Nepal police arrest over 500 Tibetan protestors.

All of whom are women. From the VOA writeup:

Police in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu say they have detained more than 560 Tibetan protesters Sunday, all of them women.

It was the all female demonstration against China’s crackdown in Tibet since violence erupted in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in March.

Since then, Tibetan exiles have taken part in anti-China protests nearly every day. Nepal is home to about 20,000 Tibetan refugees.

Power to the people…Buddha please keep them safe.

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Beyond Beijing..

For Enigma at WaterGate Summer. Hugs, from Dusty

We can protest without fear..the monks in Tibet and Burma..not so much.

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China tries to do damage control in Tibet uprising

The government of China, who has tossed all media from Tibet, is trying now to spin a little damage control on what is happening in Tibet. A torchbearer for the 08 Olympics, to be held in China, has withdrawn in protest of China’s actions in Tibet. Who exactly is to blame for the unrest in Tibet:

Why the Dalai Lama of course! At least that is the way the Chinese media is spinning it. From the AP writeup linked above:

“The Dalai clique is scheming to take the Beijing Olympics hostage to force the Chinese government to make concessions to Tibet independence,” it said.

The attacks on the Dalai Lama have been aimed at further demonizing him in the eyes of the Chinese public, which strongly supports the Olympics. The Dalai Lama, who advocates nonviolence and denies being behind the March 14 riots in Lhasa, asserted Sunday that he has supported China’s hosting of the summer Games.

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China blocks YouTube after Tibet protests posted.

It is getting heavy-duty in China and Tibet. Protests are spreading like a California wildfire and they are being filmed and posted on YouTube. China has now blocked access to the popular video site in a vain attempt to keep everyone under their thumb in the dark about the actions taking place in Tibet and around the world in solidarity with the citizens and monks of Tibet. Roughly 210 million Internet users reside in China, by their own government reports. One such video is

Reports are surfacing that at least 80 protesters have been killed in Tibet by Chinese government forces. Other reports have Chinese government agents going house to house and arresting individuals in their homes. These reports can not be verified since China does not allow outside journalists access to Tibet, per a CBC news article.Crossposted at UnCapitalist Journal

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China cracks down in Tibet as protests spread.

 

From AP:

BEIJING (AP) - Violence in Tibet spilled over into neighboring provinces Sunday where Tibetan protesters defied a Chinese government crackdown. The Dalai Lama warned Tibet faced “cultural genocide” and appealed to the world for help.

Protests against Chinese rule of Tibet were reported in neighboring Sichuan and Qinghai provinces and also in western Gansu province. All are home to sizable Tibetan populations.

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Compassion

Two monks were talking, one said he was in danger.
What danger?, asked the other monk.
I was in danger of losing my compassion for the people of China.

The monk who spoke of the danger, had spent the last 20 years in a Chinese prison.
The other monk he was speaking with, was the Dalai Lama, who said this statement was profound to him.

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I have hung another strand of prayer flags today, as a prayer for the people of Tibet, China, and all the world, that we may all find compassion.

There has been trouble in Lhasa, Tibet. The official news is 10 people have been killed in protests. Others have reported 70 to 100 killed, and 1000 imprisoned. The BBC reports the protests are Tibetans demanding the release of prisoners.
May strength and compassion prevail, and the path of non violence be the chosen path.

 

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NYC protests Schumers Pro Mukasey vote.

A Hat-tip to a dear blogger bud, Libhomo. I learned this evening that the anti-torture folks in NYC protested at Chuckie Schumer’s place today in an impromptu coalition of patriotic protesters. From his writeup:

Although I arrived late, I didn’t miss out on the most interesting part of the protest. People who had started across the street from Schumer’s coop building moved to the same side of the street as Schumer’s quasi-residence in Park Slope. The 30+ people who arrived for a last minute and barely publicized protest expressed sentiments that go way beyond them and beyond Brooklyn.

Brooklyn for Peace, the Green Party of Brooklyn, and Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID) deserve credit for organizing the moment of sanity in an increasingly insane country.

The support of the latter organization is encouraging. Often, Democratic clubs are so blindly partisan that their members forget why they are Democrats. That certainly was not the case tonight with CBID.

As Libhomo notes, an important part of the coalition is the CBID group. The word is getting out that the Democrats are not representing their constituents. I am very glad that the general population is realizing this. We need to vote these sumbitches like Schumer and DiFi out. These DINO’s need a wake-up call.

As of this writing, I can not find any online articles about the protest. If I find some in the morning, I will update this post. Thank you to ALL the folks in NYC and Brooklyn that showed Schumer what they think of him.

Tags: Brooklyn protests Schumer, Patriotic Protesters

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