Hold Fast

Barbara O’Brien has more on what we can do about the situation in Tibet in a piece on About.com’s Buddhism Blog. Not surprisingly, Barb recommends seeking true information as a predicate for acting in pursuit of freedom and human rights. This is a welcome prescription in an environment where the Western press is often filled […]

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Bernard-Henri Levy has a piece at The New Republic on Tibet that is quite simply brilliant.

Now the government has unleashed the most brutal repression the Autonomous Region has suffered since the one imposed by Hu Jintao when he was provincial party secretary 19 years ago–a few months before the events in Tiananmen Square. That is […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4OOCReeLWo

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This post is a response to new Huffington Post blogger Harold Parmington III’s Western Activism Won’t Help Tibet. I have spent eight years working in the Tibetan independence movement and have blogged extensively about what has been happening in Tibet since March 10th. That said, I would like to share a response from a friend […]

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CQ has a great piece on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s long-time leadership on human rights in China and Tibet. It covers her decades-long efforts to shine a spotlight on China’s human rights record, as well as her efforts to honor those who have fallen in the pursuit of democracy and freedom in China.  I’m not sure […]

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John McCain’s new campaign slogan:
John McCain: The American president Americans have been waiting for.
Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person […]

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The UN Human Rights Council edition:
China remains untouchable by the UN Human Rights Council, with Beijing to emerge unscathed from the current session despite widespread criticism of its crackdown in Tibet, activists and diplomats say.
The Council, which ends its four-week long session on Friday, will begin adopting a series of resolutions on Thursday, none of […]

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The New York Times Letters to the Editor section today has some great ones on Tibet.
To the Editor:
As a Tibetan, I take exception to “He May Be a God, but He’s No Politician,” by Patrick French (Op-Ed, March 22).
Mr. French suggests that if the Dalai Lama renounced parts of Tibet, progress could be achieved. Like […]

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The Observers, a publication of France 24 TV, has documented Yahoo! China and MSN posting banner ads and prominent photos of Tibetans the Chinese government have identified as “most wanted” in connection to recent protests inside Tibet.
Yahoo! China pasted a “most wanted” poster across its homepage today in aid of the police’s witch-hunt […]

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Will Bunch makes a very thoughtful point about the necessity for George W. Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics:
You know, for an administration that like to insist that “all options are on the table” when it comes to dropping bombs on Iraq or Iran, wouldn’t it be nice if for once “all options were on […]

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