links for 2008-04-05
Posted on April 5, 2008 by nolympics
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If the world really wants to send a message to Beijing, here’s how it can be done; with personal boycotts. There are individuals, and I’m sure there are many, who will refuse to attend the Olympics in Beijing because of China’s record on human right
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China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here’s why it’s so effective anyway.
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The Olympics may be athletic competition, but this year it is also a contest of alternative realities.
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The Beijing Olympics has engaged and inspired activists like never before, and made activists out of those who were only sideline sympathizers. It is simply the best thing to have happened to the Tibetan cause in 50 years.
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This week, a Beijing court sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3 1/2 years in prison for subverting state authority and to one additional year’s loss of his “political rights.”
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In a significant shift, campaigners against the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region are endorsing a call for world leaders to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games in August.
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This is a state that imprisons, tortures and kills its political opponents.It is a state that pollutes public discourse with untruths,and that not only seeks to suppress truths, but that seeks to suppress the free exchange of thought between its citizens.
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy will not attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics unless China opens talks with the Dalai Lama and frees political prisoners, a French minister has said.
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Consider this: in the past few months alone the following events have taken place around the upcoming Beijing Olympics -
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Honestly, giving China the Olympics was a huge mistake in the first instance and now as the blood of murdered Tibetans trickles down the street, I wonder who out there has any enthusiams for these bloodied games?
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