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Grassroots politician Nie Hailiang is no longer interested in politics. Jocelyn Ford Liberation: Today, we get a glimpse of a more recent attempt at people power. A half year ago we reported on a rare grassroots election campaign that successfully elected a high tech businessman to a local People's Congress. The candidate ran on a green platform to save a park. Marketplace follows up on what has since happened to him since, and what happened to other citizen activists. Broadcast Date: Morning Report, Thursday, June 3, 2004

Sports Promoter Li Liangshi, 33, watches a bike motorcross champion. Jocelyn Ford Where Are They Now?: Fifteen years ago students in China gathered in Tiananmen Square to protest against government corruption. They chanted and sang and demanded a meeting with top officials. The government responded by sending troops to clear the square. By June 4th hundreds, perhaps thousands of civilians had been killed. Dazed and bloodied survivors stumbled through the smoke and debris. That was in 1989. Recently our Beijing Bureau Chief Jocelyn Ford caught up with one of those protestors to find out what became of his dreams of democracy and freedom. Broadcast Date: Thursday, June 3, 2004 Discuss and debate freedom and democracy in China

A vista around the resort of Lushin, in China. Jocelyn Ford The Tiananmen Anniversary Fifteen years ago today over a million people packed Beijing's Tiananmen Square to demand more political freedom and an end to government corruption in China. But the Communist Party ordered the army to force the protestors out. The ricochet of bullets and rumbling of tanks drowned out the songs and chants. When the smoke cleared, hundreds of people were dead. Today there was a replay of sorts, as government forces arrested protesters who were commemorating the anniversary. Today's crackdown demonstrated once again that the Communist Party is still the only party in town. But the country's hunger for economic growth is starting to force some changes. Marketplace's Jocelyn Ford has the story of one party maverick. Broadcast Date: Friday, June 4, 2004 All photos by Jocelyn Ford. View the gallery.