German Olympians won’t gag athletes at Beijing games
German Olympic officials won’t gag their athletes over politically sensitive issues at the Beijing Games like the British Olympic Association appeared to attempt. “Our athletes are citizens
Future of the Dalai Lama Seminar in New York: a personal analysis
First of all let me thank the organizer Rangzen Alliance, Students for a Free Tibet, US Tibet Committee and Tibet House for organizing the seminar, which was open for public participation on 10th Feb.
TALKING TIBET
“Our ideas of development are so different, they are opposites; for China digging mountains and building tinted glass towers is modernization, while for the Tibetans developing our mind for
Juggling free speech for Beijing Olympics
A member of the U.S. Olympic team would face no official rebuke for wearing a T-shirt that said, “Free Tibet,” while walking the streets of Beijing during the 2008 Summer Games.
Lantos dies, House’s sole Holocaust survivor
In the nearly 60 years Tom Lantos spent in the United States, he never lost his Hungarian accent, his love for animals or his stubborn belief that political leaders have a duty to speak out against