Join Richard Gere, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tibetan leaders and other special guests |
The International Campaign for Tibet invites Tibet supporters to join our Olympics campaign, Race for Tibet, by participating in two events coinciding with the arrival on U.S. soil of China's official 2008 Olympics Torch.
At the University of California in Berkeley on April 7 and at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco on April 8, ICT will engage the public in an examination of China's human rights record in Tibet in this Olympics year.
The Chinese government, to underscore the theme of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, "One World, One Dream," is running the Olympics Torch around the world. The torch arrives in San Francisco - its only North American stop - on April 9.
We hope you will join ICT and a coalition of human rights advocates to honor the principles of fair play and human rights enshrined in the Olympics Charter, under which American and athletes from around the world will compete in Beijing. We will call on President Bush to publicly align himself with our positive message affirming these Olympics ideals before he departs to attend the Games.
Most critically, we will challenge the Chinese government to use the Olympics opportunity to step forward on the world stage, abandoning its human rights abuses and failed policies in Tibet.
On Monday April 7 at 7:00 p.m., the International Campaign for Tibet will host an interactive conversation on the situation in Tibet and other human rights considerations around Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics. The event is free and will be at the Joseph Wood Krutch Theatre on the Clark Kerr Campus of UC Berkeley, 2601 Warring Street. For directions please click here: http://www.housing.berkeley.edu/conference/conf_dirto_CKC.html
Refreshments will be served.
Join Richard Gere, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tibetan leaders and other special guests for a historic rally and candle light vigil in support of the Tibetan people and their struggle for basic human rights. As China prepares to host the Olympics in August, the government is conducting the worst crackdown in Tibet since the 1960s Cultural Revolution.
Come show your support for the Tibetan and Chinese people on the eve of the Beijing Olympic torch passing through San Francisco - the only stop in North America.
Tuesday April 8th 2008
United Nations Plaza
1150 Market Street
San Francisco, CA
Civic Center BART
Rally & Speeches 6:00pm
Culture / Music 7:15pm
Candle Light Vigil 8:00pm
RAIN OR SHINE
We expect a crowd of over 2,000 people to come out in support of human rights in Tibet. Tibetans and Tibet supporters from all over the country are making the journey to San Francisco. Already we have reports of bus loads of Tibetans coming from New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, and Southern California.
We expect massive press coverage of this event. Journalists are hungry for a human rights angle to their coverage of the official Beijing Olympic Torch - especially after the earth-shaking events that have recently unfolded in Tibet - and this vigil will be a powerful moment in the Tibet movement. If your schedule or travel availability permits, please join us in San Francisco. Now, more than ever, the people of Tibet need your help.
This event is cosponsored by the International Campaign for Tibet, Amnesty International, Students for a Free Tibet, Tibetan Association of Northern California, Regional San Francisco Tibetan Youth Congress, Bay Area Friends of Tibet, Committee of 100 for Tibet, International Tibet Support Network, International Tibet Independence Movement, and Santa Barbara Friends of Tibet.
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