China, beyond cliché, is a big country

Just woke up, and found an amazing/hilarious/informative video on China in the Internet Archive (where, btw, anyone can upload their videos or audio FOR FREE!).
It’s was created by someone named Kee Yung and is on his website at: http://www.paris-hongkong.com
“China – Ancient and Refined: In this series of lectures at the Chinese University of Darkness […]

Posted on April 29th, 2005 by sft hq in General

Remembering Marla

Marla Ruzicka, a model for us all, died from a suicide bomb attack, in Baghdad on April 16, 2005. Faiz Ali Salim, CIVIC’s Iraq Country Director, was also killed.

I will let others who knew her better say more. From Kevin Danaher and Medea Benjamin:
“One of the things we can do to honor Marla Ruzicka is […]

Posted on April 20th, 2005 by sft hq in General

Tibetan Disco Party!

Well, with all the ART4TIBET hoopla out at JUICE, you think we in New York would stay quiet…but we didn’t! We had our own fundraiser party, in honor of the departure of dual former grassroots coordinators Thupten and Alma. They are moving to San Francisco soon, and their friends and family gathered in Manhattan to […]

Posted on April 16th, 2005 by sft hq in General

ART4TIBET is comin’ together

Tibet Justice Center’s Chris McKenna came over to say hi and have a beer and stayed on to help hang the whole damn show last night! Chris was the right height to help make it all happen… thanks dude. The silent auction will go like this: there’s a little card next to each piece, with […]

Posted on April 16th, 2005 by cold mtn in General

Han & David Audioblog from da Brothel, SF

Dueling laptops - geekin’ out with David Taylor helpin’ figure out new and better tech tools with which we will drive the Chinese government mad (bwaaa haa ha ha ha!)…

Posted on April 15th, 2005 by sft hq in General

ART4TIBET

Good to be on my favorite block in San Francisco at the JUICE Studio/Gallery (above Kilowatt on 16th St., in the Mission, if ya know). SFT’s good friends Juice, and specifically Brett “Freya’s Hero” Critchlow, have organized ART4TIBET, a benefit artshow for SFT. They’ve solicited incredible artwork from about 40 artists, and there will be […]

Posted on April 14th, 2005 by cold mtn in General

“Cry of the Snow Lion” now on DVD!

This amazing, award-winning documentary on the Tibetan struggle is now available on DVD. While it had a great run in theaters, it is still hard for films such as this to get wider showings. Now you can buy it, and show it to all your friends when they ask “Why do you support Tibet?”, or […]

Posted on April 7th, 2005 by sft hq in General

Miss Tibet Pageant gets BoingBoing’d!

The popular blog Boing Boing has a story today about the Miss Tibet Pageant, with some funny commentary on whether or not Tibetan culture is conservative. Of course, we all know Tibetans love to party!

Posted on April 6th, 2005 by sft hq in General

Two *Must Read* News Articles!

Two very exciting and interesting news stories, one featuring Lhadon, and the other an amazing quote from within China: “The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon”!
From the Financial Times:
The battle has intensified at the Rubin. Protesters have created a parody website purporting to be the Rubin site and attacking the interpretation of the collection as Chinese […]

Posted on April 6th, 2005 by sft hq in General

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