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…for now. I felt like crying (not so surprising for me, I know) as we watched the 2pm shuttle take off for the airport and train station. The van was packed full of some of the most wonderful people in this world heading back to their respective homes in Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, England...

We’re heading into dinner on the fourth night of camp and I’m feeling incredibly pumped about it. The participants represent the strongest, most active leaders for Tibet that Europe has to offer. As I write this, our activists are networking together and making plans on how to work coherently...

Wow. How does one begin to explain what it is like to hear a freedom song being sung by one of the women who wrote the lyrics herself…in prison? Thupten and I were in the office at camp doing some prep for a workshop while Gyaltsen Dolkar and Namdrol Lhamo were moving into their room next door...

A good crew on the ground… some of the folks who flew in from the States: from L to R: Pin (San Jose, CA) and Bill & Leslie (Minneapolis, MN) will be in the kitchen feeding the freedom fighters-in-training and Kathy (Santa Fe, NM) will be gettin’ them up on ropes, challenging what they...

Well, I’m excited about this Action camp… hard to believe it’s the 6th one. Well, we should do more of these so we won’t have to do them at all anymore! The plane ride this way from New York is brutal - flew over with climb trainer David Murphy and neither of us slept much. Then,...

Microsoft’s new Chinese internet portal has banned the words “democracy” and “freedom” from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing’s political censors. Users of the joint-venture portal, formally launched last month, have been blocked...

TIBETANS AND SUPPORTERS SAY RAIL CONTRACT FACILITATES CULTURAL GENOCIDE Montreal – As Bombardier executives and shareholders left their annual general meeting at the Sheraton today, a student hung a Tibetan flag off the hotel as protesters below demanded: “Bombardier: hors du Tibet / out of Tibet�?....

A great team of SFTers including Freya (SFT Campaign Director), Kate (SFT CanadaNational Coordinator) and others from across Canada are in Montreal getting ready to tell Bombardier to cancel their involvement in the China-Tibet railway at their shareholders meeting tomorrow. We’ll be holding a...

Check out this Washington Post article by Robert Kagan questioning the miguided and paternalistic western notion that being nice to China will keep ‘em peaceful. Kagan points out that that it might actually be “the existing international system that the Chinese find provocative.”