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- Subject: Tibet Free Burma support groups
- From: cd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 01:14:00
the following may be useful for better understanding of
current affairs re Tibet-China, and regards China Nazism re China,
Tibet, Burma etc
then followed by useful long list of names for Free Burma support
in solidarity,
metta
dawn star
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/ (see also Tibet section alongside EuroBurmanet)
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> 1. Nazis of Asia set out to hoodwink the free world (DIIR)
> 3. Seven Days for Tibet Begins! (ICT)
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> 1. Nazis of Asia set out to hoodwink the free world (DIIR)
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> Dharamsala, 10 Oct: Just when the Hollywood film, Seven Years in Tibet,
> threatens to expose China's brutal invasion and its illegal occupation of
> Tibet, the Chinese propaganda machine has resorted to its customary bout of
> painting the Tibetan leader with China's own guilt.
>
> The Chinese propaganda has alleged that His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in his
> childhood, came under the influences of Heinrich Harrer, on whose
> best-selling memoir this movie is based, and who was recently described as
> having had Nazi affiliations. It is obvious that, by forging links, however
> ludicrous, between Harrer's Nazi past and His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
> China intends to wean away the Jewish community's support to the Tibetan
> cause and their deep respect for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. But having
> known and endorsed His Holiness the Dalai Lama's unflinching commitment to
> freedom, justice and peace for about four decades, the free world,
> including the Jews, might, at worst, abort this piece of Chinese propaganda
> for its sheer irrelevance.
>
> Heinrich Harrer and his friend, Peter Aufschneiter, came to Tibet in the
> wake of World War II. They had come to India before the War to climb one of
> the Himalayan peaks. When the War broke out, the two were detained by the
> British Indian government and held in a prison in Dehradun, North India.
> They escaped from prison and headed towards Tibet where they were given
> asylum. This was purely on humanitarian ground as the two had suffered
> great hardship in crossing western Tibet before reaching Lhasa.
>
> When Harrer came to Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was preoccupied with
> his spiritual training under the guidance of Tibet's foremost spiritual
> masters. His Holiness spent only a very limited time with Harrer, learning
> English and hearing about the outside world. Never during his time in Tibet
> did Harrer display any sympathy for the cause of Nazism, for if he had, his
> stay would have been surely made abrupt. Anyone with a simple knowledge of
> Tibetan Buddhism should know that the causes espoused by Nazism are
> anathema to Tibet's culture. Moreover, it is a well-known fact that Tibet
> stayed neutral during the War, although it did permit the Allies to use its
> airspace to ship medical supplies to China.
>
> Contrary to the Chinese claim, it was Harrer who came under the influence
> of Buddhist philosophy during his time in Tibet. In a statement issued from
> his Huttenberg home, Harrer said, "My personal political philosophy grew
> out of my life in Tibet. ... It is a belief that reflects many tenets of
> Buddhism and places great emphasis on human life and human dignity. It is
> this philosophy that has guided my life during my recent visits to Tibet
> and my explorations in many parts of the world over the past four and a
> half decades. And it is a philosophy which leads me to condemn as strongly
> as possible the horrible crimes of the Nazi period."
>
> While admitting to being a ceremonial member of the SS for a brief period
> in 1938, Harrer explicitly refutes implications that he was a dedicated
> Nazi supporter or was involved in any way in the heinous crimes of the
> Hitler period. Harrer has also referred to his Nazi experience as "one of
> the aberrations in my life, maybe the biggest, and I regret deeply that
> these events may give rise to false impression."
>
> The Chinese Communist regime, on the other hand, has never shied from
> practicing the tradition of Nazism. It is well known that this regime has
> wiped out over 1.2 million Tibetans, one-sixth of Tibet's entire
> population, in order to facilitate its invasion and occupation of Tibet.
> Over 30 million of China's own innocent people have died as a result of the
> Communist regime's technically blunderous and inherently brutal policies.
> The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, that shocked the world out of its
> conscience, was nothing when compared to the mayhem China's Communist
> masters perpetrated in Tibet and China from the early 1950s to the
> mid-1970s. If anyone, it is the Communist leaders of China who are the
> indisputable Nazis of Asia, their actions in Tibet and China evoking a
> painful reminiscence of Jews' holocaust nightmare.
