Boing Boing tv (Beijing): interview with pro-Tibet videobloggers in hiding.
August 27, 2008
Posted by Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing
August 25, 2008 10:34 AM
Last week, eight American citizens were detained in Beijing for participating in pro-Tibetan sovereignty protests near the site of the 2008 Olympics, with Students for a Free Tibet. Two videobloggers who documented those protest and guerrilla art installations evaded detention, and spoke to Boing [...]
The “Olympics Diary” of a Tibetan
August 27, 2008
Posted by Tashibod on China Digital Times
The following diary was originally posted in Chinese and provides a glimpse into life in a remote Tibetan area as the Olympics were being celebrated in Beijing:
Today is Tuesday, July 22, 2008, and it is the tenth day since I came back to my hometown. Within these ten days, [...]
China’s PR Fiascos: Blocking iTunes Just the Latest in Ongoing Olympics PR Disaster
August 20, 2008
By Celia Alario on the Huffington Post
Posted August 20, 2008 / 11:44 AM (EST)
How can China and the International Olympic Committee be so, well… lame?
With both Burston Marsteller and Hill & Knowlton on retainer for the Beijing Olympic games you’d think China would have all its Peking ducks in a row. But [...]
GRL’s James Powderly detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet “L.A.S.E.R. Stencil” art protest
August 19, 2008
Posted on August 19, 2008, at 7:47 AM
Blog by Xeni Jardin on BoingBoing
Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing they learned of Graffitti Research Lab founder James Powderly’s detention by Chinese authorities in Beijing via a Twitter direct message that read “held since 3am.”
I just spoke to the SFT representative who has been Powderly’s [...]
Polish Olympic Weightlifter Makes Tibet Protest in Beijing
August 19, 2008
Yesterday, the weightlifter Szymon Kołecki, shaved his head in a gesture of solidarity with Tibetan monks, before competing and winning a silver medal.
He told a Polish sports news outlet:
“This haircut is from this morning. I can’t directly say why I did it. It’s connected with certain things that the Olympic Charter forbids. But I [...]
Nick Kristof’s Arrogant Idiocy
August 18, 2008
Posted on August 18th, 2008
by F.X. Leach on Tibet Will Be Free
Regular readers of Tibet Will Be Free know that New York Times columnist Nick Kristof has a long history of wankery when it comes to his writing on Tibet and China. Kristof is a Sinophile through and through — he is married to [...]
Arrested in Tibet: A Young American`s Journey of Fear
August 13, 2008
Posted on August 12, 2008
Blog by Rebecca Novick on Huffingtonpost
Wen-Yan King listens to Devendra Banhart, The Temptations and The Beatles. She likes hash browns. She drinks too much coffee. The Lion King is her all time favorite feel-good movie. Her hobby is photography.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, her parents moved to Minneapollis, Minnesota, when she was [...]
The Olympics Are Political
August 8, 2008
Posted on August 7, 2008
by Matt Browner Hamlin on the Huffington Post
Today the 2008 Summer Olympics start in Beijing. The debate in the lead up to the Games has focused on whether or not this sporting event, representing the pinnacle of thousands of athletes’ careers, is also a time to discuss politics. The host nation [...]
The Beijing Media Story
August 7, 2008
Posted on August 7th, 2008
by hocevar on Tibet Will Be Free
This is my second day here in Beijing. After spending a lot of yesterday on camera, it’s a little hard to relax. So in between interviews, today I’m going to head out with the laptop and a video camera to see if I can give [...]
The Belly of the Beast
August 7, 2008
Posted on August 6th, 2008
by hocevar on Tibet Will Be Free
Greetings from the Belly of the Beast, where the Olympics have finally arrived - and so has SFT. They say there are 100,000 security personnel here for the Games, and as I travel across the city it seems like there must be at least that [...]
