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This past weekend, VOC attended the 43rd annual Home Educators Association of Virginia conference. Our team spoke with families, students, and teachers about the ideology, history, and deadly legacy of communism. We are proud to offer curricular resources that fill a void in education. Together, we can empower the next generation and stand with the victims of communism.

"The students who filled Tiananmen Square did not have the luxury of the Declaration behind them — and yet they were saying the same things. They believed that the government required the consent of the governed. They believed that rights were not gifts the state handed out, but things that belonged to them simply because they were human." -Olivia Woitach writing for VOC’s Student Essay Contest victimsofcommunism.org/beyon…

37 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese Communist Party still fears the memory of that night, because it reveals who they truly are. On June 4 at the Tiananmen Memorial in Washington, DC, I spoke about the slaughter that should have changed everything, the decades of quiet accommodation that followed, and why standing with those who still resist the regime’s demand for total (actual or performative) submission is more urgent than ever. I also highlighted a remarkable new series of never-before-seen photographs from June 4, 1989, published today on the front page of The Epoch Times. Please take a moment to view them (the link is in the thread below!) Here are my full remarks 37 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, at the Victims of Communism (@VoCommunism) Memorial, Washington, DC, June 4, 2026: Good evening, everybody. My name is Jan Jekielek. I'm the senior editor at the @EpochTimes and author of a book titled Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary. And this nature is something that we haven't gotten right, and we should have when Tiananmen Square happened, when the massacre happened. So, tonight we remember the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the students, the workers, and the ordinary citizens murdered on June 4, 1989 for daring to imagine a freer China. On the front page of The Epoch Times today we are publishing a whole series of never-before-seen photos that were contributed to us recently. They were taken by a state media photographer 37 years ago. These are very powerful images. I encourage you to check it out. The person who put these together, Eva Fu (@EvaSailEast), she's actually here doing an article on this event, so I hope you get a chance to speak with her later today. It's a striking historical fact that the same day, June 4, 1989, Poland held its first semi-free parliamentary election since the communist era. Solidarity won a landslide victory, and hope began to spread across Eastern Europe, and the Berlin Wall fell. In Poland, people chose freedom, but in China, the regime chose slaughter. The massacre itself was monstrous, but hope died twice that year, first in the blood of the streets of Beijing, and again when the United States responded not with sustained accountability but with quiet accommodation. Just weeks after the killings, the administration at the time secretly dispatched the National Security Advisor and the Deputy Secretary of State to Beijing. Their mission was to signal to the Chinese leadership that America would ride out the storm of public outrage and work to restore the strategic relationship. Most Americans never knew about this back-channel. For decades, we pursued a policy of engagement, telling ourselves the comforting story that trade and money would change China, that economic integration would liberalize the regime and make it a responsible stakeholder. The opposite happened: The Chinese Communist Party changed us. It turned us, it turned our openness into vulnerability. It captured influence in our institutions. It made us economically dependent on a system built on lies, on repression, and on brutality. And then, in the year 2000 the regime launched something even darker, a large-scale industrialized forced organ harvesting industry built on the bodies of Falun Gong practitioners, which they had started persecuting the year before. The crime rested on two pillars, very vicious dehumanizing propaganda, and also a vast system of mass arbitrary detention that eventually ended up serving as the source of the organs. For 14 or 15 years, the world largely turned away, and emboldened by this, the regime expanded the same machinery of dehumanization and mass incarceration to the Uyghur people, and perhaps even to others. This is why the memory of Tiananmen remains so urgent. The Chinese Communist Party has never abandoned its core demand, total submission, or at least the appearance of it. Anyone who refuses, whether through faith, through conscience, or simple human dignity, becomes a target. That is why we must stand with those who still resist: • Falun Gong practitioners who continue to practice and speak the truth, • and the millions who have joined the Quit the CCP or the @TuidangMovement to renounce their ties to the communist party, the youth league and the young pioneers, • the white paper protesters of 2022 including brave young people like Zhang Junjie who stood alone in Beijing holding a blank sheet of paper a silent indictment of censorship and tyranny and paid a terrible price, • Christians worshiping in underground churches, • Tibetans demanding their culture and faith, • and of course Uyghurs and Kazakhs enduring camps and surveillance, • and every individual across China who chooses conscience over performative or actual loyalty. Their courage is living proof that the spirit the regime tried to crush in 1989 is not dead today. We are finally beginning to move in the right direction, I think, recognizing the true nature of the threat and starting to correct the mistakes of all-out engagement, but we must go further by remembering Tiananmen and standing firmly with all those who resist. We honor the dead and keep the flame of hope alive. Thank you. @FalunInfoCtr @TuidangMovement @hrichina @ZhouFengSuo @chinaaid @TibetPeople @UyghurCongress @UyghurProject

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is seeking a full-time Director of Operations to join the organization’s team in Washington, DC. victimsofcommunism.org/call-…

"The ambassador strongly recommended educational efforts to combat the rising tide of socialism – praising the efforts of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Museum two blocks away from the White House." -Lithuanian Ambassador Gediminas @Varvuolis speaking with @Gabby_Hoffman townhall.com/columnists/gabr…

The Tiananmen Square Massacre itself was monstrous. But hope died twice that year. First in blood on the streets of Beijing. And again when the United States responded not with sustained accountability, but with quiet accommodation. Just weeks after the killings, the US administration at the time secretly dispatched its National Security Advisor and Deputy Secretary of State to Beijing. Their mission was to signal to the Chinese leadership that America would ride out the storm of public outrage and work to restore the strategic relationship. Most Americans never knew this backchannel effort had taken place. For decades we pursued a policy of engagement, telling ourselves the comforting story that trade and money would change China—that economic integration would liberalize the regime and make it a responsible stakeholder. The opposite happened. The Chinese Communist Party changed us. It turned our openness into vulnerability, captured influence in our institutions, and made us economically dependent on a system built on lies, repression, and brutality. I was honored to be invited to speak tonight at @VoCommunism’s candlelight vigil remembering June 4.

In Washington, DC, dozens gathered at the #GoddessOfDemocracy to mark the 37th anniversary of #June4 #TiananmenMassacre. @VoCommunism presented @frances_hui w/ Dissident Human Rights Award. Arthur Liu, Alyssa Liu's dad & Tiananmen survivor, thanked #HongKongers for rescuing him.

6🈷️4日，參加共產主義受難者基金會@VoCommunism 組織的燭光集會，與劉俊相遇。

"To receive this on June 4 is deeply humbling. I accept it with deep gratitude — but not as mine alone." Tonight, @frances_hui accepted the 2026 Dissident Human Rights Award from @VoCommunism. She dedicated it to the students of Tiananmen, to the two million Hong Kongers who marched for freedom, and to her friends still sitting in #HongKong's prison cells. #June4

On June 4th, 1989, the CCP brutally massacred students gathered in Tiananmen Square. The communists in Beijing then tried to cover up their crimes. We will never forget.