Profile: Students for a Free Tibet
Year Founded
1994
Type
Non-profit
Last on Think
Updated on: 07/24/2008 13:54
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Mission Statement

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence. We are a chapter-based network of young people and activists around the world. Through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action, we campaign for Tibetans’ fundamental right to political freedom. Our role is to empower and train youth as leaders in the worldwide movement for social justice.

Location
602 E. 14th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY
New York, NY 10009
United States
Phone
212-358-0071
Fax
212-358-1771
Website
www.studentsforafreetibet.org
Email
mtv@studentsforafreetibet.org
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With the 2008 Beijing Olympics around the corner, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) is working overtime around the world to bring global attention to China's brutal occupation of Tibet. Visit SFT's Olympics campaign website www.freetibet2008.org for more info... and read on:

 

The Chinese Government has been using the 2008 Beijing Olympics in an attempt to legitimize its brutal occupation of Tibet, running its Olympic torch through Lhasa and up Mt. Everest, and filling its Olympics advertising with images of happy, dancing Tibetans.

Since the recent Tibetan popular uprising began in March, the Chinese government has even been using the Olympics as an excuse to escalate its repression in Tibet, working to crush any sign of dissent during the Games.

With the Olympics bringing unprecedented attention to China, we must expose the reality of the Chinese government's brutal rule in Tibet and press for an end to its ongoing clampdown. This is our Olympic opportunity to make history for Tibet, and help win human rights and freedom for six million Tibetans.

 

For more information, visit:

SFT's Olympics Campaign Website: www.freetibet2008.org
SFT International Website: www.studentsforafreetibet.org
SFT Blog: blog.studentsforafreetibet.org
Tibet News & Analysis: www.phayul.com

 
 
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SFT announces Free Tibet 2008 Television
Students for a Free Tibet has a new online video channel broadcasting from London throughout the worldwide uprising for Tibetan freedom during the Beijing Olympics: Free Tibet 2008 Television, or FT08.TV.

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New York Times full-page ad today:...
I don't know if any of the small army of Chinese officials who live at the Chinese Consulate overlooking the West Side Highway here in Manhattan ever read the New York Times. But if they do, they likely coughed up their morning tea when they turned to page A9 in today's Times.I like to imagine Consul...
Tags: tibet olympics protest beijing 
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Dramatic Olympic Torc...
Two days before the Olympic torch arrived in San Francisco, three Students for a Free Tibet activists scaled the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge and hung two massive...
Tags: protest  tibet  olympics  chin 
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by  Students for a Free Tibet on july 24, 2008
 
   
 
Our "Olympic Opportunit...
The Beijing Olympics are right around the corner – watch this powerful video about our collective "Olympic opportunity" to make history for Tibet, and help win...
Tags: Freedom  china  tibet  olympics 
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by  Students for a Free Tibet on july 24, 2008