process, listening to your work in your own voice will catch errors, word use, and pacing better than any other first-pass method I’ve found.
https://medium.com/@augustbirch/the-one-secret-to-improve-your-writing-immediately-9a50f0364d43
No matter where you are in the writing process, listening to your work in your own voice will catch errors, word use, and pacing better than any other first-pass method I’ve found.
https://medium.com/@augustbirch/the-one-secret-to-improve-your-writing-immediately-9a50f0364d43
Ottawa: Films on China's Organ Crimes Screened by Canadian MPs and Bioethics Society
ReplyDeleteApril 19, 2017
Two films were recently screened in Ottawa, a drama and a documentary, on the issue of state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China, and were sponsored by Canadian Parliament Members and the Canadian Bioethics Society.
“The Bleeding Edge” is based on true stories, and stars Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada, who tells a story of a jailed and tortured Falun Gong practitioner who faces the risk of becoming a victim of forced organ harvesting.
The award-winning documentary, “Human Harvest: China’s Illegal Organ Trade,” with the same director, Vancouver resident Leon Lee, assembles a considerable amount of evidence on the Chinese Communist Party's killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs.
“The Bleeding Edge”
Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Garnett Genuis and former Liberal MP and Former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler co-hosted the screening of “The Bleeding Edge” on April 4, 2017 at the National Press Theatre.
MP Genuis (right), former MP Cotler (middle) and Miss World Canada Anastasia Lin answer questions from the audience after the screening.
“Powerful, powerful film,” Genuis said. “Every component of the film, in terms of the experience of [Falun Gong] persecution, relates to real events taken from the lives of real people who shared that information. So it is a powerful form of testimony about the evil of this organ harvesting that is happening in China.”
“I think everybody leaves here with a strong sense of resolve and responsibility, for us to take action as Canadians to address these human rights abuses,” he added.
Cotler, who had seen “The Bleeding Edge” previously at a screening in Prague, Czech Republic, last October, said he was again very moved by the film.
“This is a crime against humanity. It is horrific enough. Those engaged in it will have to be held accountable, and we as a country, as a government, as a parliament, have to ensure we are not in any way facilitating it … indulging it. We will hold them accountable—that is what this legislation is all about.”
The Former Liberal Justice Minister said he supports engaging with China, but “engaging on behalf of the people of China, on behalf of the Falun Gong, and holding those committing these crimes accountable.”