Olympic Athlete Outreach Campaign: Athlete Wanted!
June 26, 2008 · Print This Article
The Athlete Wanted campaign is an effort by Students for a Free Tibet and a coalition of Tibet supporters worldwide, appealing to Olympic athletes to stand in solidarity with Tibetans during the Beijing Olympics.
As part of the campaign, SFT placed a full-page ad (left) in the New York Times, which appeared on July 29th on page A9 [click on the ad to see a larger image]. Read the press release about the the New York Times ‘Athlete Wanted’ ad and visit www.AthleteWanted.org to see how we’re appealing to athletes to stand up for Tibet.
Download the Athlete Wanted advertisement as a PDF document.
Please join our efforts!
In order to identify the athlete who may end up “inspiring the world with their courage and character” we need your help. The Athlete Wanted campaign is a grassroots effort by Tibetans and their supporters around the world to appeal to Olympic athletes from every participating nation to stand up for Tibet at the Beijing Games.
Here are some of the ways you can help:
- Donating or raise money to help us place the “Athlete Wanted” advertisement in other high-profile international publications
- Placing the “Athlete Wanted” advertisement in your local newspaper or magazine
- Reaching out directly to Olympic hopefuls at your school or in your community
- Handing out postcards, fliers, and other information at Olympic trials and training venues
For more information on placing the ad, getting materials, and how you can get involved in the Athlete Wanted campaign, please contact: athletewanted@studentsforafreetibet.org
I really appreciate your courage for Tibetan causes and your inspiration for the Tibetan youths all over the world. And your dedication is really impressive and deserves applause. Thank you on behalf of all the Tibetan who is struggle for Free Tibet.
Bod Gyalo
From your Konchok Dhargay
freetibet for me
Free Tibet now and forever !
We will never give up, not in 1000 years !
Thanks for all those working for Tibet.
My brother and sister in law spent 4 weeks in jail following the crack down in Lhasa on March 14th.
Please watch this video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XNYK46DXnFM
They were treated very poorly. Due to fear for their current safety, I will not give details.
Bod Gyalo
i appreciate your courage for tibetan …..go head ….till free tibet
TIBET IS FOR TIBETANS
FREE TIBET AND FREE CHINA
OM MANE PEDME HUM
PEACE AND LOVE
The Ad really Needs FREE TIBET ! in the largest font, Otherwise i would skip the page in the paper mistaking it for a Nike or NBC ad as i would not know what it is for until i get to the free tibet part in tiny font at the bottom of the page IF i get there.
Just a friendly pointer on what grabs my attention as a reader. Thank You for your continuos effort and resilience.
We, Tibet supporters in Japan always stand with Tibet ! Tibet will be FREE !
I wish I were an athlete, participating the Olympic…
yr unstoppable contribution to speak out for tibet n tibetan issues all over the world behalf of millions of tibetans within tibet n resided all over the world,i really appreciated n many thanx n i must say yr group represent us one of the biggest voices for free tibet!therefore, through yr lightness i am able to little contribution to the world to speak out for tibet n to aware around the world.i’m proud of being a tibetan to have support groups like u!i will pray n believe we will achieve our goal someday to have unstoppable group like.good luck in everystep u guys take in future for us.free tibet,bho gyalo n long live his holiness the 14th dalai lama of tibet!sontop.ciao!
ONE WORLD , ONE DREAM, CHINESE COMMUNIST MUST COLLAPES TO HAVE A BETTER WORLD TO LIVE IN
I just saw the add today in New York Times. I hope it works out. My question is “why Today” in New York Times? I thought it would be on 08/08/2008 or 08/09/2008 where all the movers and shakers of the world power will read and have the greatest impact. I guess you must have a reason to have it published today.
Nonetheless you guys are the only ones who stirs and send chilling notes to Beijing. Keep the good work going. Tibetans in Tibet will be proud of your deeds. SFT rocks!!!
Bhoed Gyalo
Thank you for doing this. I’ve supported Tibetan causes for a long time as my husband is Tibetan and I care deeply about the Tibetan people. You guys are coming up with some really ingenious ways to publicize this cause and I appreciate it. I tell as many people as I can, go to the protests and I BELIEVE, someday, the world will care enough to put a stop to the cultural genocide, religious oppression and racist treatment of Tibetans in Tibet.
Those, who support OL, support opression, torture and massakres. Those, who dosent speak out, agress with the communists. But on the other site there has just been a big earthcrake in China, and we mus’ent let the communists treating af tibetans stop us from helping the chinese peoples in need.
I’m christian, but anyway i’m praying for religius as well as kultural and political freedom in Tibet, China and alle ower the world. Many christians thinks far to much at materealistic stuf and dispice all other religions, but that is the opperseat of Christs teachings.
The buddhists understands much better than christians, that materalism is the root of all evil, and that all humans is brothers and sisters. All religions and cultures can learn something from each other and make peoples psykical richer, if only we woud listen in stead of figthing.
Ewen do I don’t agree with the chinese communists, I still think, that ancient China is wery exiciting, and China itself has a lot of problems today.
I’ve got the 3-hours movie “Gandhi” on DVD, and I think, that it’s one of the greatests movies ever. When Gandhi first started a
non-violent, non-coperation indian independent-struggle, people laughted at him and thaught, he was crazy, but how did it end? Dalai Lama is wery inspired by Gandhi, and when India cud be independent that way, so can Tibet, if we ceep supporting and praying. Gandhi and Dalai Lama is 2 of my heroes, and I will citate Gandhi : “An eye for an eye only ends op making the whole world blind”. We must always keep that in mind.
It’s wonderfull, that so many supports the tibetans, but thousands of other cultures are in danger of dying because of cultural and religius opression - several tribes in Indonesia, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Siberia, Africa and the Amazon-rainforest, the native americans in North, - Middle - and Southamerica, the inuits / eskimos in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia, the gypsys, the naturepeoples on Pacific islands, the aborigines in Australia, the maoris in New Zealand and the saamis in Northern Europe.
There’s an organisation, Cultural Survival, that fights for indenegius peoples rights today, so if you want to help these peoples also, just search for Cultural Survival on google. You don’t have to donate a lot of money, if you can’t afford it, it helps just as much to sign things on their website. At the end I’ll apolojuice for, if I’ve spellt something wrong, it’s because, I’m from a little northern Europe country called Denmark and normaly speaks and write danish.