【讓自由之風吹拂】
在史丹佛大學民主法治中心訪問學人計畫(Stanford University CDDRL Draper Hill Fellows Program)的第一天,很榮幸能夠讓史丹佛大學前校長 Gerhard Casper 帶著我們一眾學員導覽校園。
President Casper 是德國移民,在美國求學,曾經擔任過芝加哥大學法學院院長,之後來到史丹佛大學擔任校長,在1992年到2000年之間負責學校財務和擘畫領導,在擔任校長期間大幅提升人文社會科學(Liberal arts)在史丹佛的地位,並且增加大學部學生的奬學金,至今史丹佛大學只要學生能夠順利入學,學校便確保該名學員能夠得到足夠的財務補助順利畢業。目前史丹佛大學一年的總預算(expenditure)為63億美金,正可稱為富可敵國。
在美國,擔任大學校長是一個地位極為崇高的工作,並且需要跟業界建立良好關係,負責募款和籌建財源,像史丹佛這種私立大學幾乎沒有接受政府的補助,大部分的經費來自校友和企業,對於維持教學品質特別重視,大學部錄取率不到5%看成全美最難進入的學校。
Casper校長以他自身的經驗,從德國移民在美國發光,並且領導世界一流的大學。走過幾棟有科技業巨擘捐贈的建築物,當中包含微軟創辦人Bill Gates 、 Paul Allen和Nvidia 創辦人黃仁勳,都是在這位校長的任內完成。
而最令我印象深刻的,則是史丹佛的校訓"Die Luft der Freiheit weht",中文的意思是「讓自由之風吹拂」。
在2018的夏天,我正全心全意地在體會這陣自由之風。
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【Joshua Wong speaking to the Italian Senate】#意大利國會研討會演說 —— 呼籲世界在大學保衛戰一週年後與香港人站在同一陣線
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感謝開創未來基金會(Fondazione Farefuturo)邀請,讓我透過視像方式在意大利國會裡舉辦的研討會發言,呼籲世界繼續關注香港,與香港人站在同一陣線。
意大利作為絕無僅有參與一帶一路發展的國家,理應對中共打壓有更全面的理解,如今正值大學保衛戰一週年,以致大搜捕的時刻,當打壓更為嚴峻,香港更需要世界與我們同行。
為了讓各地朋友也能更了解香港狀況,我已在Patreon發佈當天演說的中文、英文和意大利文發言稿,盼望在如此困難的時勢裡,繼續讓世界知道我們未曾心息的反抗意志。
【The Value of Freedom: Burning Questions for Hong Kongers】
Good morning. I have the privilege today to share some of my thoughts and reflections about freedom, after taking part in social activism for eight years in Hong Kong. A movement calling for the withdrawal of the extradition law starting from last year had escalated into a demand for democracy and freedom. This city used to be prestigious for being the world’s most liberal economy, but now the infamous authoritarian government took away our freedom to election, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and ideas.
Sometimes, we cannot avoid questioning the cause we are fighting for, the value of freedom. Despite a rather bleak prospect, why do we have to continue in this struggle? Why do we have to cherish freedom? What can we do to safeguard freedom at home and stay alert to attacks on freedom? In answering these questions, I hope to walk through three episodes in the previous year.
Turning to 2020, protests are not seen as frequently as they used to be on the media lens, partly because of the pandemic, but more importantly for the authoritarian rule. While the world is busy fighting the pandemic, our government took advantage of the virus to exert a tighter grip over our freedom. Putting the emergency laws in place, public assemblies in Hong Kong were banned. Most recently, a rally to support press freedom organized by journalists was also forbidden. While many people may ask if it is the end of street activism, ahead of us in the fight for freedom is another battleground: the court and the prison.
Freedom Fighters in Courtrooms and in Jail
Part of the huge cost incurred in the fight for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong is the increasing judicial casualties. As of today, more than 10 thousand people have been arrested since the movement broke out, more than a hundred of them are already locked up in prison. Among the 2,300 protestors who are prosecuted, 700 of them may be sentenced up to ten years for rioting charges.
Putting these figures into context, I wish to tell you what life is like, as a youngster in today’s Hong Kong. I was humbled by a lot of younger protestors and students whose exceptional maturity are demonstrated in courtrooms and in prison. What is thought to be normal university life is completely out of the question because very likely the neighbour next door or the roommate who cooked you lunch today will be thrown to jail on the next.
I do prison visits a few times a month to talk to activists who are facing criminal charges or serving sentences for their involvement in the movement. It is not just a routine of my political work, but it becomes my life as an activist. Since the movement, prison visits has also become the daily lives of many families.
