Falun Gong and China's Largest Civil Disobedience Movement | Levi Browde

In this episode, Levi Browde, Executive Director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, shares the story of Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)—a spiritual practice based on meditation, qigong, and the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. He covers its rapid rise in the early 1990s, with up to 100 million practitioners in China, followed by the 1999 persecution ordered by then-leader Jiang Zemin. Levi details the CCP's brutal methods—including arrests, torture, forced labor, brainwashing, and forced organ harvesting—and explains why the campaign began: fear of the group's independence and size. He highlights practitioners' extraordinary resistance in China and abroad, calling it the world's largest civil disobedience movement—a peaceful, sustained stand against repression that persists today. Levi also discusses the CCP's overseas efforts to harass and discredit practitioners, plus troubling complicity from Western companies through tools enabling surveillance and censorship.