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 […]
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
Jamyang Norbu has an op-ed up on Phayul that says what I’ve been thinking since the national uprising started in mid-March inside Tibet:
No amount of begging, pleading or further negotiating with Beijing will bring any resolution, even a little improvement, to this crisis. I think that Dharamshala has one real option left to deal with […]
Early Wednesday, Beijing time, a spokesman for China’s Olympic Committee issued an ominous threat: “The command centre has given its order for the final assault tomorrow.” He was referring to China’s climbing team that took the Olympic torch to the summit of Mt. Everest early Thursday. But never before has the mountaineering term ‘assault’ been used more appropriately. China’s assault on Mount Everest – sacred Mount Chomolungma to Tibetans – is in fact an assault on Tibet and the Tibetan people, not to mention the Olympic ideals.
Over the last couple weeks, two very significant stories were reported by Radio Free Asia that somehow fell through the cracks – at least as far as being reported here on the SFT blog. On April 23rd, it was reported that Chinese authorities in Tibet are planning a massive Chinese-only “patriotic rally” in the courtyard […]
Apparently the International Olympic Committee is so afraid that some of the world’s top athletes may, after winning gold, silver, or bronze in their events, take the opportunity to express their views on China’s military occupation of Tibet. As such, the IOC has decided to specifically ban such displays now, in advance of the Games […]
W.G. Huang has a very interesting, thoughtful op-ed in the Chicago Tribune. Titled “Without Rights, Pride Is Empty,” Huang confronts Chinese nationalism in the absence of rights for protest and dissent.
Demonstrations by human-rights activists and pro-Tibetan groups outraged the Chinese government. In response, the news media controlled by the Beijing regime stirred up a nationalist […]
Despite the deportation of SFT activists from Hong Kong earlier this week and the Chinese government’s attempts to keep protesters away, several people, including a 21-year-old Chinese student from Hong Kong University, took part in pro-Tibet and pro-democracy demonstrations along the route this morning.
Everyone here at SFT HQ gives a big shout-out to Christina Chan […]
Do you think its ludicrous that an international brand with the prestige and recognition of Coca Cola is sponsoring the Olympic torch run through Tibet at a time when Tibetans are protesting and dying and the Chinese government is putting the entire nation on lockdown? So do we. Show us exactly how you feel. SFT […]
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reports that the Chinese government has begun to hand down public sentences for Tibetans “tried” in connection to protests in Lhasa.
China’s state media today morning announced that 17 Tibetans have been sentenced between three years to life imprisonment in connection with the Lhasa revolt in March 2008. […]
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