Tibetans and Supporters Confront Continental Minerals at their AGM

It was a rainy Vancouver day, but Tibetans and supporters organized by SFT and CTC came out to hold a second protest on Wednesday June 24th, outside the Metropolitan Hotel where the Continental Minerals AGM took place, to protest the company mining in Tibet.  Earlier that morning, Tsering Lama, SFT Canada National Director, went head-to-head [...]

SFT “Welcomes” Chinese Foreign Mininster to Ottawa

SFT Ottawa “welcomed” Chinese foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on June 22nd as he arrived in Ottawa to meet with the Canadian Foreign Minister, Lawrence Cannon.  Below is a report from SFT Ottawa’s Wangdu Duntak and photos from Lodoe Laura.
We started our protest against the arrival of foreign minister Yang Jiechi at 5:30 pm.  There [...]

Tibetans and Supporters Shame Continental Minerals on Their Own Turf

We arrived in Vancouver this week, ready to take on Continental Minerals on their turf!  Our first night, Tsering and I met with the rock star members of SFT Vancouver to get ready for today’s day of protest against Continental.

Game day arrived with the weather cooperating and many Tibetans and supporters gathered in downtown Vancouver [...]

Continental Minerals Corporation: No Business Being in Tibet

Students for a Free Tibet will take to the streets later this month to call for Continental Minerals Corporation to cease their mining operations in Tibet. A Canadian company and subsidiary of Hunter Dickinson Incorporated, Continental Minerals is one of the most advanced mining companies in the illegally-occupied Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Cooperating with the [...]

Tibet and Tiananmen: Beijing’s Shame

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre when thousands of Chinese students, workers, and average citizens died standing up to the Chinese regime to demand for democracy, to demand for equality, and to demand for basic human rights. Here in Toronto, the Chinese community has not forgotten about what took place [...]