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 […]
China’s Olympic torch faced a new wave of creative and media catching protests upon it’s arrival in Australia. Overnight the words “Don’t Torch Tibet” were beamed onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a national landmark, and this morning two Tibet activists were arrested for attempting to unfurl a banner on the bridge.
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Today at the UN Building in Bangkok. a peaceful demonstration against the presence of the Olympic Torch was held.
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Tibetans and supporters protested Coca-Cola’s annual shareholder meeting this morning, calling on the company’s executives to use their influence to pressure the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to immediately withdraw Tibet from China’s Olympic torch relay route. Tibetans and human rights activists fear that allowing the Olympic torch to be run through Tibet will heighten tensions leading to an increased crackdown by Chinese authorities.
The Chinese government and the International Olympic Committee are reportedly in crisis talks, after they massively underestimated worldwide ourtage over Beijing’s repressive rule in Tibet. This report is from the Financial Times:
Beijing officials are to hold urgent talks with senior members of the Olympic movement about the torch relay, as concern grows among International Olympic […]
This is a photo of the Chinese government’s Olympic torch in London, surrounded by a group of identically-dressed Chinese guards (the only torch relay I know of ever that had to be guarded by stormtroopers). In the distance, you see police blocking pro-Tibet protesters.
The Chinese government calls its torch a “Torch of Harmony.” […]
Four Tibet independence activists were detained this morning after two activists abseiled off Westminster Bridge and unfurled a 74 square meter protest banner reading, “One World, One Dream: Free Tibet 2008,” mocking China’s Olympics slogan “One World, One Dream.” The action took place on the eve of the controversial arrival of China’s Olympic torch relay […]
And now for something completely different…
Parachutisme film “Pour un tibet libre”
un saut en parachute pour replacer symboliquement le drapeau là où il devrait être… à 3.650 mètres, l’altitude de la capitale du Tibet “Lhassa”
Translation: A parachute jump to symbolically put the flag where it should be … At 3,650 metres altitude in the capital of […]
Details are emerging about fresh protests in Lhasa today. According to Radio Free Asia:
Witnesses in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, say fresh protests erupted there on Saturday afternoon despite a massive Chinese police and paramilitary presence there.
Witnesses told RFA’s Tibetan service that several hundred Tibetans rallied around 2 p.m. on March 29, beginning in the area […]
The Chinese government’s relentless efforts to silence Tibetans and legitimize its control over Tibet are clearly not limited to Tibet and China. The Chinese government’s long, flexed arm, extents to India, Nepal, and even Greece. Below are a few images of members of Students for a Free Tibet and the Tibetan Youth Association of Europe […]
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