But it is always an unpleasant experience passing through the iron gates one after one to enter the visitors’ room, speaking to someone who is deprived of liberty, for a selflessly noble cause. As an activist serving three brief jail terms, I understand that the banality of the four walls is not the most difficult to endure in jail. What is more unbearable is the control of thought and ideas in every single part of our daily routine enforced by the prison system. It will diminish your ability to think critically and the worst of it will persuade you to give up on what you are fighting for, if you have not prepared it well. Three years ago when I wrote on the first page of prison letters, which later turned into a publication called the ‘Unfree Speech’, I was alarmed at the environment of the prison cell. Those letters were written in a state in which freedom was deprived of and in which censorship was obvious. It brings us to question ourselves: other than physical constraints like prison bars, what makes us continue in the fight for freedom and democracy?
Mutual Support to activists behind-the-scene
The support for this movement is undiminished over these 17 months. There are many beautiful parts in the movement that continue to revitalise the ways we contribute to this city, instead of making money on our own in the so-called global financial centre. In particular, it is the fraternity, the mutual assistance among protestors that I cherished the most.
As more protestors are arrested, people offer help and assistance wholeheartedly -- we sit in court hearings even if we don’t know each other, and do frequent prison visits and write letters to protesters in detention. In major festivals and holidays, people gathered outside the prison to chant slogans so that they won’t feel alone and disconnected. This is the most touching part to me for I also experienced life in jail.
The cohesion, the connection and bonding among protestors are the cornerstone to the movement. At the same time, these virtues gave so much empowerment to the mass public who might not be able to fight bravely in the escalating protests. These scenes are not able to be captured by cameras, but I’m sure it is some of the most important parts of Hong Kong’s movement that I hope the world will remember.
I believe this mutual support transcends nationality or territory because the value of freedom does not alter in different places. More recently, Twelve Hongkong activists, all involved in the movement last year, were kidnapped by China’s coastal guard when fleeing to Taiwan for political refugee in late-August. All of them are now detained secretly in China, with the youngest aged only 16. We suspect they are under torture during detention and we call for help on the international level, putting up #SAVE12 campaign on twitter. In fact, how surprising it is to see people all over the world standing with the dozen detained protestors for the same cause. I’m moved by activists in Italy, who barely knew these Hong Kong activists, even took part in a hunger strike last month calling for immediate release of them. This form of interconnectivity keeps us in spirit and to continue our struggle to freedom and democracy.
Understanding Value of freedom in the university battle
A year ago on this day, Hong Kong was embroiled in burning clashes as the police besieged the Polytechnic University. It was a day we will not forget and this wound is still bleeding in the hearts of many Hong Kongers. A journalist stationed in the university at that time once told me that being at the scene could only remind him of the Tiananmen Square Massacre 31 years ago in Beijing. There was basically no exit except going for the dangerous sewage drains.
That day, thousands of people, old or young, flocked to districts close to the university before dawn, trying to rescue protestors trapped inside the campus. The reinforcements faced grave danger too, for police raided every corner of the small streets and alleys, arresting a lot of them. Among the 800+ arrested on a single day, 213 people were charged with rioting. For sure these people know there will be repercussions. It is the conscience driving them to take to the streets regardless of the danger, the conscience that we should stand up to brutality and authoritarianism, and ultimately to fight for freedoms that are guaranteed in our constitution. As my dear friend, Brian Leung once said, ‘’Hong Kong Belongs to Everyone Who Shares Its Pain’’. I believe the value of freedom is exemplified through our compassion to whom we love, so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own.
Defending freedom behind the bars
No doubt there is a terrible price to pay in standing up to the Beijing and Hong Kong government. But after serving a few brief jail sentences and facing the continuing threat of harassment, I learnt to cherish the freedom I have for now, and I shall devote every bit what I have to strive for the freedom of those who have been ruthlessly denied.
The three episodes I shared with you today -- the courtroom, visiting prisoners and the battle of university continue to remind me of the fact that the fight for freedom has not ended yet. In the coming months, I will be facing a maximum of 5 years in jail for unauthorized assembly and up to one ridiculous year for wearing a mask in protest. But prison bars would never stop me from activism and thinking critically.
I only wish that during my absence, you can continue to stand with the people of Hong Kong, by following closely to the development, no matter the ill-fated election, the large-scale arrest under National Security Law or the twelve activists in China. To defy the greatest human rights abusers is the essential way to restore democracy of our generation, and the generation following us.
