Watch SFT’s newest video, a roundup of SFT’s direct actions in Beijing and around the world, including footage of the high profile actions at Mt. Everest Base Camp, Great Wall, Golden Gate Bridge, Tiananmen Square, the Olympic Park and many more. In the end 70 people, including 3 Tibetans took part in 9 creative and bold non-violent direct actions from August 7-22 in Beijing to amplify the voices of Tibetans inside Tibet, who braved everything this past Spring to speak out for human rights and freedom. On the eve of the opening ceremonies, Tibetans and their supporters organized high profile actions in solidarity with Tibet in cities worldwide.
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STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET CANADA’S
EAST COAST CONFERENCE NOV 14-16, 2008.
Students for a Free Tibet Canada will be holding our annual Eastern Regional Leadership Conference from November 14-16 in Toronto, ON.
SFT’S NEW OLYMPICS VIDEO CHANNEL: www.FT08.TV
SFT’s new online video/TV channel is up and running, and filled with lots of must-see on-demand content, including inspiring Tibet activist video-profiles, action reports, video-blogs, and more. We’re also airing a nightly Windhorse Report live from London – our roundup of reports from Beijing and around the world during the Olympics, with breaking news about protests, call-in interviews with news-making activists, episodes of SFT-TV (the efforts of SFT’s grassroots members), and info and analysis about the situation on the ground in Tibet. Please, spread the word and watch FT08.TV now!
CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW: www.FreeTibet2008.org
With the opening of the Beijing Olympics less than a month away, SFT HQ is stepping up our Olympic campaign efforts. To ensure that our supporters are kept up to date with news, analysis, and ways to participate in creative, strategic and effective actions for Tibet leading up to and during the Games, we are excited to launch SFT’s Olympics website – www.FreeTibet2008.org - and a powerful 4-minute Olympics campaign video about the power we have – as Tibetans, supporters, and people of conscience – to make history for Tibet at this crucial time.
On June 18th, Tibetans and supporters worldwide will participate in a Global Day of Action to protest the Olympic torch in Tibet, speak out against China’s ongoing crackdown, and demand immediate press access to Tibet. Please join us!
For more than a year, Tibetans and supporters have vigorously demanded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) do the right thing and cancel the torch relay through Tibet. But the IOC has stubbornly refused to heed our calls and hasn’t even pressed Beijing on the basic commitment it made to press freedom in its bid for the Olympic Games.
After leading a press conference in Athens two days ago, SFT’s Executive Director Lhadon Tethong went to find IOC President Jaques Rogge. She was there to take him up on the promise of a meeting that he made with SFT’s Tendor last month. A promise that wasn’t kept.
Here, in Lhadon’s own words, is what happened:
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“When the clouds part, you can see Tibet on the horizon,” said Ven. Ngawang Woeber.
He dipped his face in the river at Baanspatan, and joked that monks don’t need to use soap because they have renounced vanity. A couple of hours later, Ven. Woeber was arrested. A former political prisoner, he is the president [...]
Woeser, the well-known Tibetan writer/blogger and political dissident, is under intense cyber-attack.
On the evening of May 27th (Beijing time), Woeser discovered that her Skype account and email address were both apparently accessed and her Skype ID hijacked. Contacts of Woeser in China and Tibet have reported that people are impersonating her and contacting them. Woeser [...]
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.
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.
