པད་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ། 🪷
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tibetan-nepali (མོ/she). daughter of refugees. residing on stolen lenape lands. director @sfthq. opinions, own.
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Joined June 2019
Tibet is not a part of China. Tibetans are not an ethnic minority. Tibet will be free again.
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As a Tibetan, as a milk tea drinker, an activist, and a believer in the power of the people — I stand with the people of Myanmar. We are the only ones that can create the revolutions of our time. #SolidarityWithMyanmar #MilkTeaAlliance
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I wrote “Free Palestine” and “Free Tibet” in the same tweet. The 2 categories of commenters:. 1. Tibetans deserve freedom but Palestinians deserve colonization bc they are all terrorists. 2. Palestinians deserve freedom but Tibetans deserve colonization bc they are all ops. 🤦🏽♀️.
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Update, I am no longer detained 🙏🏽 Thank you to everyone. In particular, let it sink in that if I was in Tibet right now, I probably wouldn’t see my friends and family for months, if not years. Om mani padme hum #FreeTibet.
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Happening now: thousands of Tibetans in New York march from the PRC Consulate demanding the media to stop defaming HH the Dalai Lama ✊🏽. Protesters chanted “Long Live the Dalai Lama!” “China out of Tibet now!” And “Tibet belongs to Tibetans!” . #IStandWithDalaiLama #Freetibet
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We have been involuntarily detained by the Greek authorities without reason. We were standing on the side walk where the other police told us we can stand. No one even has a tibet t shirt on. We just look tibetan.
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Liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our Times. Photo from this week’s protest against Dictator Xi at SFO Airport. An anonymous Hong Kong activist waved the HK Revolution Flag while wearing a mask of solidarity with Uyghurs. We are the ones we have been waiting for ✊🏽
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I am not a war monger. I don’t want a Cold War. I don’t hate Chinese ppl. I am the daughter of refugees & the granddaughter of nomads. All I want is for my people to have freedom. We must be the generation to find a two state solution for the decades long Sino-Tibetan conflict.
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Our collective struggles for freedom are forever intertwined. Free Tibet. Free Palestine. ✊🏽. Tibetan student activist Kunkie from SFT DMV at this week’s RISE UP AGAINST XI protest in San Francisco, where Palestinian students also led mass mobilization actions at the APEC Summit.
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1/ In Tibetan, my name is པད་མ་སྒོལ་མ། Each mark represents 1000’s of years of Tibet’s culture. པད་མ་ is the lotus that blooms in muddy waters, སྒོལ་མ་ is the female deity of liberation. In Mandarin, my name is 杜培吗, empty sounds that eradicate my identity & culture.
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Hours before #Beijing2022 with #Uyghur camp survivor Tursunay outside @NBCNews: some employees gave us thumbs up or spoke w/ us abt human rights. They all said the same thing: “I can’t risk my job.”. The tragedy of well meaning silent ppl is what allows genocide to exist in 2022.
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None of us is free until all of us are free. #FreeThailand.#FreeTibet .#FreeHongKong.#FreeEastTurkestan .#FreeBurma.#FreePalestine .#Freedom4all
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Waiting outside the US China Business Council Dinner in SF for the coward dictator Xi Jinping to arrive so we can unwelcome him. Tibet will be free. Hong Kong will be free. East Turkestan will be free. Dictator Xi’s time is up.
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We Tibetans, HKers & Uyghurs will NEVER back down because we are fueled by our fierce love for our people suffering under Dictator Xi. Xi Jinping: YOUR TIME IS UP! The world is ready for a new era of a decolonization. Rise up against Xi: SF Chinese Consulate 11.14.23 @ 9:30 AM
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Seven decades ago when CCP forces entered #Tibet, my grandfather was a regular 19 yo. Not a solider. But still he sacrificed everything to protect our homeland. Tonight, thousands in #Ukraine are forced to make the same sacrifice. Om mani padme hum 🙏🏽🙏🏽🇺🇦. #UkraineUnderAttack.
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Before being detained were tailed by 3-4 Chinese plain clothes officers. When the Greek authorities came over, one of them was liaising with the Chinese under covers.
