My former colleague at Students for a Free Tibet, John Hocevar, had an op-ed in the Hartford Courant earlier this week. It’s a good piece that puts the foundation of a very complicated and still evolving situation in a clear context. Hocevar closes his piece with these lines that I think get to the heart of what I and others outside of Tibet have been asking for over three weeks:

The protests in Tibet continue to spread. When Tibetans rose up in the late 1980s, there was no Internet, no Free Tibet movement, and very little support. Tibetans have no doubt that they will regain their independence. The only questions, really, are how long it will take, and at what price.

And for those of us in the land of the free, what will we do to help them?