Bhaichung pulls out of Torch relay...
Day 22 Update from the March...
Today the marchers walked from Vishwas to Kurukshetra covering a distance of about 27 kilometers. The marchers were warmly welcomed at the Shasri Devi Ashram in Kurukshetra, where they spent the night.
“Flip” That Problem...
Unlike the Gaza Strip or Baghdad, Tibet has only the occasional journalist passing through, and right now there’s no one there. If we want news footage of events in Tibet to reach the world we have to get it ourselves. Lugging around professional equipment or even a camcorder would be asking for trouble...
Financial Times endorses boycott of Olym...
The Financial Times has endorsed boycotting the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony to send a message to Beijing that its brutal crackdown in Tibet is unacceptable to the world community: Sanctions can work in the right circumstances. The sporting boycott and financial sanctions applied to apartheid South...
NO TORCH IN TIBET!...
SFT has launched a new flash animation video to expose the true face of the Chinese government as it tries to hide behind its glossy Olympics propaganda. Click here to view the Torch flash animation video. Click here to send it to your friends and post it on your blog or website. Click here to add the...
Delhi Events for the Global Day of Actio...
Tibetans gathered in large numbers to commemorate MONDAYS IN BLACK at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. They were joined in their protest by India Tibet Friendship Society who were on a day’s hunger strike. Among the supporters to address the public were Naval Kishore, former member of Indian Parliament...
Tibetan exiles barred from handing prote...
AP March 31, 2008 NEW DELHI: Indian police barred several hundred Tibetans from marching Monday to the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, where they planned to submit more than 1.4 million names from an Internet petition calling on China to act with restraint in Tibet.   About 300 demonstrators gathered...
Chinese Nationalism & Tibet...
From the great Hold Fast blog: Jim Yardley has an article in today’s International Herald Tribune about the relationship between Chinese nationalism and the crackdown in Tibet. “We couldn’t believe our government was being so weak and cowardly,” said Meng, 52, a mother and office worker, who...
Activist Media Porn...
From the great Hold Fast blog: Above: Three kick ass activists who don’t have time to smile The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest national paper, had a huge, front page, above the fold article yesterday on three Canadian women who have been at the forefront of the Tibetan independence movement through...
Call for your opinion (NY Times)...
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is writing his next column about the Tibetan protests.  He is calling for opinions, especially Chinese opinions.  Tibetans should give him their opinions too: I think I’m going to write my next column about China, in the wake of the Tibetan protests, and I’d...

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