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BPF WEB SECTION: Tibet

Statements on Tibet:

• BPF Statement on Tibet

• Executive Director's Statement on Tibet, Burma, and Darfur

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Statement

• His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
  • Appeal to the Chinese People, March 28, 2008
  • Press Release, March 14, 2008

• "Letter to the Editor of Turning Wheel, In Support of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan People"

  Lotus Institute for Mindful Living

Actions of Support:

• Ways you can make your voice heard to Support Tibet: Requests for support from the Tibetan Government in Exile.

• Government:

• CHINA: Contact Chinese Authorities in Lhasa:
• Send a letter via email
• Place a phone call to the Chinese Government

• UNITED STATES: Call on President Bush not to attend Opening Ceremonies in August:
  • Public figures and political leaders are reconsidering their involvement with the 2008 Olympics. Urge our leaders to take a stand against China's response to Tibetans' protests by not attending the opening ceremonies. Call your government officials. For the U.S. President at 202-456-1111 or by email at comments@whitehouse.gov.

• UNITED STATES: Contact your Congressional representatives:
  • Urge your Congresional representatives to insist that China not take the Olympic torch through Tibet in mid-June. Ask that they call on China to open Lhasa to foreign media.

• Race for Tibet: The International Campaign for Tibet invites Tibet supporters to join our Olympics campaign, Race for Tibet, by participating in two events coinciding with the arrival on U.S. soil of China's official 2008 Olympics Torch.  Click here for San Francisco event(s).

• Links to on-line Petitions:
  • Action Network.org - International Olympics Committee
  • Action Network.org - Chinese Authorities
  • Avaaz.org on-line petition
  • Amnesty International: Petition to free Tibetan monks and peaceful protesters

Sources of Information:

• BBC: Asia-Pacific
• "UN Calls for Restraint in Tibet"

• Amnesty International
  • "China's crackdown..."
  • "Tibetan Protests: UN investigation needed"

• Savetibet.org
  • Newslinks and Information
  • US Speaker Nancy Pelosi asks China to Free Tibetans, April 1, 2008

• Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy

• Tibetan Government in Exile

• Tibet Today

photo courtesy of Buddhist Channel.TV

• "Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets,"

  by José Cabezon, background and history