Fuck Yeah, Tibet!

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February 2012

21 posts

Rare visit to Remote Chinese region shows depth of... →

mollierodriguez: Ngaba, Tibet — The monk reached into the folds of his red robe, pulled out a small notebook, and gently slipped from its pages a tiny photograph. The man in the creased picture was a relative. He used to be a fellow monk at the monastery perched in snow-wrapped mountains outside the town of Aba. Then a Chinese security officer killed him, the monk said. (McClatchy)

Can’t Imagine; Can’t Stop Trying

by Tsering TC Susan Sontag’s animation, with its stark halting stop-motion images and its repetition of all that we (on the outside) cannot know is jarring and difficult to take. There’s something damning about it. I want to say, “I can imagine; I can imagine something of what’s happening in Tibet, at this very moment.” But I fear that Sontag is right. And more importantly, as Sontag writes, I...

I'm at the candlelight vigil in Union Square right...

BREAKING NEWS: Another Tibetan self-immolates;...

DHARAMSHALA, February 8: Reports coming out of Tibet confirm that another Tibetan set himself on fire today. The self-immolation took place at the No. 2 primary school in the besieged Ngaba town of eastern Tibet at around 6.30 pm local time. In information received by Phayul from sources in exile, the Tibetan was heard raising slogans against the Chinese government while engulfed in fire....

A BIG FUCKING ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO OUR DEAR FRIENDS CHINA AND RUSSIA FOR VETOING THE DRAFT UN RESOLUTION TO CONDEMN THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT’S BLOODY CRACKDOWN ON ITS OWN PEOPLE. TRUST ONE DESPOTIC REGIME TO PAT ON ANOTHER FUCKED UP MEGALOMANIAC’S BACK AND SAY, “YOU JUST GO ON WIPING OUT THOSE DISSIDENTS, MY FRIEND. DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE WORLD. THE UN’S INEFFECTIVE AS IT...

Three more Tibetans self-immolate in eastern... →

DHARAMSHALA, February 4: In reports coming out of Tibet, three Tibetans have self-immolated on February 3 in the undersieged town of Serthar in eastern Tibet. A Tibetan in exile with contacts in the region told Phayul that two Tibetans survived the self-immolation but one is feared dead. “The three Tibetans called for the unity of the Tibetan people and protested against the Chinese government,”...