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Why Tibet Matters

Bianca Jagger | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Lobsang Sangay, Self Immolation, Human Rights, Templeton Prize, Bianca Jagger, Tibet, Protest, Free Tibet, HH the Dalai Lama, China, Prime Minister David Cameron, Torture, Monks, Religion-and-Culture, President Barack Obama, Cultural-Identity, Vietnam, Un-Special-Rapporteur, World News
Bianca Jagger

2012-05-14-Screenshot20120514at8.39.35AM.pngThe Tibetans are standing up to the vast and expanding power of the Chinese state with nonviolent resistance through religious practice, song, literature and even self-immolation.

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Nationalism 2.0

The Morningside Post | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Transnational Movements, Nationalism 2.0, Free Tibet, National Identity, Nationhood, Nation Brands, Occupy Wall Street, Save Darfur, World News
The Morningside Post

We are defined and united less by the national identities we are born into than by the transnational identities in which we choose to believe. We are becoming advocates rather than patriots. Our fight is increasingly for cause before country.

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Are Politicians Disregarding Crimes Against Tibet?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: China Tibet Crackdown, Tibetan Protestors, Vice President Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping Tibet, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping Los Angeles Tibet, Video, Tibetans Arrested, Tibet Protests, Xi Jinping, Free Tibet, China Tibet, Xi Jinping US, Xi Jinping Los Angeles, Los Angeles News

The U.S.'s conflict between wanting jobs and prosperity from China and not wanting to condone the country's human rights violations shone brightly in ...

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Villaraigosa To U.S. Frenemy: Welcome To LA!

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Video, Biden Los Anglees, Jerry Brown LA, Antonio Villaraigosa, LA Port, Jerry Brown, Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping in Los Angeles, Free Tibet, LA China Trade, Joe Biden, US China Trade, US China Trade Deficit, Xi Jinping US, Protest Xi Jinping, Syria, Los Angeles News

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is about to be the U.S.'s biggest frenemy. Which is why Vice President Joe Biden, Gov. Jerry Brown and Mayor Anto...

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Tibetan Monk's Body Reportedly Paraded Through Streets Of China

AP | SCOTT McDONALD | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Nyage Sonamdrugyu, China Monk Self Immolation, Self Immolation, Tibetan Monk Self Immolation, Monk, Free Tibet, Tibet China, Tibet, Tibetan Monk, China, Video, World News

BEIJING — The body of a Tibetan monk who died after setting himself on fire was paraded through the streets in northwestern China, a report said...

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Goodbye Tibet?

John Graham | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Tibet Laws, Politics News, Dalai Lama Tibet, Free Tibet, Tibet, Tibet China, China Tibet, China, Tibet Genocide, Tibet Buddhism, World News
John Graham

I just saw first-hand what the Chinese are doing in Tibet. The reports you've heard of cultural genocide are true. China is obliterating the ideas, traditions and habits of the Tibetan people.

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20 Tons Of Tibetan Soil: Art?

AP | By ASHWINI BHATIA | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Installation Art, Art, Tenzing Rigdol, Nature-Art, Protest Art, Contemporary Art, Free Tibet, Tibet, China Tibet, Refugees, Tibetan Refugees, Arts News

DHARMSALA, India -- An art installation made of 20 tons of soil from Tibet has touched a deep emotional chord among Tibetan exiles, hundreds of whom l...

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TIbetan Monk Sets Self Ablaze

AP | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Dalai Lama, Monk Self Immolation, Monk Sets Self on Fire, Self Immolation, Monk, Monks, Free Tibet, Tibet, World News

BEIJING — A British human rights group says another Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire in a protest against Chinese rule over the Him...

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Protester Sets Self Ablaze

AP | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: China Buddhist Monk, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist Monk Fire, Free-Tibet-Protest, Free Tibet, Tibet, China Tibet, Buddhist Monks, China, World News

BEIJING -- A Tibet activist group says a former Buddhist monk has set himself on fire to protest Chinese rule in the region. Free Tibet said the 19-y...

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Tibetan Monks Set Selves On Fire

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Video, Tibet Monks, Tibetan Monks China, Monks Set Selves on Fire, Free Tibet, Tibet, China Tibet, Buddhist Monks, Tibetan Monks Fire, Tibetan Monks, World News

ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press BEIJING — Two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire Monday in a protest over China's tight rein over Buddhist pract...

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The Dalai Lama And The Separation Of Church And State In America

Nicole Neroulias | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Mormons, Church-State Separation, Free Tibet, Dalai Lama, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Tibetan Buddhism, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Religious Freedom, Evangelical Christianity, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Tenzin Gyatso, Separation of Church and State, Religion News
Nicole Neroulias

The separation of church and state is a major principle in American public life, one that the rest of the world acknowledges and -- as evinced by the Dalai Lama's recent remarks -- even admires.

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Dalai Lama Stepping Down As Tibetan Political Leader

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Tibet, Dalai Lama, The Dalai Lama, Tibet, China Tibet, Tibet Protests, Dalai Lama Tibet, China, World News

DHARMSALA, India -- The Dalai Lama says he will give up his political role in Tibet's government-in-exile, shifting that power to an elected represent...