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林語堂高於胡適的一點,是胡適過於嚴肅,而林語堂則學通英國人的幽默。懂得幽默則自然隨和,語帶輕鬆,一切以快樂為本,不會來憂國憂民那一套,以開心欣賞、冷靜旁觀為專。
林語堂選擇了蘇東坡為中國文化精華的典範人物,向西方推介,此一眼光,經得時間考驗。
蘇東坡性格寬和,為人幽默精趣,政治則取態中庸,卻又以知識份子的身份不至於不關懷疾苦。1,000 年前,蘇東坡不但是中國最早的「自由知識份子」,即所謂 Liberal,而且在蘇東坡身上有邱吉爾的文采和情趣,有英國人的中庸和幽默。
20 年代最看得通中西文化的現代中國知識份子,有人說是胡適,有人說是林語堂。
胡適是安徽人、林語堂是福建人。兩人都精通英文,對英美的民主自由思想文化有深刻的認識。但福建臨海面對南洋,對海洋的見識,畢竟比內陸的安徽強一線。林語堂不像胡適,不向中國人硬銷西方的議會民主。林語堂走另一個方向,將中國文化的精華,用通俗的英文文筆向西方民間情懷推介。
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各節重點:
00:00 前導
02:41 從政將近半世紀的老將拜登
03:52 拜登的爭議和缺點
05:26 拜登的「修復」工程
06:54 對外關係的可能發展
08:49 黨內外的政治角力
10:14 我們的觀點
12:29 提問
12:46 結尾
【 製作團隊 】
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|腳本:路寬、冰鱸
|編輯:土龍、冰鱸
|剪輯後製:Pookie
|剪輯助理:歆雅、珊珊
|演出:志祺
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【 本集參考資料 】
→Why America Must Lead Again:https://fam.ag/2JTQoaD
→拜登與中國的40年:從支持中國崛起到對華強硬 - 紐約時報中文網:https://nyti.ms/3nkY4Bj
→美國當選總統:誰是喬·拜登?:https://bbc.in/2Un7a41
→等了33年,拜登終於登上美國總統寶座!:https://bit.ly/2IyxXb2
→美國政壇「不死老喬」:拜登的第三次總統:https://bit.ly/3krDRrM
→若拜登當選總統 將與盟友共同抗衡中國:https://bit.ly/38DielS
→曾稱讚14歲少女胸部?拜登遭譏「猥瑣怪叔叔」性騷擾黑歷史連環爆 | 國際 | 新頭殼 Newtalk:https://bit.ly/35rLPg3
→美國大選:拜登部署新計劃 首要任務是應對新冠疫情 https://bbc.in/3kttAeD
→拜登入主白宮對國際局勢的影響:https://bit.ly/3ltVg4n
→拜登上任之後,將會面臨哪些外交挑戰?:https://bit.ly/2IzuhFI
→誰是總統當選人喬拜登?:他身邊的人是誰?:https://bit.ly/38CNCB5
→美國人2020大選投票率創120年來新高:https://www.voacantonese.com/a/make-america-vote-again-20201109/5653634.html
→〈美國總統大選〉一文掌握 拜登對美中台議題的看法:https://bit.ly/3eUkyWN
→喬治亞州2席都要決選 參院確定明年1月才知由哪黨掌控:https://bit.ly/3eXaMTR
→台灣人能盼到「川規拜隨」嗎?:https://bit.ly/3niV6x9
→Tara Reade: What are the sex attack allegations against Joe Biden? - BBC News:https://bbc.in/3f78SQN
→About the Transition | President-Elect Joe Biden https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/
→Zero tolerance policy, explain:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/why-are-families-being-separated-at-the-us-border-explainer
→COVID-19-The Biden-Harris plan to beat COVID-19:https://bit.ly/3pnZmgE
→ECONOMIC RECOVERY-The Biden-Harris Jobs and Economic Recovery Plan for Working Families:https://bit.ly/2IsvUVP
→RACIAL EQUITY-The Biden-Harris plan to advance racial equity:https://bit.ly/2Uot86U
→ CLIMATE CHANGE-The Biden-Harris plan to create union jobs by tackling the climate crisis:https://bit.ly/38yT2wW
→Who might Biden tap for top foreign policy positions? - Los Angeles Times:https://lat.ms/3lrc6Rq
→Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for costing the party seats :https://wapo.st/38F23o0
→Joe Biden: I'm a Democrat and I love John McCain - YouTube:https://bit.ly/36M0nqz
→How UPS explained the missing Biden family documents, and a word about Hunter:https://fxn.ws/35pc3zW
→Trump attacked Biden by saying his opponent would 'listen to the scientists' in dealing with COVID-19:https://bit.ly/2IiR9cC
→This is the time to heal': Joe Biden addresses Americans in election victory speech:https://bit.ly/3kAA1g5
→Can Trump steal the election?: https://bit.ly/3eVrAuf
→Joe Biden wins: what next for America? - YouTube:https://bit.ly/2UnC9wN
【 延伸閱讀 】
→Saving Lives in America, China, and Around the World | Asia Society:https://bit.ly/36vNmRI
→Biden and Ukraine: What we know about corruption claims :https://bit.ly/32HZi1H
→Is Hunter Biden a problem for Joe Biden? :https://bit.ly/32D8ogc
→The case for Joe Biden :https://bit.ly/3lrcDmo
→Joe Biden’s Record on China and Taiwan:https://bit.ly/32HdSXc
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