TASC COMMUNITY NEWS...
The recent crackdown in Tibet has led to Tibetan Associations all over the USA and Canada in continuing protests against the Chinese. Tibetans in India and Nepal are also very actively engaged in protests.
See:
Day 50 of continued protest in New York
It is our duty as Tibetans in Southern California to continue our protests here in Southern California.
Thus in keeping with the Tibetan Solidarity Committee's actions, we are holding a protest on May 10th, Saturday from 1 pm to 3pm outside the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles. In addition, we will hold a monthly protest every 10th of the month until the Olympics in remembrance of the 10th of March.
We also request Monks and Buddhist center supporters to join in.
WHEN: Sat. May 10. 1 pm to 3 pm
WHERE: Chinese Consulate. 443 SHATTO PLACE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90020
Beijing Olympic Protests Across the WorldFor latest updated Beijing Olympic Protests please visit the following websites:
LA Beijing Olympic Protests at http://ktla.trb.com/ . Click on "Beijing Olympic Protests Across the World" in the news video list.
SEE AND HEAR:
House Speaker NANCY PELOSI'S speech in Dharamsala, India
His Holiness THE DALAI LAMA meets with the media - audio - 16 March 2008
Venue: Main Temple, Dharamsala, India
His Holiness the THE DALAI LAMA meets with the media - video - 16 March 2008
Venue: Main Temple, Dharamsala, India
Students for a Free Tibet encourage drivers to "HONK FOR TIBET" from a Minneapolis bridge - Todd Melby on PRX
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Photos and Video of Tibetans protesting the China Crackdown in Los Angeles - March 2008
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ARTICLES BY REBECCA NOVICK, Executive Producer of The Tibet Connection
These Days in Dharamsala - March 2008
We're Only Human: Cell Phone Conversations Give Dramatic Accounts of the Reality on the Ground in Tibet Huffington Post article, March 2008
China Terrorizes Tibet - NY Times Editorial
Tibet -- Independent Country or Part of China?
Images of March 2008 Revolt in Tibet
Map courtesy of International Campaign for Tibet - click for enlargement
Four Objectives:
- Support immediate dispatch of a fact finding representatives to monitor the situation inside Tibet.
- Intervene to stop further bloodbath in Tibet and demand immediate release of all those arrested.
- Urge the Chinese leadership to lift the ban on Media and allow free movement of press in Tibet.
- Ensure immediate and adequate medical relief to injured innocent civilians peacefully demonstrating in Tibet.
March 21st protest pictures here.
Candle Light Vigil on March 17, 2008 outside the Federal Building in LA
March 19th Tibetan Protest in LA, Boing Boing tv episode on Tibet vigil is now live at:
http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/03/21/vlog-xeni-tibets-upr.html
PEACE RIDE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN TIBET
Gendin Gyatso - Tibetan Peace Rider
Veteran Tibetan cyclist Rinpo Tenzin will lead a “Peace Ride for Human Rights in Tibet” from March 29th to April 15th The team of volunteers will cycle through San Francisco bay area neighborhoods,cities,and college campuses talking to local San franciscans and passing out literature. The cyclists hope to raise awarecess of the Tibetan cause,and the events planned by the SFTSG coalition including the human rights demonstration and the human rights candle light vigil.
The Panchen Lama, regarded as one of Tibet’s most important religious figures, was abducted by the Chinese state in May 1995 at the age of six and became the world’s youngest political prisoner. Despite their repeated attempts to gain access to the boy, no international agencies or human rights organizations – including the United Nations – have been allowed to visit Nyima or his family, and their condition remains uncertain. Human rights conditions in Tibet remain dismal; under the Chinese occupation, the Tibetan people are denied most rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the rights of self-determination, freedom of speech, assembly, movement, expression and travel. Last year, Ruggye Adak, a Tibetan nomad and 52 year old father of eleven children, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment simply for calling for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet.
China’s consistent use of excessive military force to stifle dissent has resulted in widespread human rights abuses including multiple cases of arbitrary arrests, political imprisonment, torture and execution. Human rights groups have documented at least 60 deaths of peaceful demonstrators since 1987; the groups have also confirmed, by name, over 700 Tibetan political prisoners in Tibet, although there are likely to be hundreds more whose names are not confirmed. Many are detained without charge or trial for up to four years through administrative regulations entitled “re-education through labor”.
The peace ride protest is also directed at the International Olympic Committee for failing to fulfill its commitment to hold the Chinese government accountable for its current human rights record. In 2002, IOC President Jacques Rogge said, “if human rights are not acted upon by China to our satisfaction then we will act”. Instead, we have seen the opposite: a hardening of China’s position in Tibet, a sustained government-sponsored resettlement program of Tibetan nomads, increased social and economic marginalization of Tibetans following the launch of the China-Tibet railway, and the closing off of Tibet to Journalists and media scrutiny – with no response from the IOC. According to Human Rights Watch, “the Chinese government shows no substantive progress in addressing long-standing human rights concerns.”
The Peace Ride is designed to expand public awareness of the Tibetan cause, and through significant media coverage to evoke direct public criticism of Chinese actions and focus attention on the silence of the IOC.
For futher information on the Peace Ride for Human Rights in Tibet.
please contact.
Rinpo Tenzin: Cell(612) 205-0026 or Tibetanad@yahoo.com
Gendin Gyatso: Cell(310) 382-6069 or gendingyatso@aol.com
Pasadena Rose Parade
Tibetan Association of Southern California and Los Angeles Friends of Tibet in coalition with other Human Rights groups protested among the estimated 1 million people taking in the flower–covered Pasadena Rose Parade. The target of the protest is a float celebrating the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
For months coalition alliance, including Tibetan, Falun Gong, Burmese, human rights, and religious freedom organization have shadowed the Pasadena City and parade officials urging them to use their leverage to denounce human rights in Tibet and China.
The protestor urged all attending the parade to turn their backs to Beijing Olympic Float as it passes. The protestors made their presence felt to Chinese Olympic Float team and to the viewers.
Olympic Float of Shame Photos by David Huang
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