Free Tibet – Boycott the olympics! (blog action)

Information about the blog action and how you can take part, please scroll down!!!

It’s certainly not what the Chinese government wanted, a protest in their most hated province Tibet in the year of the Beijing Olympics. Now it has happened: Tibetians went on streets to protest against their oppressing and cruel government. China, which is known for its human rights violations, has now again proved what everyone knew: They silenced a helpless crowd that wanted to show the whole world its desperate situation.
Journalists who wanted to report (what should be legal according to the olympic rules) were constrained much. Although in the times of the internet, some information found its way through to the western hemisphere. One of these pieces of evidence is a frightening YouTube video of these protests:

Another one shows a reporter, being intimidated by local policemen:

I really want to ask you: Do you want to support such a country? Everyone who wants to do something: PLEASE BOYCOTT THE 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES!!! The only way to do something against it.

If you’re not sure whether you should or not, here another video, which is not as funny as it may look like as we all know that over a million people were forced to leave their homes for stadiums and other olympic preparations:

Further information about the displacements: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009364949

This blog takes part in the Free Tibet! blog action of Rainbow-Net: http://blog.rainbownet.ch/uncategorized/blog-action-free-tibet-now Please consider a visit there as well!!!

Hi everyone to my new blog “Das Herbstblatt”

Hi everyone and welcome to my new blog “Das Herbstblatt”!
The word “Herbstblatt” is German and simply means “autumn leaf”. Maybe you’ll ask why I’ve chosen that name. Well, I didn’t want to make a blog with a spectacular name like “Peace on earth!” or “Stop global warming”. “Das Herbstblatt” is an unobstrusive name because people mostly don’t have the time to watch leaves on the street. They are there but people wouldn’t notice them.

But actually a leaf is one of the great wonders in the world. It is equipped with everything it needs, it has veins for living and it changes its colour when autumn arrives. So if one leaf changes the colour on a tree, the others will follow and at the end the whole tree glows in its newly obtained colour.

What I want to say is that something worldshaking doesn’t have to be loud or demonstrative but maybe a silent impulse can change everything.

To follow in a way my motto I’d like to start with a very serious topic. Maybe you’ve heard of the demonstrations in Burma that just took place there. People wanted to break free of this oppressing and terrifying government that spurns human rights every day. For that reason I’d like to present you a site on the web which supports the democratic opposition in different ways, mostly over the internet.

One way is to post an image in a blog to express the solidarity with the people protesting and living there.

If you also want to participate click on the image below which takes you directly to the page.