Protestors on ‘March to Tibet’ close to India-China border

By Jaideep Sarin
Almora (Uttarakhand), May 15 (IANS) - Tibetan activists in India are readying themselves for another showdown with China before the Beijing Olympics. They are now just 200 km from India’s border with the Tibet Autonomous Region where they plan to “sacrifice lives” in a desperate bid to get back to their “homeland”. However, […]

Tell Coke: No Torch in Tibet!

China’s Security State

Naomi Klein, author of the great book The Shock Doctrine, has an in-depth look at the Chinese security state in Rolling Stone. In the article, Klein looks at how China’s infamous Golden Shield surveillance system has been deployed and implemented as a tool in crackdowns in Tibet.
This is how this Golden Shield will work: Chinese […]

Is this the “Coke Side Of Life”?

Here are some amazing submissions from SFT’s “Is this the ‘Coke Side of Life’” Youtube Contest. Its not too late to participate the deadline is May 19th 2008. For more details on what the contest is about and how to win a Team Tibet Jacket go to: www.studentsforafreetibet.org/cokecontest

A Warm Thank You

We would like to extend a warm thu je che to two Tibetans from New York, Mr. Gyatso and Mr. Tenzin Kalden (Ex-Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey), who have decided to sponsor the March for the next two days. Each donated US$1,300 to cover a full day’s expenses for the […]

Gordon Brown must meet the Dalai Lama at Downing Street

Gordon Brown’s now almost legendary indecision has risen its wavering head again. Back in March he promised to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London. We assumed that meant in Downing Street, just like John Major and Tony Blair before him. Looks like we were wrong!

The plan is now for the meeting to take place at Lambeth Palace so that the meeting can be called a religious one. A meeting at Downing Street would send a much stronger signal to China’s government that their recent activities in Tibet are not acceptable.

Send an email to Gordon Brown at SFTUK.org

SFT Will NOT Protest Paralympic Torch Event

Contrary to what a Vancouver Sun article (”Paralympic torch relay coming to Vancouver,” May 15th, 200 is reporting, local members of Students for a Free Tibet have no intention to protest the Paralympic Torch relay in Vancouver, or any other Paralympic event. The source of this information appears to be a misquoting of an […]

Two Events in Dharamsala

On the evening of May 14, the Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement held an informational session about the March to Tibet in Dharamsala. The Presidents briefed the audience on the current location of the March and how much further was left to the border. The multimedia presentation included two documentaries on the March, entitled “March to […]

A Moment for the Earthquake

Many of us who have traveled to Tibet throughout the years have passed through Chengdu along the way, often staying at the famous Sam’s Guesthouse or one of the other well-known pit stops before flying to Lhasa. While definitely sharing some of the less than favourable aesthetic traits of rapidly growing Chinese cities, Chengdu does have a certain charm and beauty that peeks through, not to mention some excellent cuisine. There is also a large Tibetan Quarter in Chengdu.

For a few moments, we can put politics aside and hope for better times for our Tibetan and Chinese brothers and sisters who have died or lost love ones during this recent earthquake.

Now Tibet is not so far - Tenzin Tsundue