Chinese dissident Chai Ling to speak

Chai Ling Details Tickets will be available to UW–Madison students, faculty and staff and Wisconsin Union members starting Thursday, March 18, at the Union Theater Box Office, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. weekdays and Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Remaining tickets will be available to the general public beginning Wednesday, March 24, at the box office, 11:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.

Chinese dissident Chai Ling will speak at the Wisconsin Union Theater, Thursday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m.

As chief commander of the Tiananmen Square Committee, Chai first entered American consciousness through a videotaped interview made secretly just before government tanks rolled through Beijing to quell the student uprising for democracy in June 1989.

In 1990, she became the international spokeswoman for the Chinese Democracy Movement. Nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, Chai is currently president of China Dialogue, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization.

The speech is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series, Associated Students of Madison, the University Book Store, Cole Bradley Sullivan Hall Association, Greek Update and Chadbourne Residential College.