SFT Kicks Off Global Actions for a Free Tibet
August 7, 2008 · Print This Article
Four Students for a Free Tibet activists inaugurated the global actions to speak out for human rights and freedom in Tibet during the Beijing Olympics with a dramatic banner-hang action outside the main Olympic stadium on Wed., Aug. 6th [more info]. With a support person each below, two activists scaled two 120 foot-high light poles and unfured 140 square-foot banners, one reading “One World, One Dream: Free Tibet” and the other reading “Tibet Will Be Free” in English and “Free Tibet” in Chinese. The activists were arrested by Chinese authorities, and then deported from China. The daring action instantly grabbed worldwide headlines. From 100 feet above the ground, one of the activists, former SFT UK National Coordinator Iain Thom, left a voicemail recording, declaring, “We’ve taken this action today to highlight the Chinese government’s use of the Beijing Olympics as a propaganda tool to whitewash its human rights record in Tibet.” Tibetans and their supporters held demonstrations and took nonviolent directa action in other cities around the world on Wednesday as well, from San Francisco and Vancouver to London and Brussels to Delhi and Kathmandu. Stay tuned for more!
To really get the message out we need high profile people, Politicians of high calibre and integrity.
But the whole world has been cowered into servile spinelessness, and all and sundry are busy appeasing the tyrant, for trade with the world’s most populous nation is just too lucrative to squander on an obscure country with no means to by our goods anyway.
http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/07/letter-to-hu-jintao.html
Free Tibet,