Great news!
All three activists who were detained by the Beijing police have been released after two hours of questioning. They have arrived safely in Hong Kong (I’m talking with them on a conference call now) and are currently handling media requests.
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the early press and blog coverage of […]
Hong Kong – Tibet activists scaled the façade of Beijing’s Central Railway Station and unfurled a banner reading “China’s Tibet Railway: Designed to Destroy.” The protest was held on the eve of the launch of the new rail line that will link, for the first time, Beijing and Lhasa. Tibetans fear that the Chinese Government […]
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On July 1st China will officially launch the China-Tibet railway, connecting Lhasa to Beijing for the first time by rail. Students for a Free Tibet and countless other Tibet support groups have worked hard to oppose the construction of this line and Bombardier’s delivery of luxury rail cars. Now that we’re approaching […]
For your reading pleasure, here’s the press release that SFT sent out at the end of FT!AC VIII.
FREE TIBET! ACTION CAMP IN EUROPE CONCLUDES
[SFT] June 27, 2006
DUSSELDORF - Students for a Free Tibet seventh annual Free Tibet! Action Camp VII came to a climactic ending on yesterday evening, with participants enacting complex and dramatic […]
Here is the french team from the European Free Tibet ! Action Camp
A short sharing of our witnesses before we go to the bonfire.
During this week we learned how to create and empower a chapter so that we can really create a strong network of activists in France.
We are glad to meet activists and […]
Guest post authored by FT!AC VII participant Pema Yoko from the UK.
The path the Tibetan government has ruled is a non-violent one, so therefore we must seek knowledge and try to practice these, however, slow or frustrating it can be. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, stresses the importance of education, as this is the key […]
You can see some photos on the right, but more Free Tibet! Action Camp photos on my flickr feed. Enjoy!
I’ve been in Germany for SFT’s Free Tibet! Action Camp VII since Friday morning and now is the first time I’m having a moment where I can sit down and reflect about all that’s going on around me.
As I said, I arrived with five other staff and volunteers from New York Friday morning. We […]
It’s never good when protestors almost out number your shareholders and corproate executives at the company’s Annual General Meeting. Well, this was the situation HDI/Continental Minterals found itself in yesterday when Tibetans and their supporters hijacked the AGM to protest the company’s mine activities in Tibet. Below is a short exerpt from SFT UBC president […]
Reports Without Borders has been doing some testing of the various Beijing-authorized search engines. While the results were mostly expected, there was some surprise with just how censored Yahoo.cn is - even worse than tha “homegrown” baidu.com:
“The press freedom organisation is particularly shocked by the scale of censorship on yahoo.cn. first because the search results […]