Activists aim to protect antelopes from shawl trade   They hope to stop the animals’ slaughter by persuading weavers to use wool combed from non-endangered goats. By Shankhadeep Choudhury, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer December 26, 2007 NEW DELHI — “Help me, please,” pleads...

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As we said in our last post, China’s propaganda machine deals with domestic and foreign propaganda differently. With the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympics, we should be very aware of how the Chinese government will seek to shape international media coverage of China and Tibet. The China Digital...

Tashi Delek Friends!!! I’m so sorry its been a while since I have written on here, life outside of the careful eyes of the Chinese government has been so freeing and full of activity and excitement. I have been going all around the free world with Lhadon-la and the rest of my friends at SFT Headquarters...

As we continue our exploration of China’s propaganda machine, let’s remember that the Chinese government’s propaganda has two target audiences, with two methods: domestic and foreign. Domestically, the methods include repression, censorship, and cracking down on individuals and media...

Last time we wrote about how China’s propaganda machine seeks to kill competing viewpoints. The internet is a key battleground; the government devotes a huge amount of money and manpower to cleansing “objectionable” content, like information on Tibetan and Taiwanese independence,...

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything but that doesn’t mean nothing’s been happening, in fact, it’s because so much HAS been happening. We just released this video in honour of International Human Rights Day and published the new site www.BeijingWeAreReady.com....

(Part 1 of “China’s Propaganda” is here.) One of the keys to the Chinese government’s propaganda machine is its efforts to stamp out competing voices. The official line (that students killed in Tiananmen Square were bad “counterrevolutionaries,” that Tibetans are grateful...

Over the next week, watch this blog for posts exploring China’s propaganda tools and methods, including of course China’s biggest propaganda event since Mao’s mass movements: the Beijing Olympics. Today, we turn our attention to the Chinese government’s ironic attempt to defend...