The Russian Revolution of 1917 sparked off a revolution in the way the function of entertainment and art, especially cinema, changed to become a powerful tool of social and political transformation.

A hurried farewell to Lhasa, Where the fear is in your breathing, in the beating of your heart, In the silence when you want to speak but don’t, In the catch in your throat.

The Beijing 2008 Olympics closed the way it opened - with SFT protestors making sure that the Tibet issue was very kept very much alive midst of this “celebration”. During the closing ceremony itself, one could not help notice the disconnect between the CCP officials and the Chinese people....

The Times Online in the UK reports that famed Tibetan writer and blogger Woeser was detained in Lhasa for taking pictures. She has since been released. Here’s the report from the Times: Tibet’s most famous woman writer and blogger has been questioned by police for eight hours, accused of taking...

Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been on the war path about New York Times columnist Nick Kristof’s writings on Tibet and China for quite a long time. In my view, Kristof has taken a remarkable arrogant stance on Sino-Tibetan relations that reveal a startling lack of moral fortitude....

   August 24, 2008 London: The Chinese embassy in London was the backdrop for a strong statement of commitment from the Tibetan community in Britain and their supporters. As the closing ceremony of the Olympics commenced in Beijing, the gathered crowd listened to speeches by Tenzin Dorjee,...

Last week, eight American citizens were detained in Beijing for participating in pro-Tibetan sovereignty protests near the site of the 2008 Olympics, with Students for a Free Tibet. Two videobloggers who documented those protest and guerrilla art installations evaded detention, and spoke to Boing Boing...

As the Beijing Olympics comes to a close there are probably not many people on this planet who have not heard, read about, or witnessed the series of lies, deceptions, scams, manipulations, control-operations....

August 24, 2008 Contacts: In Asia: Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director, and Kate Woznow, Campaigns Director, +66 846 517 681 or +1 917 289 0219 China Deports Eight American Tibet Supporters During Olympics Closing CeremonySFT Calls for Immediate Release of Tibetan-German and Briton Still Jailed ***Photos...

On the 23th of august, two activists (one of SFT France) went on the roof just boarding the Chinese ambassy to hang a banner of 5 X 2.5 m saying "China Lies, Tibetans Die". We had a very good media coverage : several TV Channels and newspapers talked about that. Three journalists and one...