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As a Tibetan, I remember being 19 & seeing the HK activists. I was so inspired by their strength & courage. Thank you to all the countless nameless & faceless activists that have given everything for freedom. #香港加油 ✊🏽 Revolution of our times. #RofOT #RofOTOscars #Oscars2021
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Do you want to know what it’s like to be a Tibetan living in USA?. I walk into a store and see a group of rich Chinese foreign exchange students. Their privilege is built on the occupation of my ppl. Then Karen walks by at rolls her eyes at their “otherness”. Nothing makes sense.
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They initially said we can’t use our phones but I said I have a Greek lawyer and they allowed us to use our phones after I told them that. We are currently in the police station. They have seized all four passports.
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The emotion & pain in the eyes of the youth activists as young as 19 yrs is the most honest reflection of how Tibetans, Uyghurs, & HKers around the world today are feeling. #BoycottBeijing2022. So proud of these amazing activists. @SFTHQ @vtje_tyae. #MilkTeaAlliance #FreeTibet
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As a young Tibetan woman, I stand in solidarity with my Uyghur & Hong Kong sisters, today & every day. It is young activists from impacted communities that are demanding #BoycottBeijing2022 because we have seen, lived, experienced the CCP’s oppression.
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In Olympia… let’s play a game called “can you spot the CCP tail” #NoBeijing2022 #MilkTeaAlliance
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Today, something I never thought was possible happened. I have been a die hard Celtics fan since I was 13. I went to every game they had in DC when I lived & cheered them on. Today, one of them acknowledged my people’s struggle. Today, @EnesKanter cheered on #Tibet. Unbelievable.
🚨BREAKING🚨. @EnesKanter releases a solidarity message for Tibet! . Thank you Enes for your allyship and solidarity. From Tibet to Turkey, freedom for all! ✊🏽 . #FreeTibet
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my family still have the keys to the home my father was born in before china’s military occupation of tibet in 1959 🙏🏽 . may we all return home.
When Palestinians were forced out into exile during the Nakba, many kept the keys to their homes. They still have those keys to this day— passing it down with each generation— the belief is that strong in that they will return; that it's promised and only a matter of time.
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Free Tibet .Free East Turkestan .Free Hong Kong.Free Southern Mongolia.Free China . END THE CCP.
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The Tiananmen Square Protests are a collection of one million stories. One million souls that risked everything to protest for truth & freedom. To honor the activists who lost their lives on 4 June 1989, never forget. But also, never stop fighting. #TiananmenSquareMassacre
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Please do not refer to Tibetans as "ethnic minorities." Just don't do it.
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Happening now: #MilkTeaAlliance marches through Washington DC. Burmese, Thai, Hong Konger, Uyghur, Taiwanese, and Tibetans in solidarity ✊🏽 . 📸 @jooeysiiu
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@chamath In re-listening to this week’s podcast, I recognize that because the world was silent on the human rights crisis that caused my parents to flee their home, now that I’ve personally made it, I also encourage others not to care about the plight of anyone that isn’t themselves.
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NYC — Today’s rally was attended by 5,000 people. Thank you to @TheRTYCnynj for organizing such an important protest. The rally featured inspiring & motivating speeches by @TenzinTsundue la, @JigmeUgen la, @MPTenzingJigme la, and Chitue Dhondup Tsering la. #IStandWithDalaiLama.
Happening now: thousands of Tibetans in New York march from the PRC Consulate demanding the media to stop defaming HH the Dalai Lama ✊🏽. Protesters chanted “Long Live the Dalai Lama!” “China out of Tibet now!” And “Tibet belongs to Tibetans!” . #IStandWithDalaiLama #Freetibet
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To all the athletes who have spoken up in the past 24 hours using #WhereIsPengShuai: 1st & foremost, thank you 🙏🏽. 2nd, do you know that for millions of Uyghurs, Tibetans, & HKers the ordeal of Peng Shuai is a DAILY reality?. How can such a govt host the @Olympics? #NoBeijing2022.
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1/ After a violent attack by CCP thugs at today’s protest, I saw a Tibetan mother crying trying to run to her son. I was liaising at the time, trying to maintain safety. After the situation was deescalated, I just walked to the side and started sobbing.
