The Protest Games Begin
August 6, 2008
August 6th, 2008
Sky Canaves
With two and a half days till the opening ceremonies, things are heating up on the activist front.
This morning, we got news that Team Darfur founder and Olympic speed skating champion Joey Cheek had his Chinese visa revoked less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to fly to Beijing.
Around the same [...]
Guilty of Being Tibetan: Scenes from a Lhasa Prison
August 2, 2008
July 31, 2008
Rebecca Novick
From the Huffington Post:
Guilty of Being Tibetan: Scenes from a Lhasa Prison
“Before, this was the best place, but now it’s like a prison. When I watch TV, everything is lies. So I walk in the streets where the soldiers ask for my identity papers. If there’s the smallest mistake, you’re finished. [...]
Dispatches from Tibet
July 25, 2008
July 25th, 2008
by Kathleen McLaughlin
Far Eastern Economic Review
Lhasa Diary
Posted on July 25, 2008
As I was strolling near the Jokham Temple in central Lhasa on Friday just after sunset, a young Tibetan man cycled up next to me on his bike.
He greeted me in clear, proper English, asking where I was from and how long I [...]
Chinese Olympics Propaganda: Pretending to Permit Protest
July 25, 2008
July 24, 2008
Posted by cold mtn on the SFT Blog
On July 23rd, at a press conference for foreign journalists in Beijing, Chinese authorities announced that it will “allow protests” in Beijing during the Olympics.
Wow. Really? That’s unexpected. A real about-face for the Chinese authoritarian regime!
But wait, there’s a hitch or two. Or ten.
To demonstrate, one [...]
BLACK ANNALS: Goldstein & The Negation Of Tibetan History (Part I)
July 22, 2008
When Oscar Wilde declared that “the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it”, he was probably attempting to provoke — épater les bourgeois, as the French might say. Wilde lived in an age, the latter half of the nineteenth century, of assurance and certitude. Contemporary historians such as the German empiricist Leopold [...]
The Fear in Lhasa as Felt in Beijing & Lhasa, Making Sound in Fear
July 16, 2008
A 2-part story from Tibetan writer Woeser, posted on Jamyang Norbu’s blog:
The Fear in Lhasa as Felt in Beijing & Lhasa, Making Sound in Fear
by Tsering Woeser
PART I
The Fear in Lhasa as Felt in Beijing
It was one day in April. When I met DZ, he was standing on the street with the lights just turned [...]
Running Dog Propagandists
July 14, 2008
By Jamyang Norbu
July 13, 2008
In response to my recent piece Barefoot Experts some readers wrote in to say that Tibetans should not fritter away their energy picking on experts and journalists in the West but should focus on countering propaganda from China. A reasonable request, on the face of it, but perhaps not too cued [...]
Lhadon on the Torch Relay
July 10, 2008
The torch relay in Tibet was not just a farce but a complete shame on the Chinese leadership, the IOC and everyone in the Olympic movement who allowed it to happen
Tibetan monasteries empty as China jails monks to silence Olympic protests
July 7, 2008
By Jane Macartney, The Times (UK)
Tibetan monks have angered China by taking opportunities to protest to the media. The authorities have cracked down at least until the Olympics
Chinese authorities tightened security around Tibet’s main monasteries and banned visits to a sacred site on the edge of the capital, Lhasa, for fear of a fresh [...]
China media clamps slammed a month before Olympics
July 7, 2008
By James Pomfret, Reuters
HONG KONG, July 7 - A month before the Olympics, China continues to severely breach its pledge to allow full media freedoms, harassing and restricting foreign journalists in Tibet and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday.
“Correspondents face severe difficulties in accessing forbidden zones, geographical areas and topics [...]
