Posted on March 30, 2008 by sftcanada
Written by Kidup la, a good friend of SFT.
We didn’t plan a protest yesterday, but my wife and I went there to collect information they were giving out. When we arrived at around 1pm there was only one Tibetan supporter across the street, but she was great, and she had a placard [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2008 by sftcanada
ctvtoronto.ca – original article
Several hundred Chinese-Canadians rallied at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square on Saturday afternoon to show their support for their homeland.
The group waved both Chinese and Canadian flags and chanted “One China!” while patriotic Chinese music played on boom boxes.
Demonstrators said China has been unfairly portrayed by the media during the recent violent clashes with [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2008 by elzilcho
On the first Sunday of spring, in Toronto where the streets were relatively quiet because of the Easter long-weekend, thousands of Tibetans and Tibetan supporters rallied through the heart of downtown Toronto to protest China’s brutal crackdown on the uprisings inside Tibet, and to call on Canadians everywhere to be aware of and support the [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by elzilcho
[Ottawa - Sunday, March 23, 2008] As people in Ottawa prepared for the long-weekend ahead on a cloudy and chilly Thursday morning, a riveting sight of more than seven hundred people holding the multi-coloured snowlion flags of Tibet enlivened the city and roused the Parliament Hill with chants for freedom and justice like never before.
Tibetans [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by elzilcho
This is a call to all freedom fighters and humanitarians to gather in front of the Parliament Hill on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 9 AM. The international spotlight is now focused squarely on the happenings inside Tibet. This is our moment to link arms with our brothers and sisters back in Tibet and turn that [...]
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