China: Jasmine Revolution, Week Two · Global Voices
John Kennedy

A week after small protests took place in Beijing and Shanghai and failed to materialize in the other 11 cities mentioned in the anonymous blog post which sought to spark a Jasmine Revolution in China, a second round of protests are scheduled for today in 23 cities across China.
Chinese scholar, writer and blogger Ran Yunfei, now being held on charges of subversion of state authority. Photo by Flickr user RebeccaMacK.
Since last week, a growing number of arrests have been made, the venue of the Beijing protest has become a construction site, ramped-up Internet censorship targeting a growing list of words has had the unintended effect of leaving little but pro-Jasmine voices online, ‘China’ is suspected of having DDoSed Twitter, the 50 Cent Party has beleaguered itself with launching a saliva war against liberal Chinese Twitter users, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has abruptly announced a netizen chat session set for first thing Sunday morning.
Follow the GVO Team China Twitter account for English-language updates throughout Sunday aiming to represent the full extent of opinions regarding the struggling movement, unless they all resemble this February 26 post from an anonymous new blog devoted to the Jasmine Revolution cause:
民主的春天暖人心，让我们散步去
茉莉花革命来了，她的脚步是那样清晰，听起来虽然不大，但每个向往民主的中国人心中都能感受到她，她是那样亲切，那样让人振奋。五千来被专制和残暴奴役的大地又重新萌动起来，春一样的感觉……不，这就是春天，春天已经来到，只不过是初春，民主之芽已经破土而出，这是实实在在春的感觉，暖人心的感觉。
来吧，朋友们，不要再害怕冬的寒冷，它即将过去，让我们走出家门，走上广场，用我们心中的暖意呵护着民主之芽，只要我们坚持，总有一天她会茁壮成长。
记住那特殊的日子：2011年2月20日。
Mark this special day: February 20, 2011.
明天，也就是2011年2月27日也即将成为另一个特殊的日子。让我们用我们双脚把今后的每个周日都变成这样一个个特殊的日子。坚持就是胜利。未来的变化还很难预测，但不管怎样，既然天意在冥冥之中让我们找到了这个可行的方法，我们就不该放弃。这个方法的好处是，一旦约定，就可以让分散的每个人单独实施，一次成不了事，就两次、三次……，多次之后，总有一次会汇聚成民主之河，冲刷掉一切腐朽专制强加在我们身上的枷锁。
当然，专制独裁者不会轻易放弃，它会用暴力来恐吓和镇压我们，恐吓已经开始，看国内网站上已经在首要位置出现“埃及火烧警察”的图片，这就是恐吓，这是它们惯用的伎俩，六四时它们就用这些招数，它们是人类历史上最卑鄙的一群人。然而，现在已然不同，网络发展，民智已开，民主潮流滚滚而来，它们已经是黔驴技穷。
将来的任何变化，都不要为所动摇，人人做到从我做起，坚持散步，广为宣传，攻破专制堡垒的那一天一定能到来！
走，那我们散步去！
Don't be shaken by any of the changes ahead. Together, we will overcome. We will persevere in stepping out, we will spread the word, and the day on which the autocratic stronghold is broken is guaranteed to come!
Now let's move, to the streets!