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PETITION - SIGN HERE: http://tiny.cc/g0q60x

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“Allowing Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics would send the world a message that China’s human rights abuses are being endorsed by the I.O.C., making the 2022 Games look strikingly similar to the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics,” the letter said. “We dream that one day the sacred Olympic flame will cast a light on a free China. For now, under this government, any more Olympic Games would go down in history as the Shame Games, and make the I.O.C. an accomplice in the abuse of human rights in the name of the Olympics.”

link: http://tiny.cc/swr60x

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The images coming out of Nepal are harrowing. Here are vetted charities you can donate to if you want to help.

Nepal is a small and poor country ill-equipped to deal with a calamity of this scale. Nothing as disastrous and devastating has taken place in the region for almost a century. No substantial form of emergency aid and assistance program is available domestically, at least not one that can deal with a disaster of this magnitude. Any outside aid counts. Please give any amount you can to these relief efforts that are vetted and credible. The area is still experiencing aftershocks that are making rescue efforts difficult. Water and food are now being sought after. Please give how you can and we can hope help gets to the people affected before it’s much too late. Please help. 

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PLEASE HELP NEPAL.

More than 1,400 dead as magnitude-7.8 quake rocks Nepal

A powerful earthquake — the country’s worst in 80 years — rocked mountainous Nepal on Saturday, killing more than 1,400 people and leveling buildings and centuries-old temples. Dozens if not hundreds remained trapped under mounds of rubble.

Hospitals in the capital of Katmandu were so crowded that many of the injured were treated outside in the open, according to local media. The magnitude-7.8 quake, which shook a wide swath of northern India and Tibet, also triggered avalanches in the Himalayas, killing at least eight people at Mount Everest’s base camp.

Nepal police said at least 1,457 people were killed.

Outside Nepal, at least 20 people were also killed in India, six in Tibet and two in Bangladesh. Two Chinese citizens died at the Nepal-China border. Given the scale of the destruction, the death toll is almost certain to rise, said Laxmi Dhakal, Nepal’s Home Ministry official. (x)

If you can please donate to the Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund!

You can also donate to the American Red Cross by texting “redcross” to 90999. That text will result in a $10 donation to the disaster relief fund.

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Wow.

US Teacher Deported After Sending Text Messages Critical of China’s Tibet Policies

Teacher recounts harrowing story from Lhasa

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*Tibetan Plateau, TIBET. 

Tibetan Plateau, China

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March 10 is Tibetan National Uprising Day.

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Today, to honour Tibetan Uprising Day and relentless Tibetan resistance to China’s brutal occupation, please share the Tibetan flag which is banned inside Tibet or join a local demonstration. 

"Free Tibet" is not about hippies or meditation, it’s about a country that’s been under military occupation since 1949. It’s about colonialism.

Over 130 people have now self immolated since 2011 in protest against Chinese rule. Just recently, on March 6th, Norchuk set herself on fire and died from her wounds, marking the first self immolation of 2015.

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Happy 79th birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama! 

May you live long and in good health, may your wishes find fulfillment, may your spirit never waver, may your guidance see us through and may there come a day when you set foot again on your own homeland. 

With deepest gratitude and love, we wish you health and happiness. Happy birthday, Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso!

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Tianamen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell What happened then And you can’t speak Of Tianamen. You must not speak. You must not think. You must not dip Your brush in ink. You must not say What happened then, What happened there. What happened there In Tiananmen. The cruel men Are old and deaf Ready to kill But short of breath And they will die Like other men And they’ll lie in state In Tianamen. They lie in state. They lie in style. Another lie’s Thrown on the pile, Thrown on the pile By the cruel men To cleanse the blood From Tianamen. Truth is a secret. Keep it dark. Keep it dark. In our heart of hearts. Keep it dark Till you know when Truth may return To Tiananmen. Tiananmen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell When they’ll come again. They’ll come again To Tiananmen. James Fenton - Hong Kong, 15 June 1989

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McSamsara

Sorry if this painting reminds you of yourselves, because I can see myself reflected in here. Welcome to the jungle!

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This is the Bodh Gaya Buddha, considered very sacred by Tibetans and Buddhists everywhere. It is located in the Mahabodhi Temple in Bihar, India, where Gautama Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment. I took the picture during my trip there this January. It never stops astounding me, how well endowed religious sites and institutions are. People will keep giving as long as they maintain the faith that they're getting something back, in this life or the next. I mean, look at all the glitter up there. I'm not foolish enough to assume they're diamonds (right?) but they don't look very cheap either, you know? Makes for a pretty picture still. Although one wonders what Gautama Buddha would think if he saw himself clad all in gold and glitter. This was a common theme throughout my visits to religious attractions around India and Nepal. I shouldn't be surprised. My mother probably spends more money making donations to various monasteries to look after me and my brother's collective wellness, on upholding daily religious rituals, etc than anything else. How many others like her? It just never stops stumping me though. All that faith. All the blingz. I'm off on a tangent. I shouldn't be writing. 

