Translate from 舊金山多族裔「國殤日」集會　籲停止迫害、捍衛自由人權 By Lin Ruoshui, The Epoch Times | San Francisco At noon on October 1, people from a range of ethnic and community backgrounds—including China, Hong Kong, Tibet, East Turkestan, Southern Mongolia, Vietnam, and the Philippines—gathered outside the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco for a joint protest marking a “National Day of Mourning.” Under the theme “Speaking Out for Freedom, Human Rights, and Dignity,” participants called

Today, on 1 October, the Chinese Communist Party celebrates the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Meanwhile, for Tibetans, today is nothing to celebrate. For us, a coalition of more than 145 Tibet organisations from around the world, today is a day to stand together in our opposition to the CCP, its occupation of Tibet, its systematic eradication of Tibet’s identity and way of life and its violence against the Tibetan people. So long as we have voices to speak, we w

Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had served a separate prison term from 2013 to 2017 for his Citizens Movement activities during Xi Jinping’s first wave of crackdowns on civil society after coming to power in late 2012. Between the two

1. I Love the Panchen Lama: I Love the Panchen Lama is a new webpage on the iheartibet website, that includes background information, an embedded music video by Sonam Tashi, a link to dedicated poems by Woeser (translated by High Peaks, Pure Earth), a message board and a link to an urgent action to United Front Minister Du Qinglin. Please visit this page and leave a personal message for Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as well as take part in the urgent action. 2. Urgent Action to Du Qin

Speaker: Giovanni Vassallo, President of the Bay Area Friends of Tibet & Co-founder of the Bay Area Chinese and Tibetan Friendship Group Good evening, dear Chinese brothers and sisters! My name is Giovanni Vassallo. I am honored to stand before you today as one of the founding members of the Bay Area Friends of Tibet, and as a co-founder of the Bay Area Chinese and Tibetan Friendship Group, which first began meeting back in 2009. Thank you so much for having me here today. I

Every year on March 10, Tibetans around the world and human rights advocates mark Tibet Uprising Day — a commemoration of one of the most dramatic turning points in modern Tibetan history. What Happened on March 10, 1959? On that morning in Lhasa, tens of thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Norbulingka Palace, the summer residence of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Rumors had spread that Chinese authorities planned to detain him, and crowds gathered in a spontaneous act