Tuesday, September 27th was an unforgettable day for SFT. His Holiness the Dalai Lama granted an audience to New York-area Tibet Support Groups including SFT, USTC (United States Tibet Committee), TJC (Tibet Justice Center) and others. His Holiness spoke for a good fifteen minutes, during which he...

A brilliant opinion piece in the LA Times by writer Pico Iyer. These are important words for anyone - from Larry King to Paul Martin to wealthy western ‘Tibetan’ Buddhists - who claim to admire the Dalai Lama. Just an excerpt: How to try to preserve Tibet after half a century of occupation...

I woke up real early this morning, hoping to be the first one to arrive at work. But I was disappointed when I saw that Matt, Lhadon and Han were already there, hard at work printing handouts and preparing placards. Chinese Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong was going to give a speech at the Asia Society and we...

Reporters Without Borders has released what the AP calls an “ABC guide of tips for bloggers and dissidents to sneak past Internet censors in countries from China to Iran” Check out the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents. Hopefully the rat bastards at Yahoo! won’t go reading...

From Jeff Langlois, SFT Canada Board Member: Tonight’s action was a resounding success, Kate and the rest of SFT Vancouver made a fantastic effort this past week and managed to pull together a great demo and action. We had about a hundred supporters in addition to many Falun Gong and Tiawanese...

Along with UK-based Free Tibet Campaign, SFT UK took the lead in a high-profile political theater protest against Canadian company Bombardier at the “InfraRail 2005 Exhibition,” a railway industry trade show that took place in Manchester on Thursday. SFTers everywhere have been targeting...

Thursday was a remarkable day of action for SFT. Over one hundred Tibetans rallied outside the United Nations alongside activists for East Turkestan, the Falun Gong, Togo, Ethiopia, and Kashmir. After five hours of chanting, shouting, singing, and speeches (including a powerful one by Uyghur political...

One odd bit from yesterday’s activities at the Waldorf was the presence of a Chinese military style marching band as part of the welcoming committee for Hu Jintao. To put it bluntly, they were horrible — though it was curious to see them there to welcome President Bush’s arrival too....

Okay *this* is just too much: A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered. Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and...

I’m at the corner of 53rd and Park. We’re all sitting around wondering “Where’s Hu?” and the only answer is “Hu Knows?”. He was supposed to be here at 11am, but as of 4pm (when I finally showed up) he is still in transit, or maybe he’s taking a nap somewhere. In...