Posted in China, Tibet on May 15th, 2008 No Comments »
To follow up Kim’s post about what we can all do to help out the situation in Tibet… we called and emailed our representatives and senators and now there is legislation drafted in the US Senate for action to be taken! I haven’t read the full bill yet, so who knows what kind of [...]
Posted in China, Tibet on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The Government of Tibet in Exile has posted this page on what we can do to help Tibet. There are articles on the importance of writing letters and why you should write to your congressional representative/senator/MP/etc. We have sent out the following messages to our representatives today and encourage everybody we know to do [...]
Posted in China, India, Tibet on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Violence has broken out in Lhasa, Tibet, as police forces there have come down hard on a peaceful protest to mark the anniversary of the failed uprising 49 years ago that led eventually to the exile of the Dalai Lama. First reports were coming in in the last few days that the military was [...]
Posted in China, Tibet on Oct 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
We have both mentioned a couple times about people’s interest in my tattoo while here so I thought I would just go into a little bit more detail about that.
First, if you are reading and don’t know anything about my tattoo, it’s a work in progress that I have been seeing Bryan at Apocalypse [...]
Posted in China, Tibet on Oct 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
Our last day in Beijing was quite a whirlwind. We started promptly at 9am with a short subway ride with our group to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. Tiananmen is massive and serves it’s purpose well by being very impressive and overwhelming in size. As Brian mentioned before, we came into [...]