The New York Times has a good article on how effective the Tibetan independence movement, lead by Students for a Free Tibet, has been at creating the sort of public relations narrative that has drawn global interest and support for Tibet in recent months. The ironic thing in this is that the Beijing Olympics were and are meant to be a public relations coup for the Chinese government. The response by groups like SFT has developed out of the need to communicate better and more effectively than China. So far, it looks like SFT has succeeded.