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China And The (Next) Dalai Lama

Matteo Pistono | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama Reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism, Religious Freedom, China and the Dalai Lama, Free Tibet, Panchen Lama, Chinese Human Rights, Buddhism in China, Religion News
Matteo Pistono

March 10 marks the anniversary when Tibetans rose up in the streets of Lhasa against China's nascent occupation of Tibet and when a 24-year-old Dalai Lama fled a pursuing Chinese army.

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Groupon's Offensive Super Bowl Ad Makes Tibetan Cause Relevant Again

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Tibet Crackdown, Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism, Religious Freedom, Television Advertising, Offensive-Advertising, Groupon Super Bowl Commercial, Super Bowl Ads 2011, Tibet, China and Tibet, 2011 Super Bowl, China Human Rights, Super Bowl, Groupon Super Bowl Controversy, China and Tibet Violence, Free Tibet, Groupon Online Coupons, Human Rights, Super Bowl Ads, Groupon-Super-Bowl-Controversy, Groupon, Advertising, Groupon-Super-Bowl-Commercial, Super Bowl Commercials, China Tibet, Groupon Super Bowl Ad, Groupon Chicago, Media News
Disgrasian

Guys, seriously, Groupon did a good thing, okay? Because after they aired that Super Bowl ad about Tibetans-being-oppressed-but-who-gives-a-shit-when-we-can-save-money, we're actually talking about Tibet today.

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Making Genocide a Joke?

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Tibet, Torture, Dalai Lama, Tibet, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Superbowl, China Tibet, Groupon, Impact News
Heidiminx

Ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, took irreverence to a whole new low yesterday, making light of the suffering of the people of Tibet.

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Can ABC World News get Answers?

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mining in Tibet, Free Tibet, Karma Samdrup, Laogai, Political Prisoners, Panchen Lama, ABC World News, Diane Sawyer, Dhondup Wangchen, Impact News
Heidiminx

Diane Sawyer and ABC World News are headed to China and are asking "What Issues Do You Want to Know More About?"

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Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis

Rebecca Novick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China-Tibet, Language, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Tibet Protests, China Politics, Free Tibet, Tibet, Asia, China Human Rights, China, World News
Rebecca Novick

"Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about." So said the late American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. China's Communist Pa...

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Tibetan Students Protest Use Of Chinese In Classes

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Tibet, Tibet Students, Chinese Language, Tibet, Tibetan Culture, China, Western China, Tongren, World News

BEIJING — Tibetan students in western China marched to protest unconfirmed plans to use the Chinese language exclusively in classes, teachers sa...

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Street Dogs: American Musicians Stand Up For Tibet's Imprisoned Artists (VIDEO)

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Built on Respect, Milarepa Fund, Free Tibet, Street Dogs, Beastie Boys, Youth Activism, Mike McColgan, Impact News
Heidiminx

The tools of our culture may have changed, but we are STILL capable of using the tools of our culture to amass a widespread movement for change.

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Murder in the Himalayas: A Story that Had to be Told

Rebecca Novick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mountain Climbing, Free Tibet, China and Tibet, China Tibet, China, China Human Rights, Mountains, Mount Everest, Asia, World News
Rebecca Novick

"There will always be people willing to risk everything for freedom." It's been four years since video footage of the fatal shooting of a teenage Tib...

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Amplifying Banned Arts

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Gere, Contemporary Tibetan Art, Free Tibet, Art for Tibet, Shepard Fairey, Wen Jiabao, Impact News
Heidiminx

Presented by Students for A Free Tibet, the Art For Tibet benefit event is part of an ongoing effort to amplify the voices and means of expression that are banned inside Tibet.

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Ideas For Tibet

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Prisoners, Free Tibet, Tibetan Cooking, Dharamsala, Social Activism, Community Action, Learning and Ideas for Tibet, Tibetan-Center-for-Human-Rights-and-Democracy, Tibet, Guchusum, Impact News
Heidiminx

Dharamsala India is home to many NGOs: some, like the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, address politics, while others, like Lha, teach English, photography and computers to local Tibetan refugees.

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Opinion=Opression: Risking Death to Make a Movie

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, 2008 Olympics, Dhondup Wangchen, Lhamo Tso, Amnesty International, Free Tibet, Impact News
Heidiminx

On a regular basis, I do something that most people in the free world do -- I ask my friends their opinion on something: politics, religion, sports, a concert...and I take for granted the fact that this is OK.

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Torture in Tibet

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Fire Under the Snow, Free Tibet, Palden Gyatso, China Human Rights Violations, Torture, Impact News
Heidiminx

Modern media moves so quickly, and skims over current events so quickly -- it's no wonder that Tibet has to fight to stay in the press. After all, China's illegal occupation of Tibet started over 50 years ago.

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Tattoos: Inked for a Cause

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth-Action, Inked Magazine, Ex-Political Prisoners, Heidiminx, Tibetan Tattoos, Built on Respect, Tattoos, Free Tibet, Inked for a Cause, Impact News
Heidiminx

Over a year and a half ago, I started a column for InkedMag.com, called Inked for A Cause -- it combined two of my passions: socially-minded people and my 20-year love affair with body art.

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