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

Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm Location: Chinese consulate Laguna at Geary, San Francisco

The second Future of Tibet conference will take place in Paris, France from November 25-27, 2022. Tibetans in Europe are invited to join us for three days of talks, discussions and workshopping. The aim of the second conference is to create a coherent sequence of plausible segments that create vivid, compelling stories about what the future could look like for Tibet. The conference hopes to initiate discussion about the future of Tibet, especially with Tibetans living inside

STOP - NBC, BBC, CBC, Sky, Discovery, and Eurosport among top broadcasters targeted by more than 200 campaign groups San Francisco, December 2, 2021 — With just two months until the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, activists across the globe are lobbying Olympic broadcasters—including NBC, BBC, CBC, and Sky—to “immediately cancel broadcasting deals” to telecast the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, or face a serious risk of being complicit in CCP China’s plan to “sport wash” [1] the

Date: Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 8:00am to 8:00pm Location: Berkeley and San Francisco Contacts: Tenzing Dolma 510-254-1420 (Students for a Free Tibet) Tenzin Dolma 510-502-1180 (SF Tibetan Youth Congress) Giovanni Vassallo 415-706-3507 (Bay Area Friends of Tibet) San Francisco Team Tibet Joins Global Commemoration of Tibetan National Uprising WHAT: On March 10, 2018 hundreds of Tibetans and Tibet supporters in the

SAN FRANCISCO (December 27, 2017) – Tibetan independent filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen arrived at San Francisco International Airport on Christmas Day, 2017. He has been reunited with his family after having been separated for more than ten years during which he was held incommunicado, detained, imprisoned, and subjected to deprivation of political rights in the People’s Republic of China. He conveys his thanks to the governments, organizations, and individuals who made this day

Date: Friday, March 10, 2017 - 12:00am Location: Berkeley and San Francisco, California Contacts: Tenzing Dolma 510-254-1420 (Students for a Free Tibet) Tenzin Dolma 510-502-1180 (SF Tibetan Youth Congress) Giovanni Vassallo 415-706-3507 (Bay Area Friends of Tibet) San Francisco Team Tibet Joins Global Commemoration of Tibetan National Uprising WHAT: On March 10, 2017 hundreds of Tibetans and Tibet supporters i

Press Advisory For Immediate Release: 18 February 2016 Contacts:
 Lobsang Dorji 510-706-8721 Phuntsok Dolma 510-680-8352 Tenzing Dolma 510-254-1420 San Francisco Team Tibet Joins Global Commemoration of Tibetan National Uprising Tibet Ranked as 2nd ‘Worst of the Worst’ Places for Freedom in the World; only Syria scored lower WHAT: On March 10, 2016 hundreds of Tibetans and Tibet supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area will join thousands of people around the

On 28 December 2009, filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was sentenced to six years imprisonment for "subversion", following a secret trial in Xining. Dhondup Wangchen had been detained shortly after completing filming for a documentary called “Leaving Fear Behind”. His film portrays the actual living conditions in occupied Tibet and features interviews with Tibetans talking about the situation in Tibet. It was shot secretly and smuggled out of the country in March, 2008, just days be

Date: Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 5:30pm to 9:00pm Location: Sundance Kabuki Theatre 1881 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94115 Tickets available at: http://www.universe.com/socuspremiere ABOUT THE FILM: Two American filmmakers go undercover in Tibet during a full scale media blackout. Entering the hot-bed areas in closed off regions of Tibet, they try to help get information out of the region. As they document heartrending stories of the Tibetan struggle for human rights, a

Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 3:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Mitchell Park Community Center, El Palo Alto Room3700 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Who? Organized by Jady Tian, Kelly Liu, Janis Iourovitski, Julia Huang and Ilana Silverstein, current juniors at Gunn High School, featuring other teen photographers. What? An exhibition where high-quality photos taken by teens are sold. The event will also feature a presentation of Braille Without Borders. Why? To fundraise f

Date: Friday, September 25, 2015 - 10:00am to 8:00pm Location: Dupont Circle and President's Park Washington, DC Tibetans and supporters from all over US headed to DC to protest Xi Jinping’s Visit Protesters call on Obama to publicly raise Tibet with Xi San Francisco Team Tibet* plans protest at SF Chinese Consulate (San Francisco) Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his first ever state visit to the White House to meet President Obama. This comes at a time when at le

Protesters call on Obama to publicly raise Tibet with Xi San Francisco Team Tibet* plans protest at SF Chinese Consulate (San Francisco) Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his first-ever state visit to the White House to meet President Obama. This comes at a time when at least 143 Tibetans inside Tibet have self-immolated as a means of protest against Xi’s government, calling for freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. And just recently, on July 12, one o

Tell Mayor Ed Lee to stand up for Tibet Tibetans detained after supporting dead monk (Amnesty International) Free Norzin Wangmo Put Tibet back on the map Protest executions in Tibet Free Tibetan Heroes International Tibet Support Group Urgent Actions Tibet Third Pole Campaign International Tibet Support Group Campaigns Visit this link for urgent action and help to free Tenzin Delek Rinpoche U.S. Tibet Committee Students for Free Tibet International Campaign for Tibet Tibetan

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 12:00am to Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 12:00am Experience a traditional Himalayan bazaar under towering oaks and redwood trees as Live Oak Park in Berkeley transforms into a vast market place of arts, crafts, traditional music, dance and food. Performances include the beautiful classical Indian dance forms of South India and of Orissa (Odissi dance by Jyoti Kala Mandir) will entrance viewers, as will colorful folk dances by local Nepali, Tibetan and

Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 7:00 pm Location: Opera Plaza Cinema601 Van Ness AveSan Francisco, CA 94102

Date: Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 7:00pm Location: Tibetan Association of Northern California Community Center5200 Huntington Avenue Suite 200Richmond, CA

Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 8:00am to 8:00pm Transcript of Leader Pelosi's speech on March 10, 2015 Statement by Rep. Jackie Speier： Press Release Contacts: Tenzin Tsepel 510-393-6883 Giovanni Vassallo 415-264-3264 Sonamtso 510-816-0600 For Immediate Release: 05 March 2015 Photo Opportunity San Francisco Team Tibet, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to commemorate the