Earlier this year, SFT rolled out a new set of fundraising merchandise, including some new beautifully printed shirts. All of these goods are made sweatshop-free and definitely NOT made in China. They are also made with high quality materials, so their fashionable looks will last. foo I personally think...

Paris, FranceWe arrived at the Embassy at 3pm with our "China would you shoot us too banner and Tibetan flags. After 20 minutes of demonstrating, between 10 and 15 police showed up in 3 police vans, detained the small group of us (we were outnumbered by the police) and took us to the police station...

New York City comptroller William Thompson has filed resolutions as a shareholder of Google and Yahoo demanding the companies craft policies that prevent them from assisting in internet censorship, particularly at the request of China. Thompson controls the New York City pension fund, which has large...

Via Jeremy Golkorn of the China media blog Danwei, Bruce Humes has a clear-cut example of how censorship manifests itself in published articles in China. I recently wrote about a New York Times travel section piece by Joshua Kurlantzick. It turns out that Kurlantzick’s article is being republished...

Yvonne, Tiananmen Square Originally uploaded by PhiloTBG. This is a picture of University of California, Santa Barbara SFTer Yvonne in Tiananmen Square, in front of the clock that counts down to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. She is holding a sign that says “China Stop the Genocide in Tibet.”...

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This is an article written by a young Tibetan living in exile. It’s a thoughtful, personal account of where Tibetans stand today in the face of China’s continued efforts to overwhelm Tibet’s people and culture amidst a sea of Chinese settlers. When Victor Hugo, the great writer was...

Sunday’s New York Times Travel Section included a long piece by The New Republic’s Joshua Kurlantzick titled “Tibet, Now.” Kurlantzick’s frustrating piece skirts between horrible and decent coverage of Tibet and though it rarely moves into either category, it is a solid...

[Dec 10, Vancouver] On a day when the elements weren’t particularly on the co-operative side, members of the Students for a Free Tibet, Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) and Amnesty International pitched information tables and kiosks in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery to commemorate the 58th International...

China’s reforms around the Beijing Olympics are never what they seem. Unfortunately one quiver towards liberalization and China secures blaring headlines about that give the false impression of actual reform. Take the BBC’s “China relaxes rules for reporters,” for instance. China...