Tibet Earthquake Update: More Ways You Can Help
Thank you to everyone who has taken action to support the relief efforts in Kyegundo (spoken Jyekundo). It is heartbreaking to hear the news and watch footage from the quake zone and our thoughts and prayers remain with those in the region.
SFT has posted a list of organizations that work in the region and have set-up emergency relief funds: http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=2189
You can find updates on the relief efforts here: http://www.tibetanvillageproject.org/yer.html and here: http://yushuearthquakerelief.com/
We’re also working to educate the international community that the earthquake struck in Chinese-occupied Tibet (as opposed to “Western China” or “Qinghai province bordering Tibet”) and indeed, in a region with strong Tibetan resistance roots. Read SFT’s statement on the quake: http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=2192
Ways that you can help:
1) Write a thank you note to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In her statement of condolences issued yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (a long-time Tibet supporter) acknowledges the impact of the quake on the people of China and Tibet.
Read her statement here: http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=1629
You can send her a message here: http://www.speaker.gov/contact/
2) Call on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to acknowledge the Tibetan victims of the quake.
In glaring contrast to Pelosi’s statement, Secretary Clinton does not once mention Tibet or Tibetans in her brief statement issued yesterday. Instead she expresses her support for all the people of China: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/04/140218.htm
Read SFT’s response here: http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=2193
Help ensure she hears from Tibetans and Americans from across the country urging her to acknowledge that the earthquake took place in Tibet and its victims are overwhelmingly Tibetan. You can send her a message here: http://is.gd/buyXO
3) Call out CNN for not once referring to Tibet in its quake coverage.
While most of the major news networks include some mention of the quake victims being Tibetan or refer to Yushu as a Tibetan area of China, we are shocked by CNN’s omission of any references to Tibet in its quake coverage. Watch Errol Barnnett’s coverage from CNN’s China Quake Desk: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/04/14/barnett.china.quake.update.cnn
Even CCTV, China’s state television network, recognizes Yushu as an overwhelmingly Tibetan area: http://english.cctv.com/program/worldwidewatch/20100415/105559.shtml
You can post comments directly to Errol on his Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/ErrolCNN) and by tweeting @errolcnn.
Please also send your comments to CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?133
4. Read and share Josh Schrei’s Huffington post article on the quake: “To Die with Dignity in your Own Land: Tibet, China, and the Politics of Disaster.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-schrei/to-die-with-dignity-in-yo_b_538840.html (Josh is a long-time Tibet activist and former SFT Board Chair.)
Thank you for taking action at this difficult time,
TenDolkar and all of us here at SFT HQ
Sample message to CNN:
I am writing to express my concern about your Tibet earthquake coverage. The earthquake struck in the Tibetan area of Kyegundo (spoken: Jyekundo), in Tibet’s traditional Kham province. The Chinese government, which occupied Tibet in 1949, refers to the region as the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. Even CCTV, China’s state television network, recognizes Yushu as an overwhelmingly Tibetan area. I call on you to, at a minimum, recognize that the earthquake struck a Tibetan area and that its victims are overwhelmingly Tibetan.
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Recent Earthquake of Tibet on AMAVSYA, MOON was close to SUN and gravitation pull of combined force of SUN AND MOON giving maximum tractions on unstable tectonic plates of Tibet in Eastern directions in the early morning rising SUN and MOON in Tibet April 14, 2010 at 07:49:37 AM at epicentre.
ALSO direction of forces were MAXIMUM at Right agle (sine90=1) to the East to make N-S faults apart and helped with the exaggeration to gravitational force by weight of the Tibetan plateau downwards.
World tectonologists are keeping an eye on the results and waiting for resulted faults due to recent earthquake in Tibet, whether it has made faults wider and /or created new faults? Or unseen underground fracture faults in Tibetan plateau.
as INDIAN plate pushing more and more north and putting pressure on ASIAN plate and Himalaya rises accordingly and also narrowing area of NEPAL and Himalayan region but also that is making Tibetan plateau more and more unstable as Tibet lifts up and Weight of the Tibetan Plateau is fighting with the gravitation pull of the Earth on the Tibetan plateau. BUT on the EARTH NO FORCE WIN the GRAVITATION of the EARTH itself. Making Tibetan plateau more and more unstable to collapse. And is not the matter of if but only a matter of time -WHEN. It may happen any stage. and time is due to happen any stage.
Recent earthquake has Disturbed Himalayan region may cause further quakes. and make the Tibetan plateau more and more UNSTABLE
MAP file are attched: TIBET PLATEAU.JPG
MORE FOR READINGS http://web.missouri.edu/~lium/pdfs/Papers/LiuJGR03.pdf
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 108, NO. 8, 2361, doi: 10.1029/2002JB002248, 2003 Extensional collapse of the Tibetan Plateau: Results of three-dimensional finite element modeling Mian Liu and Youqing Yang Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO 65211 Received 17 October 2002; revised 7 April 2003; accepted 12 May 2003; published 1 August 2003.
Extensional collapse of the Tibetan Plateau: Results of three-dimensional …missouri.edu to show that a plateau in isostatic equilibrium may be gravitationally unstable, and the lateral gradient of the gravitational potential energy tends to spread the plateau capturing many basic features of continental deformation in Tibet and surrounding.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 108, NO. 8, 2361, doi: 10.1029/2002JB002248, 2003 Extensional collapse of the Tibetan Plateau: Results of three-dimensional finite element modeling Mian Liu and Youqing Yang Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO 65211 Received 17 October 2002; revised 7 April 2003; accepted 12 May 2003; published 1 August 2003.
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HAVING SPENT FOUR WEEKS IN TIBET JUST 11 MONTHS AGO,BREAKS MY HEART TO KNOW,WERE SUFFERING AND HARDSHIPS ARE AN EVERYDAY ROUTINE….AND NOW THAT THIS CATASTROPHE HAS OCCURRED,JUST HOW MUCH MORE PAIN CAN POSSIBILY BE ENDURED BY THE TIBETAN PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR. GOD BLESS ALL…
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Are you kidding me? The picture was taken in Qinghai province,China.shit!
@Kee Kong Lee
The picture was taken in the city Kyegundo of Kham province in historic Tibet.
Feel free to read more on the history of Kyegundo:
http://www.rangzen.net/2010/04/25/kyegu-on-my-mind/ or http://www.rangzen.net/2010/05/21/tremors-of-history/
Best.