This is cool

The Meatrix, a flash animation about the factory farm industry that is one of the definitive examples of viral video, is now available in Tibetan. That’s right, they’ve dubbed The Meatrix into Tibetan.
While really cool, I assume that the makers of this movie have never observed how much Tibetans love sha momo.

Posted on September 26th, 2006 by philo in Video, Photos and Audio

Amnesty International: China failing to keep human rights promises

Amnesty Internationial has released their latest report on human rights in China. The report confirms that China has continued to abuse human rights, deny citizens fair trials, use the death penalty with abandon, and repress information on the internet and in the media.
Amnesty International also makes a list of recommendations for the International Olympic […]

Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by philo in China Watch, Olympics, Political Prisoners

Nations of High Asia Declare Independence in U.S. Congress

Via an email from Jamyang Norbu:

On 19 September 2006, the Declaration of Independence of the Nations of High Asia: Tibet, East Turkistan and Inner Mongolia was read out in a conference room at the Capitol Building of the US Congress in Washington D.C.
The occasion was a two-day conference of the Asian Freedom Coalition attended by […]

Posted on September 21st, 2006 by philo in Events

Movie Night

Join Us!!!!Walb Union 227 @6:30Tuesday, September 19thEveryone is welcomed!Hope to see you there!The Destiney of a people lies in the heart of a boy!

Posted on September 18th, 2006 by SFT IPFW in Global Contributors

NEWS NEWS NEWS!!!

1st Tues of every month 6:30pm = meetings3rd Tuesday of every month 6:30pm = movie nightsNov 4th = Benefit Concert 2006Neff Recital Hall 7-11pm Bands slated to play: Rehab After Party Missing MurdersScotty and the HelpStreetlamps for Spo…

Posted on September 17th, 2006 by SFT IPFW in Global Contributors

China Increases Media Crackdown

Joseph Kahn of the New York Times has a shocking article about the extent to which the Chinese government is restricting the flow of information from the outside world to the people of China and Tibet. The PRC has shifted control of foreign reporting to the New China News Agency, a state-run outfit that both […]

Posted on September 11th, 2006 by philo in China Watch, Multimedia

The Potala Palace, once the home of the Dalai Lama now is a tourist hotspot costing 100yuan a person. But don’t bother taking your camera. No pictures allowed! And out of the 5000 some rooms, you can only walk through about 15 of them, most of which …

Posted on September 9th, 2006 by SFT IPFW in Global Contributors

Fall 2006

Welcome back to IPFW - I hope you all had a great summer. Our current president Sara went to Tibet this summer and will be sharing photos and experiences with us throughout the year. We will be having bi-weekly meetings on Tuesday nights this semeste…

Posted on September 9th, 2006 by SFT IPFW in Global Contributors

China Deleting Communist History from Textbooks

Chairman Hu Jintao’s rule over China has been marked by a regression on the economic liberalization of Jiang Zemin and a crackdown on political and social freedoms. That’s why it comes as a big surprise to see the latest round of Chinese history textbooks for high school students removing or glossing over the vast majority […]

Posted on September 1st, 2006 by philo in China Watch

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