Hold Fast

Lhadon and Tendor talk about the self-immolation and shooting of a young Tibetan monk, Tape. I’m also now hearing reports that when Tape was shot, he was shouting “Long live the Dalai Lama!” He was carrying a homemade Tibet flag with an image of the Dalai Lama on it — both of those symbols are [...]

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Is there anything the modern Republican Party won’t lie about?

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Students for a Free Tibet just put out this release on the shooting of a monk who had self-immolated in protest in Tibet. Hong Kong – A Tibetan monk was shot by Chinese police today after he set himself on fire at 1:40pm Beijing Time in Ngaba town (Chinese: Aba) in eastern Tibet. According to [...]

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Via Treehugger.com, filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen make an ad for Reality Coalition. This is brilliant.

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NPR: During visits to four monasteries, pictures of the Dalai Lama were openly displayed, a symbol of resistance to Chinese rule. The heightened security, including police presence and increased troop deployments in Tibetan areas, means protests are less likely this year. For one monk, “Cerdan,” whose real name was withheld to protect his identity, openly [...]

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Accountability Now formally launched today. The concept is for some big progressive organizations and top bloggers – people like Jane Hamsher, Markos Moulitsas, Glenn Greenwald, Nate Silver, MoveOn, SEIU, and Color of Change – to put together the resources and energies to primary bad, conservative Democrats. To me there is really nothing more exciting happening [...]

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Episode 12 of “Our Nation” includes a discussion of today’s New York Times front page piece by Edward Wong, which talks about the No Losar movement and the security crackdown on Tibetans by the Chinese government during Tibetan New Year. Wong’s piece is incredibly well written and it does a great job of showing the [...]

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ValleyWag has a post up trying to determine which individual connected to the Obama campaign’s new media team deserves credit for it all as top “web guru.” I can’t imagine a less relevant question. As the post shows, there were many people taking part in many key aspects of the new media operation. It was [...]

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High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blog post by Tibet’s most famous and influential blogger, Woeser, on the Losar moratorium as an active of civil disobedience by Tibetans inside Tibet. It’s titled, “I Took to the Streets, and What I Want is Freedom and Rights.” The whole post is worth a close reading, but [...]

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