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What Makes the Dalai Lama Lovable?

 by Alice Walker

His posture

From so many years 

Holding his robe with one hand

Is odd.

His gait

Also.

One's own body

Aches

Witnessing 

The sloping

Shoulders

& Angled

Neck;

One hopes

He

Attends 

Yoga class

Or does Yoga

On his own

As part

Of prayer.

He smiles

As he bows

To Everything:

Accepting

The heavy

Burdens 

Of

This earth;

Its

Toxic

Evils

& Prolific

Insults.

Even so,

He sleeps

Through

The night

Like a child

Because

Thank goodness

That is something

Else 

Daylong

Meditation

Assures.

You could cry

Yourself to sleep

On his behalf

& He

Has done that

Too.

Life

Has been

A great

Endless

Tearing away

For

Him.

From

Mother, Father, Siblings, Country, Home.

And yet

Clearly

His mother

Loved him;

His brother & sister

Too: Even his

Not so constant father,

Who

When Tenzin was

A boy

Shared

With him

Delicious

Scraps

Of 

Succulent 

Pork.

He laughs

Telling this

Story

Over half a century

Later

& 

To who knows

How many

Puzzled 

Vegetarians:

About

The way he sat

Behind

His father's chair

Like a dog,

Relishing

Each juicy

Greasy

Bite.

Whenever I see

The Dalai Lama

My first impulse

Is to laugh

I am so happy

To

Lay eyes

On

One

So effortlessly 

Beautiful.

That balding head 

That holds

A shine;

Those wire framed

Glasses 

That might

Have come 

From

Anywhere.

That look of having offered

All he has.

He is my teacher;

Just staying alive.

Other teachers

I have had

Resemble him

In some way;

They too

Were

& 

Are

Smart

And Humble;

Fascinated

By Science & things like

Time,

Eternity,

Cause & Effect;

The Evolution

Of the Soul.

A

Soul

That 

Might

Or might not

Exist.

They too

See all of us

- Banker, murderer, gardener, thief -

When they look

Out across

The world:

But that is not all

They see.

They see our suffering;

Our striving

To find

The right path;

The one with heart

We many only

Have heard about.

The Dalai Lama is Cool

A modern word

For 

"Divine"

Because he wants

Only

Our collective

Health

& Happiness.

That's it!

What makes

Him

Lovable

Is

His holiness.

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Welcome to Dharamsala, population 20,000 and one of the most hacked places in the world. This small city in India's lush Himalayan foothills is home to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader; the Central Tibetan Administration, or CTA (formerly called the Tibetan government in exile); and a host of Tibetan media outlets and nongovernmental organizations, some of which the Chinese government classifies as terrorist groups. The Dalai Lama fled here in 1959 after communist troops violently suppressed an uprising in Lhasa, now the capital of western China's Tibetan Autonomous Region. India embraced the Dalai Lama as a token of religious diversity, and tens of thousands of refugees followed suit. About 130,000 Tibetans live in exile, according to a 2009 census; Dharamsala is the closest thing they have to a political capital.

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"Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."  - Nelson Mandela

This photo is from the meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela in 2004. Earlier this year, when the ailing Mandela was hospitalized, the Dalai Lama expressed remorse at not being able to visit South Africa to see him for a last time due to his Visa being denied by the government officials. 

Now it is with deep sadness that we had to see this day, this passing of one of the greatest men whose struggles and sacrifices shaped not just a nation, but our whole world.

Rest in peace, Madiba. Your legacy will live on. 

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“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.” - August Strindberg

Let's be the biggest, baddest bee we can be. Please sign the petition! We're NEARLY there. Less than 10,000 signatures until we hit a million! 

China wants the world to forget about it’s brutal rule of Tibet, but right now it needs votes to get elected to the UN Human Rights Council. Let’s get our governments to use this vote to demand change!

It is incredible the pace with which this online petition has been moving. I don’t know why I did not post this here sooner. But please, if you haven’t signed this Avaaz petition already, please take a second to do so. Avaaz is the largest online advocacy group and we are both extremely grateful and excited that they joined in on the good fight. We’re hoping to hit 1,000,000 signatures. 1,000,000 people who want China to know we’re not cool with their sick human rights record, which makes them the last government we want on the UN Human Rights Council. 

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China wants the world to forget about it's brutal rule of Tibet, but right now it needs votes to get elected to the UN Human Rights Council. Let's get our governments to use this vote to demand change!

It is incredible the pace with which this online petition has been moving. I don't know why I did not post this here sooner. But please, if you haven't signed this Avaaz petition already, please take a second to do so. Avaaz is the largest online advocacy group and we are both extremely grateful and excited that they joined in on the good fight. We're hoping to hit 1,000,000 signatures. 1,000,000 people who want China to know we're not cool with their sick human rights record, which makes them the last government we want on the UN Human Rights Council.