[mobglob-discuss] Demonstration against "Chinese Propaganda Week":

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"While China Lies, Tibet Lies" demonstration
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From: Kevan Hudson [mailto:khudson at vcn.bc.ca]
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Subject: "While China Lies, Tibet Lies" demonstration


Demonstration against "Chinese Propaganda Week":

When: 6:30 Wednesday, September 25th (make this one the priority), Thursday,
September 26th
Where: Meet at Homer and Robson courtyard of the Vancouver Public Library

Dear Member,

Other than Tibetan Uprising Day, March 10th we rarely ask you to take direct
action and come out to voice your opinion loud and clear that Tibet must be
free. However, we feel compelled to ask for your presence next week in a
demonstration against the blatant Chinese Government propaganda occurring
right here in Vancouver.

The People's Republic of China's (PRC) Government is sponsoring "China
Tibetan Culture Week", a show at the Vancouver Centre for Performing Arts.
The show does not represent genuine Tibetan culture or history and is in
fact a desperate Chinese propaganda show to convince the West that Tibet is
part of China and that all is well there. The PRC has millions of dollars to
spend on this propaganda. We only have ourselves and you, to battle it.

Canadian Tibetans across Canada are denouncing "China's Tibet Cultural
Week", calling it a cruel propaganda exercise orchestrated by the Government
of China and designed to whitewash the cultural abuse that has devastated
Tibet since 1959. The show has been touring across Canada and is sponsored
by several naïve Chinese business people and special interest groups,
however, not a single Tibetan organization in Canada was approached and none
are involved in any way.

CTC National President Thubten Samdup, who is also a former Director of the
Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts says "This event is more about
promoting China's occupation of Tibet than anything else. Today's reality is
that Tibetan culture is under attack in China's Tibet".

Of Tibet and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mr. Li Gang, Vice-President of the
primary organizer of this event, China's Association for Cultural Exchange
with Foreign Countries, said during a reception for the same show touring
Australia last year, "Situated on the Roof of the World, Tibet is a part of
China"...The separatist clique of the Dalai Lama (yes, that's supposed to be
us) are clearly making use of the lack of understanding people have of Tibet
to portray it as a nation that is backward, ignorant, despotic, and poverty
stricken... In terms of his political role, the Dalai Lama is a charlatan,
his words and actions reveal him as a skilled manipulator of truth,
adulteration, and blatant lies."

Contrast this with the fact that the Dalai Lama never speaks ill of the
actual figures in the PRC government who are oppressing, imprisoning and
torturing his own people. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize. We believe he is respected the world over and we believe
Tibet should be free. This is what we will be "fighting" for next week.

Demonstration against "Chinese Propaganda Week":

6:30 Wednesday, September 25th (So we start with a bang, priority should be
on making this day if you cannot make the 26th)

6:30 Thursday, September 26th

For both days meet at the Homer and Robson courtyard of the Vancouver Public
Library, directly across the street from the Centre for Performing Arts on
777 Homer Street.

Please help us expose this "genuine Tibetan event" as a charade!

Thank you for your time.

CTC - Vancouver



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