>
> Bernard Levin writes in The Times of September 7, 1990: "The word
> "genocide" must be used with care. Our world and our century have seen
> countless abominable massacres, and it is easy to slip into the use of the
> word to denote such atrocities. We should, however, restrict it to those
> crimes before high heaven which are truly designated by it...there are four
> mass murders which can justifiably carry the brand. They are: the Jewish
> Holocaust, the Stalin Terror, the bloodthirst of Pol Pot and the Khmer
> Rouge, and what was done to the people and culture of Tibet during the
> miserable lust for death and torture unleashed by the mad Mao Tse-tung of
> China." Now one couldn't help asking: Who actually came under the influence
> of Nazism. Tibet, the victim of China's imperialist tradition, or China,
> the eager student of Nazi's genocide culture?
>
> Department of Information and International Relations
> Gangchen Kyishong
> Dharamsala - India
>
>
The following may be read with interest in gathering support from these
groups and individuals for Free Burma, in solidarity.
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> 3. Seven Days for Tibet Begins! (ICT)
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> 150 Communities and 40 States Launch Nationwide Awareness and Action Campaign
>
> Thursday, October 9
>
> Yestaerday, over 150 communities in 40 states launched Seven Days for
> Tibet, the most widespread Tibet awareness campaign since the 1991 "Year of
> Tibet."
>
> Groups kicked off the week with candlelight vigils in 10 cities and with a
> national press conference in New York city. Seven Days for Tibet has
> already received widespread media coverage, including in Newsweek, US News
> & World Report, and many local publications.
>
> 300,000 Action Kits are being distributed to thousands of volunteers across
> the country to be handed out at theaters showing Seven years in Tibet.
> Groups participaing in the campaign include not only Tibet support groups
> and Tibetan refugees associations, but also environmental groups, high
> school groups, and other activist groups around the country.
>
> Listed below are the groups and individuals organizing events for Seven
> Days for Tibet. If your group is planning events or leafleting for Seven
> Days for Tibet and are not listed here, please e-mail ICT at
> ict@xxxxxxxxxxxx
It is recommended that these groups and individuals be contacted for
support to the Free Burma movement insolidarity with Free Burma Support
for Free Tibet. ds
>
> Alabama
> Madison, AL Bonnie Richards
> 500
>
> Huntsville, AL Amy & Bob Daniel (205) 650-0250 640
>
> Alaska
> Anchor Point, AK Alaska Tibet Committee
> Denise Lassaw (907) 235-4277
>
> Fairbanks, AK Friends of Tibet- Fairbanks
> Neville Jacobs (907) 456-4780 300
>
> Arizona
> Tempe, AZ SFT- Arizona State University
> Peter Ovington (602) 303-9565 1300
>
> Tucson, AZ SFT- University of Arizona
> Erin O'Meara (520) 629-0842 650
>
> Sedona, AZ Kenyon Taylor (520) 284-1652 80
>
> California
> Berkeley, CA International Committe of Lawyers for Tibet
> Janice Mantel (510) 486-0588 4000
>
> San Fransisco, CA Tibetan Association of Nortrhern California
> Tashi Norbu
> 5000
> Tashi Dolkar (804) 296-7343
>
> Urban School of S.F.
> Chris Denison (415) 626-2919 2000
>
> Tibetan Association of Northern California/
> Milarepa
> Techung (415) 278-9889 500
>
> Carmel, CA Central Coast Friends of Tibet
> Sharon Bacon (905) 624-8693 1300
>
> Pasadena, CA Pasadena Friends of Tibet/ Tara Health Center
> Christine Yelich (626) 799-7879 6400
>
> Los Angeles/Malibu Los Angeles Friends of Tibet
> Tseten Phanuchara (310) 829-8831 5000
>
> Chowchilla, CA SFT- Chowchilla HS
> Emily Asquith (209) 665-5850 400
>
> Santa Monica, CA LA Friends of Tibet
> Martin Wassel (310) 315-4875 240
>
> San Louis Obispo, CABonny Summey (805) 544-1883 100
>
> Westminister, CA Orange County Friends of Tibet
> Tensing Chondren
> 650
>
> West LA, CA Tibetan Association of LA
> Tenzin Damcho (310) 441-1925 650
>
> Colorado
> Boulder, CO Colorado Friends of Tibet
> Pema Dechen Gorap (303) 499-4168 1300
>
> Jade Ullmann (303) 415-1424
>
> Colorado Springs, COSFT- Colorado College
> Jenny Langenbach (719) 442-0548 320
>
> Montrose, CO Western College Friends of Tibet
> Bill Duckworth (970) 240-4197 2000
>
> Connecticut
> Old Saybrook, CT Tibetan Association of Connecticut
> Thapkhey Tsering (860) 395-1392 200
>
> Middletown, CT Becky Schwartz
>
> Tina Harris (860) 685-6192 640
>
> Storrs-Manfield, CT SFT- Edwin Smith HS
> Stephanie Toughrow (860) 487-0877 350
>
> Norwalk, CT Mike McManus 1300
>
> Wallingford, CT SFT- Choate-Rosemary Hall
> Brian Holland (203) 697-3378 650
>
> D.C.
