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...
Amnesty International: China failing to ...
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...
Nations of High Asia Declare Independenc...
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...
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!
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 SpotlightsNew and exciting things happening this year....
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...
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 are bare or have the walls covered. Makes you wonder...
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 semester - we will let you know the room number when we...
China Deleting Communist History from Te...
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...