Nancy Scola of Alternet has a great piece on how different political movements are using Facebook as an organizing too. She focuses heavy attention on SFT and how the Facebook giving challenge turned into a great organizing opportunity, as well as one that dramatically increased SFT’s donor base. Here’s an excerpt:
And while that Facebook coalition […]
Under obvious pressure from Chinese authorities, the Nepalese government has given the security forces guarding their side of Mount Everest free reign in dealing with any protests. Apparently, they would rather shoot non-violent protesters then let a media coup occur, as happened last April at Everest Base Camp in Tibet.
More from the AP Article,Nepal authorizes […]
Would you expect anything less than perfection from them? The photos below show two torch runners apparently by themselves along the Marina…hmm…when was that? The second photo shows the Chinese Ambassador giving his triumph speech at the closing ceremonies….held at the airport…outside the gate to the airplane they hastily departed on.
From Xinhua
Two torchbearers with the […]
Some amazing front page, above the fold coverage of yesterday’s action in San Francisco
Paris–Two Tibet independence activists were detained this morning along the torch route after Melanie Raoul (25) and Phil Kirk (23) abseiled off of Pont Au Change, unfurling a banner reading “Pas de Flame au Tibet.” More than 60 pro-Tibet marchers spontaneously gathered round the team on surrounding bridges and streets, chanting free Tibet slogans. The […]
As China tried to rush a hand-selected group of foreign journalists on a carefully-scripted 3-day tour of Tibet, Beijing’s propaganda came crashing down thanks to the bravery of 30 Tibetan monks. What might happen to those monks now in prison is unthinkable, but their sacrifice has blasted away Beijing’s attempted facade of normalcy in Tibet.
Breaking news from the AP:
A group […]
A brilliant Tibetan friend of mine who prefers to remain anonymous passionately responded to the video as follows:
I almost cried when I saw this. I’m speechless right now, about how incredibly powerful this video is. I really don’t know what to say… Tibetans on horseback, unarmed, risking their lives to tear […]
Tim Johnson, the Beijing bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, posted this in-depth article today, looking at how Tibetans risk death to flee over mountain border to Nepal. This is has been the way Tibetans have channeled their frustration and energy for the last fifty years - through pilgrimage to see the Dalai Lama and cultivating […]
Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post has a brilliant article in Slate. It is a must-read that explains how what’s happening in Tibet could lead to doom for the modern Chinese empire:
LIVE FROM LHASA: Shaky cell-phone videos from Tibet foretell doom for the Chinese empire
By Anne Applebaum
Cell-phone photographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and amateur, are […]
In a new blog post titled Tibet in Turmoil, CNN Beijing Bureau Chief, Jaime FlorCruz discusses the difficulties on covering events like this in Tibet:
We’ve always found it extremely difficult to get accurate information and images from the Himalayan region.
Even without chaos, we can’t easily get into Tibet because China strictly controls our travel and […]
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