Tibet Will Be Free (the SFT Blog!)
Want more day-to-day insight into what it takes to work towards a Free Tibet? This is the place (the SFT Weblog!) you'll find it! Read, watch, and listen as we think, work, and act.
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A Proposal to Establish A Tibetan Language Primary School in Xining
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Spotlight Film: Leaving Fear Behind
Leaving Fear Behind is a bold documentary film made by Tibetans inside Tibet. It is a unprecedented tool to raise awareness about the situation inside Tibet and inspire people to take action. Organize a screening and help amplify the voices of Tibetans inside Tibet. Take action for the releas ...
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Is it A Hotel or Is it A Temple? by Woeser
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International Human Rights Day: December 10th
This December 10th, show your solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet by organizing an activity in your local chapter calling for human rights in Tibet. Tibet support groups around the world are planing creative actions on this important day. Make your mark and show your chapter's commitment to seei ...
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UN Panel Orders Inquiry into Chinas Repression in Tibet
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Xeni Jardin interviews Lhadon and Tendor on Boing Boing TV about the Special Meeting in Dharamsala
SFTs Lhadon and Tendor are in Dharamsala, India for the Special Meeting convened by the Dalai Lama to discuss the future direction of the Tibet movement. Xeni Jardin interviews them in a special episode of Boing Boing TV. For updates on the meeting, check out Phayul.com and for commentary from Tibet ...
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Tibetans attend Special Meeting in Dharamsala on Tibets Future
A Special Meeting convened by the Dalai Lama to discuss the future course of the Tibet movement is underway in Dharamsala, India. Over 500 Tibetans are in attendence for this unprecendented meeting, which runs from Nov 17-22. Many are also offering their opinions, analysis and views online, includin ...
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An Open Letter by Tibetan Students in the UK
Mao Tsetung once said, Where there is oppression, there is resistance and in 2008, Tibetans risked everything to speak out. The Uprising in March has been the strongest message to the outside world from Tibetans inside Tibet since 1959. The special meeting in Dharamsala from November 17th - 22nd tha ...
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Letters to Norzin Wangmo by Jamyang Kyi
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Festival of Tibet,27th and 28th November 2008
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Justice Too Long Delayed: A Humble Injis Take on the Dharamsala Meetings
by Josh Schrei I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was well timed. For years now I have heard the word Wait! This Wait has almost always meant Never. We must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied. Martin Luther King, writing from jail in Birmingham Alabama, 1 ...
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Zhu Weiqun Receives a Saucy Reception from Tibetans in London
London 14/11/08 Tibetans and supporters gave Zhu Weiqun, Vice-Minister of the United Front Work Department which oversees Sino-Tibetan talks, a noisy reception when he visited London. Having visited the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) earlier this morning, Zhu Weiqun headed for Chatham Hou ...
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MIDDLE WAY METAMORPHOSIS
In the final analysis I think the proponents of the Middle Way are looking at developments in a glass half-empty and not in a glass half-full sort of way. They are making a big mistake by emphasizing only the negotiation and the autonomy component...
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RANGZEN: THE CASE FOR INDEPENDENT TIBET (2008 edition)
The military stranglehold on Lhasa by day is maintained with one chilling addition -- snipers are installed on rooftops around the city's most holy site, the Jokhang Temple, ready to train their guns on the hundreds of Tibetan pilgrims praying in Barkhor Square below.
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Put Rangtsen Back on the agenda again Tsewang Norbu
In the light of these pronouncements from China, the chance to reach at a negotiated settlement of the Tibet Issue has completely disappeared again. Given such developments, the Special Meeting of the Tibetans in the free world, where even some Tibetans from the occupied Tibet might be present, beco ...
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An Open Letter to Barack Obama
From Alice Walker November 5, 2008 Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so many ...
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Take Action: Send a message to President-elect Barack Obama!
Photo from President-elect Barack Obama's campaign website All of us here at Students for a Free Tibet congratulate Barack Obama on being elected President of the United States and we ask that he continue to show strong support for the Tibetan people and help push for an end to China's occupa ...
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They - by Jamyang Kyi
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Making The November Meeting Work
October has been a stressful month. First there was the news of His Holiness being taken to Ganga Ram hospital. I overheard it when my mother-in-law was listening to Radio Free Asia (RFA) in the kitchen.
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Students for a Free Tibet UK Conference 2008
Leeds: Leeds University was the venue for our annual conference, a chance for Tibet supporters and campaigners of all ages and levels of experience to meet, exchange ideas and engage with a variety of workshops. A weekend packed with activities was enjoyed by delegates from universities acro ...
Tibet Will Be Free (the SFT Blog!)
