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POPSFree TIBET! 'nuff said. Kathmandu cops kick and beat Tibetan protesters after locking them in a police van. The prisoners were accused of storming the Chinese consular office in the Nepalese capital.
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POPSFree Tibet TV Please tune in to Students for a Free Tibet's new video channel broadcasting throughout the worldwide uprising for Tibetan freedom during the Beijing Olympics: Free Tibet 2008 Television, or FT08.TV. FT08.TV is SFT's new online video channel, designed as a one-stop news and analysis resource for Tibetans, Tibet supporters, and others concerned about human rights connected to (and during) the Beijing Olympics. The channel is filled with must-see on-demand content, including inspiring Tibet activist video-profiles, reports about protests in Beijing and beyond, video-blogs, and much more. FT08.TV is the video companion to www.FreeTibet2008.org
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POPSSongs For Tibet In spite of the Unity that is sought ("One World, One Dream") at the Beijing Olypmics, it can be easy to forget the now subjugate region of Tibet. Ironic, isn't?
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POPSthe conundrum on one hand, it's the olympics, which is awesome on the other hand, china is pretty heinous sometimes. this site keeps track of what's going on while everyone's eyes are focused on beijing
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POPSOlympics protests Quite a spectacle--Martial law and fireworks, fabulous opening ceremonies and billy clubs on heads...Saw Preznit Bush tryin to ive the Women's softball team coch some advice or just commenting, slumming, whatever...the poor guy was holdin his nose and turnin away from Chimpy, who thinks he's cool in his baseball cap and failed experience as a team owner. Bush looked embarrassed and Coach looked disgusted...
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POPSHis Holiness The Dalai Lama His efforts to bring about a peaceful solution to Sino-Tibetan conflict were thwarted by Bejing’s ruthless policy in Eastern Tibet, which ignited a popular uprising and resistance.
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POPSIt's Too Hot For Them Dawgs "One might observe that when it comes to important issues like human rights in Tibet, Chinese leaders don’t seem to care what the rest of the world thinks, yet when it comes to dietary niceties, they kowtow to the most irrational foreign prejudice."
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POPScandle4tibet The world's greatest LIGHT PROTEST will take place on August 7th 2008 - one day before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. At least 100 million people from all over the world will light a candle and say YES for freedom in Tibet! The Campaign started on facebook from the desktop of David Califa, 52, a retired private individual with an investment banking background, from Ramat Hasharon, Israel. Mr. Califa has been financing it with his own private funds. "Candle for Tibet" has quickly developed into a global movement which operates from a multilingual (25 languages, all translated by volunteers) web site with its own social network alongside.
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POPSChina Using Olympics As ‘Pretext’ For Crackdown: Amnesty
“Authorities have used the Olympic Games as a pretext to continue and in some respects, intensify existing policies and practices that have led to serious and widespread violations of human rights,” the report added. It listed a series of recommendations urging China to: * release all prisoners of conscience; * stop police arbitrarily detaining activists and dissenters; * impose a moratorium on the death penalty; * allow complete media freedom; and * account for those killed or detained in Tibet. “It is very disturbing that Chinese authorities have indulged in such a big crackdown on the activists,” Mark Allison, China researcher for Amnesty, told AFP. “These are people who represent many many more people in China.” Officials were also extending the use of punitive administrative detention, notably of activists and petitioners as well as beggars and peddlers, Amnesty said. In January, Beijing police launched a campaign against “illegal activ
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POPSThe Dalai Lama's Dilemma "The Dalai Lama's comments came as a dampener for organizers of the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement, who had been hoping that if the Dalai Lama could not lend his support to the march, he would at least refrain from opposing it. Four of the five organizations involved in the movement oppose the Dalai Lama's "middle path" approach of seeking dialogue with the Chinese leadership in search of a "genuine" autonomy for Tibet. They want direct action to seek independence from China, and they want to it now, while the world is watching China as it prepares to host the Olympic Games this summer".
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