> Washington, DC Capital Area Tibetan Association
> Karma Gyaltsen (202) 785-1515 5000
>
> SFT- George Washington Univ.
> Alene Tchourumoff (202) 338-5476
>
> Florida
> Redington Beach, FL Dennis Harrison (813) 393-6285 500
>
> Miami, FL Miami Friends of Tibet
> Sylvia Sarasua
>
> Georgia
> Smyrna, GA Georgia Tibet Committee
> Diane & Chodak Tsmpel (770) 431-9761 2000
>
> Hawaii
> Honolulu, HI SFT- Hawaii
> Joshua Cooper (808) 734-0117 650
>
> Idaho
> Boise, ID Tibetan Association of Idaho
> Tashi Dhondup (208) 336-4815
>
> Illinois
> Chicago, IL Tibetan Alliance of Chicago
> Dhondup Namgyal (773)989-8285 3200
>
> Nina Schroeder (847) 835-7025
>
> Karma Zurkhang (773) 275-7454
>
> Glencoe, IL Solutions in Action
> Karen Garfinkle (847) 604-3938 200
>
> Highland Park, IL Nikolas Moreno (847) 433-8179 640
>
> Indiana
> Indianapolis, IN International Tibet Independence Movement
> Larry Gerstein (317) 579-9015 2500
>
> Iowa
> Ames, IA SFT
> Ryan Bergman (515) 268-0345 1280
>
> Fairfield, IA Pam Whitworth (515) 472-8955 100
>
> Kentucky
> Louisville, KY Kentucky Friends of Tibet
> Susan Sullivan (502) 897-3110 100
>
> Louisiana
> New Orleans, LA Whitney Stewart (504) 897-2885 700
>
> Maine
> Windham, ME Maine Friends of Tibet
> Terry Fralich (207) 774-7000 2000
>
> Maryland
> Rockville, MD Maura Daly (202)237-5409
>
> Columbia, MD Linda Fishman 200
>
> Massachusetts
> Amherst, MA Dawa Chophel (603) 355-2275
>
> Amherst College
> Ann Caimi
> 200
>
> Umass-Amherst
> Yashi Chodon (413) 546-2838 1000
>
> Jacob Fine
> 500
>
> Boston, MA Tibetan Association of Boston
> Ngawang Jorden (617) 547-5481 1300
>
> Northhampton, MA SFT- Smith College
> Leda Nornang (413) 585-6900 200
>
> Norton, MA SFT- Wheaton College
> Michael Sheehy 640
>
> Wellesley, MA SFT- Wellesley College
> Elizabeth Freck (617) 283-4349 100
>
> Watertown, MA Crystal Blue Beading Company
> Lisa Wolf (617) 923-2337 100
>
> Michigan
> Grand Rapids, MI Tibet West Michigan Mailing List
> Glenn Freeman (616) 235-0284 6500
>
> Ann Arbor, MI Anthony King (313) 936-9361 1300
>
> Minnesota
> Minneapolis, MN Tibetan Association of Minnesota
> Pema Takza (612) 789-3149 1300
>
> Northfield, MN SFT- St. Olaf College
> Karma Youngdue (507) 646-2224 1300
>
> Missouri
> Kansas City, MO Kansas City Friends of Tibet
> Jason Pollen (816) 561-6261
>
> Montana
> Missoula, MT Montana Tibetan Cultural Association
> Tashi Phuntsog (406) 543-8063 1300
>
> Toni Daniels (406) 327-0672 1000
>
> New Hampshire
> Barrington, NH Tina Burr 100+
>
> Durham, NH Student Environmental Action Coalition
> Roian Shambala (603) 862-2343 1920
>
> Keene, NH Tibetan Association of Amherst
> Dawa Chophel (603) 355-2275
>
> Hanover, NH Nima Taylor (603) 646-5859
>
> New Jersey
> Alpine, NJ SFT- Tenafly HS
> Stephanie Carlisle (201) 768-7234 2000
>
> Princeton, NJ Princeton Area Friends of Tibet
> Tsering Yangdon (609) 924-5243 2000
>
> Hopewell, NJ Amnesty International
> Alan Smith
> 200
>
> Mt. Laurel, NJ Elsa Tchourumoff
> 2000
>
> Pittman, NJ SFT- Pitman HS
> Amanda Bliss (609) 589-8227 200
>
> New Mexico
> Santa Fe, NM Project Tibet of Santa Fe
> Paljor Thondup (505) 982-3002 2000
>
> Tibetan Association of Sante Fe
> Lobsang Ngudup (505) 424-0963
>
> Albuquerque, NM Tibetan Association
> Ngawang Tsering (505) 219-3418 650
>
> New York
> Ancram, NY Carol Borghi (518) 329-3243 100
>
> Astoria, NY SFT- Hunter College
> Kendal Metz (718) 204-0578 1300
>
> Ithaca, NY Tibetan Association of Ithaca
> Urgen Khetasang (607) 272-2319
>
> Ithaca (Cornell) Steven G.
