Cyclists joined the ranks of the Tiananmen Square remembrance rally today at Nathan Phillips Square to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre.
A group of two dozen met this morning outside Urbane Cyclist and biked to the noon-hour event. Eugene Yao, who co-founded the cycling co-operative that runs the store, helped organize the bike-in, while his daughter, Yaya Yao, organized the rally at City Hall. Together, the cyclists and the protesters staged a collective “die-in” to symbolically re-enact the killing of democracy protesters 20 years ago in Beijing.
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