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.
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 Committee on what to demand of China in the leadup to the Beijing Games.
Amnesty International reminds the IOC of its own expectation that human rights in China would improve as a result of Beijing being awarded the Olympics and of its encouragement to international human rights organizations, like Amnesty International, to monitor such progress. (58) In line with these commitments, Amnesty International urges the IOC to exert influence on the Chinese authorities to secure the above reforms before August 2008. In particular, Amnesty International urges the IOC and the Olympic movement to put pressure on the Chinese authorities to:
o release all prisoners of conscience, including the individuals highlighted in this report;
o accelerate and build on efforts towards abolishing the death penalty in line with the above recommendations;
o abandon plans to use “Re-education through Labour” to “clean-up” Beijing in the run-up to the Olympics and to abolish the system altogether;
o give international human rights organizations unfettered access to China for research purposes so that they can better monitor China’s progress in human rights and discuss issues of concern with Chinese officials and human rights defenders;
o implement legal reforms to ensure protection of human rights defenders in China, including reforms to the Criminal Law as detailed above;
o repeal all laws and regulations aimed at restricting the free and legitimate flow of information online.
The whole report is incredibly damning and I recommend it for anyone interested in understanding the full scope of China’s human rights abuses.
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 Temtsiltu Shobtsood, Chairman, Inner Mongolian People’s Party; Sonam Wangdu, Chairman, US Tibet Committee; Wei Jingsheng, Chairman, Overseas Chinese Democracy Foundation; Dr. Wen-Yen Chen, Executive Director, Formosa Association for Public Affairs; Jamyang Norbu, spokesperson, Rangzen Alliance; Alim Seytoff, General Secretary, Uyghur American Association; Huang Ciping, Secretary-General, Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition; Ye Ning, Chairman, Free China Movement Foundation; Dr. Quan Q. Nguyen, Chairman, International Committee For Freedom and Human Rights in Vietnam, and a number of other delegates. Member of the US Congress, Congressional staffers and media representatives attended the conference in its concluding session on the afternoon of the 19th.
Dolkun Isa, Secretary General, World Uyghur Congress, who flew into Washington DC, from Germany was unable to attend the conference. It is believed that because of his courageous struggle for Uyghur independence, Beijing had pressured the US government to view him as undesirable. Nevertheless the conference successfully took place and after two days of deliberation the delegates unanimously agreed to form the Asian Democracy Alliance, to promote freedom, democracy and human right in Asian nations presently under repressive and non-democratic rule.
The conference was addressed by Congressman Frank Wolf who spoke at length on the problems faced by Mongolia, East Turkistan and Tibet. He spoke of his visit to Tibet and how Chinese immigration was threatening the very existence of the Tibetan people. The Congressman said it was good that all the various groups were now working together. He said the Tibetans had kept up a unified front but others should forgo ego and internal differences to work together to defeat the common enemy, Communist China, which he said he was confident would fall in the next few years.
The declaration of independence was signed by the representatives of Inner Mongolia, Tibet and East Turkistan, and was also signed by the Taiwan representative since the declaration made a major reference to the threat that independent and democratic Taiwan was facing from China. All other delegates, including the Chinese, unanimously supported the declaration and the aspirations of the people of these nations for freedom and independence.
After the conference the various leaders and delegates spoke to the media. Leading Chinese dissident, and “Father of Chinese Democracy�, Wei Jingsheng, said that the Declaration of Independence was timely and important now since Beijing had clearly demonstrated by its hard-line rejection of the Dalai Lama’s call for dialogue that it was not open to any compromise solution to the Tibet issue, or even a genuine discussion on the matter.
Go below the fold for the full text of the declaration.
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Walb Union 227 @6:30
Tuesday, September 19th
Everyone is welcomed!
Hope to see you there!
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1st Tues of every month 6:30pm = meetings3rd Tuesday of every month 6:30pm = movie nights
Nov 4th = Benefit Concert 2006
Neff Recital Hall 7-11pm
Bands slated to play:
Rehab After Party
Missing Murders
Scotty and the Help
Streetlamps for Spotlights
New and exciting things happening this year. Stay tuned. Tibet will be free~
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