>
> Kenmore, NY Martin McGee 500
> (2nd)
>
> New York, NY Office of Tibet (212) 213-5010 2000
> Glen Kelley
>
> New York, NY SFT- NY
> Paul Donowitz (212) 533-5705 2000
>
> New York, NY Theatre for Human Rights
> Diana Takata (212)730-9500 1000
>
> New York, NY Office of Tibet
> Chimie Thonden (212) 645-5110 x3006
>
> New York, NY SFT- NYU
> Katie Thomas (212) 260-4190 1300
>
> New Paltz, NY SFT- SUNY New Paltz
> Steve Jones (914) 257-5335 100
>
> Port Washington, NY SFT-Pt. Washington
> Bernard Pollack (516) 883-7210 2000
>
> Poughkeepsie, NY SFT- Vassar
> Sophia Conroy (914) 451-3957 1280
>
> Rochester, NY Friends of Tibet
> William Grady (716) 442-7305 100
>
> Dharma Center
> Frank Howard (716) 385-8862 2560
>
> Staten Island, NY SFT
> Tara Gibson (718) 967-0180 650
>
> Syracuse, NY Student Environmental Action Coalition
> Ami Dalal (315) 443-7652 100
>
> Mt. Tremper, NY Tibet Learning Resource
> Dan Capper (914) 688-9829
>
> Dobbs Ferry, NY SFT- Dobbs Ferry NY
> Chris Grandy (914) 693-1112
> Ohio
> Gambier, OH SFT- Kenyon College
> Jason Mowery (614) 427-6880 2500
>
> Findlay, OH Prof. of Fine Arts, Univ. of Findlay
> Philip Sugden (419) 422-0498 100
>
> Cleveland, OH Mathew Porter (440) 777-2693 640
>
> Oklahoma
> Tulsa, OK Johanna Tuberville
>
> Oregon
> Portland, OR Jigme Topgyal (360) 384-7245
>
> North Bend, OR Michael Bottoroff (541) 756-3699) 100
>
> Pennsylvania
> Bala Cynwyd, PA Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia
> Ken Klein (610) 668-2776 650
>
> Drums, PA SFT- Bishop Hafey High School
> Megan Dempster (717) 788-1986 650
>
> Murraysville, PA Pittsburgh Friends of Tibet
> Jay Stokes (412) 327-9505 1300
>
> Philadelphia, PA US Tibet Committee- Philadelphia, PA
> Carolyn Holland (215) 824-2928 2500
>
> State College, PA Tsering Yangky (814) 861-1368 1300
>
> Hanover, PA SFT- Lucerne County College
> Bret Hunter
> 200
>
> Broomall, PA Mark Friedman
>
> Carlisle, PA SFT- Dickinson College
> Erin Dempster
> 650
>
> Mansfield, PA SFT- Mansfield Univ.
> Cindy Albano (717) 662-5769 1280
>
> Connellsville, PA Jessica Semzock (412) 628-4470 1000
>
> Rhode Island
> Providence, RI SFT- Brown Univ.
> Noah Raford (401) 963-4006 1000
>
> Tennessee
> Chattanooga, TN SFT
> Lauren Halle (423) 763-4121 1280
>
> Texas
> Austin, TX Tibetan Association of Texas
> Dawa Tsering (512) 478-8521 200
>
> Bill Shier (512) 837-7602 3000
>
> Dallas, TX Joan Klein (214) 821-5393 1920
>
> Chris Tansil (214) 987-4476 1920
>
> Utah
> * Salt Lake City, UT Utah Tibetan Association
> Tsewang Ngudup (801) 364-4471 1300
>
> Utah Friends of Tibet
> Bob Palais (801) 487-8930 1300
>
> Snowlion Expeditions
> Ron Barness
> 400
> Vermont
> Burlington, VT Tibetan Association of Vermont
> Yangchen Tsering (802) 862-0603 300
>
> Middlebury, VT SFT- Middlebury Coll.
