Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence. We are a chapter-based network of young people and activists around the world. Through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action, we campaign for Tibetans’ fundamental right to political freedom. Our role is to empower and train youth as leaders in the worldwide movement for social justice.
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China's policy to Tibetan nomads
Tibet activists cause a buzz in New York City when they use the windows of huge department store across from Union Square to really display their message. A few days into the Beijing Olympics, these activists show us that they really know how to steal the spotlight.ft08.tvfreetibet2008.org
FT08.TV is a 24-hour internet TV station, a one-stop news and analysis resource for Tibetans, Tibet supporters, and others concerned about human rights connected to (and during) the Beijing Olympics. FT08.TV will be broadcasting throughout the Games, and will hopefully stick around long after. In addition to protests in Beijing Games, there will be a mobilization of Tibetans and their supporters for demonstrations at Chinese Embassies and Consulates worldwide, and FT08.TV will report on this a...
Just hours before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics members of Students for a Free Tibet projected on the facade of the Chinese Consulate in NYC. The group projected images of the Tibetan uprising earlier this year as well as images of victims of China’s crackdown. THIS VIDEO WAS BLOCKED BY THE IOC FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -What a joke!FreeTibet2008.orgFt08.tv
Yangchen Lhamo representing Students for a Free Tibet during San Francisco Olympic torch relay banner protest on Golden Gate Bridge, April 7, 2008.For more info: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/04/07/bridge.protest/index.html http://studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=1456
Shimla – Two exile Tibetans were detained by Indian border forces on June 19th, at approximately 10:30am as they attempted to cross the Indian border into Tibet near Shipkila Pass in Himachal Pradesh. With Tibet in view, the two Tibetans staged an iconic protest, raising a Tibetan national flag, calling for an end to China's occupation, and denouncing China's plans to take the Olympic torch into Tibet. Chime Youngdung, President of the National Democratic Party of Tibet, aged 33, along with Ko...
Please share and download this powerful 4-minute video about Tibet's cry for freedom and our Olympic opportunity to make history for Tibet.