Sparrow Initiative, led by Dr. Yang Jianli, is a band of Chinese citizens and their supporters who have been victimized by forced evictions and land grabbing. Sparrow Initiative groups have formed in virtually every province of China to counter the widespread practice of local governments collaborating with developers to grab land for special projects or private development. With no independent judiciary in China, victims of forced evictions have virtually no means for redress of their grievances.First wave of Sparrow Initiative, started in New York, where victims of forced eviction, from Shanghai, Wuhan, Changchun, and Dongguan, protested for months at United Nations headquarters. At the end of the first wave, as a success, many victims in this Sparrow Initiative protest received their ap