> Robb Wood
>
> Virginia
> Charlottseville, VA Tibetan Association of Charlottesville
> Tashi Dolker (804) 296-7343 2000
>
> Portsmouth, VA St. Christopher's Episcopal Church
> Jane Flaherty
> 200
>
> Virginia Beach, VA Redwood Tree Ink
> Beth Redwood (757) 491-3342 200
>
> Williamsburgh, VA Thomas Gallagher (757) 564-0085 1280
>
> Washington
> Camas, WA Northwest Tibetan Association
> Jigme Topgyal (360) 384-7245 650
>
> Seattle, WA Tibetan Rights Campaign
> Susan Gleason (206) 547-1015 5000
>
> Seattle, WA Tibet Education Network
> Jon Garfunkel (206) 781-2342 100
>
> Seattle, WA Tibetan Association of Washington
> Tsultrim Shakabpa (206) 643-6703 150
>
> Wisconsin
> La Crosse, WI Anita Streich (608) 784-8713
>
> Madison, WI Tibetan Association of Wisconsin
> Tashi Samdup (608) 242-8815 50
>
> Wisconsin Tibetan Association
> Namgyal Dolker (608) 244-3976 500
>
> SFT
> Moj Azemun
> 500
>
> Milwaukee, WI Gary Staples (414) 483-9591 650
>
> Platteville, WI SFT- Platteville
> Virginia Emmons (608) 348-9370 2000
>
> Wyoming
> Jackson, WY Tibet Information Network
> Alana Guarnieri (307) 733-4670 400
>
> # # #
>
> International Action
> Australia
> Paul Bourke Australia Tibet Committee
>
> Brazil
> Osasco, S.P. Elton Melo
>
> Canada
> Calgary, ALB Canada Tibet Committee- Alberta
> Lobsang Dorjee (403) 24-8366 2000
>
> Canmore, ALB Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
> Baiba Morrow (403)678-2901 650
>
> Cortenay, B.C. John Howard Society
> Jeane Day (250) 335-1208 2500
>
> Vancouver, B.C. Canada Tibet Committee of Vancouver
> Miguel Llora
> 2500
>
> Longuevil, QUE Tibetan Cultural Association of Quebec
> Thupten Champa (514) 679-6978
>
> Toronto, ONT Phuntsok Jhorden (416) 269-9701
>
> Halifax, NS Lhadong Tethong (902) 429-6951 2000
>
> South Africa
> Durban Tibet Society of South Africa
> Renato Palmi 27-31-5791213
>
> U.K.
> London Alison 44-171-359-7573
>
> # # #
>
> HILO TO PARTICIPATE IN SEVEN DAYS FOR TIBET ACTION
>
> The Big Island International Campaign for Tibet committee will have an
> information booth this Saturday at the Mamo Street Circus Tent Market as
> part of the national SEVEN DAYS FOR TIBET educational campaign. The
> campaign coincides with Friday's release of the internationally acclaimed
> film, "Seven Years In Tibet" -- the true life saga of an Austrian
> mountaineer who, during World War II, escaped from a British POW camp in
> India, climbed over the Himalyas to Tibet and befriended the young Dalai
> Lama.
>
> Since 1950 when Communist Chinese armed forces invaded Tibet, over 6,000
> monasteries in Tibet and their contents -- irreplaceable jewels of Tibetan
> culture -- have been destroyed, and more than a million Tibetans have died
> from torture, starvation and execution.
>
> Tibetans are routinely imprisoned and tortured by communist Chinese for
> non-violently expressing their views. Nuns are brutally raped in communist
> prisons. Freedom of religion is severely curtailed.
>
> The Big Island International Campaign for Tibet committee will be at the
> Mamo Street Circus Tent Market this Saturday to talk story and suggest
> concrete, non-violent ways you can kokua the people of Tibet.
>
> We look forward to seeing you. Mahalo.
>
> FOR MORE INFORMATION:
>
> Big Island: Anson Chong, Anson_Chong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ph. 974-7462
> Oahu: Joshua Cooper, Joshua@xxxxxxxxxx, Ph. 734-0117
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> end WTN 97/10/10 21.45 GMT