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Three days in Greek prison for asking a single question: “How can Beijing be allowed to host the Olympics given that they are committing a genocide against the #Uyghur people.” . Welcome home @chemilhamoooo 🙏🏽. #FreeUyghur #FreeTibet #FreeHongKong
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If you have 30 seconds to help Tibetan, HKer, Uyghur & Taiwanese activists in Boston, pls fill your name & email to send a letter to the Tufts President asking to shut down their CI. We have a protest on Sat & every letter counts.
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If you are in #WashingtonDC tomorrow: join the #MilkTeaAlliance on the streets. We must stand alongside not only the ppl of #Myanmar, but all those that resist tyranny. Prayers to the 745 that lost their lives at the hands of the terrorist junta 🙏🏽. Protest details in comment.
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When the world’s eyes turn away, when media stop watching, when the temp drops below freezing & the wind howls on a quiet evening, the stories & voices of these human rights defenders still echo in our hearts. Never forget them. #Freedom4All #BoycottBeijing2022 #MilkTeaAlliance
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Decolonization and post-colonization are not the same thing. Any person or group that claims China is merely a victim of western colonization and not a colonizer itself is NOT fighting for a decolonized world. They are fighting for a post western colonized world.
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It’s depressing to see a bunch “PhDs” argue in 220 characters abt whether residential schools “benefit the poor indigenous kids” or whether it genocides your fucking culture. Going to go crawl in a hole & mentally recuperate before another day of being a human rights campaigner.
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Tibetan nomads have stewarded Asia’s water tower for thousands of years. We are now in a climate emergency. The voices of frontline communities like the indigenous nomads of Tibet MUST be given a seat at the #COP26 table. Thanks @taiwanplusmedia for covering this critical issue.
Like Taiwan, Tibet is deprived of an official @COP26 delegation, even though the Tibetan plateau provides freshwater to nearly half the world’s people. @RHoKilpatrick spoke to Tibetan climate scientists and advocates about climate change and its effects on Tibet.
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32 years for the world to learn from history. The IOC claim that the @Olympics are peace games. What does Thomas Bach know about peace? The CCP massacred students that wanted peace. Today, history still repeats. #NoBeijing2022 #June4
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Tomorrow will be my first day at #COP26. I’m a bit nervous, not sure what to expect but the #TibetClimateCrisis can’t wait. #China has gone as far as jailing & even murdering climate activists inside #Tibet that speak against them. Tibetans in exile must stand in solidarity. 🧵.
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It’s exhausting speaking to people who think that freedom for Tibet is a naive dream, rather than an ongoing, decades-long political struggle that millions of human beings would willingly give their lives for. Tibet will be free.
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You can confirm an account is paid for by the CCP if they used to harass Tibetan people’s twitter accounts by writing “Mao already freed Tibet” and have now started writing “Mao already freed Xizang (Tibet)” after they got the memo scolding them for not using colonial names….
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our work as activists can be tiring/lonely at times, but our community never fails to bring joy, a sense of purpose & love to my heart. tibet will be free. our people will be reunited. ✊🏽❤️. moments from the talent show during sft the netherlands’ conference this past weekend.
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We are ready for Global Day of Action! Are you? #NoBeijing2022 . 👉🏽�🏽 . FIND A PROTEST NEAR YOU! ✊🏽
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Self immolation in front of the Chinese govt police station was a final act of dissent against colonization. He made it clear: he did not want to be alive in Chinese custody, not even for one minute. The world must not ignore such a tragic reality for millions of Tibetans.
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1/ Tibet’s independent history is not only in my blood & bones, it’s in my ancestry. My paternal grandfather was an indigenous merchant from the Asan Newars, who are the indigenous people of Kathmandu valley in Nepal.
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Check out this thread to see why these youth activists (aged 18-24) decided to drop everything and go to DC to hold a 50+ hour long continuous vigil. I am so moved by their commitment to human rights and freedom ✊🏽. #FreeTibet #FreeHongKong #FreeUyghurs. #MilkTeaAlliance @POTUS.
These young people are part of the group who have continuously been in front of the White House for the past 24 hours. They will remain there until the conclusion of @POTUS's summit with Xi Jinping. This is why they decided to take action 🔽
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2/ Right now in Tibet, there are OVER 806,218 Tibetan children in Chinese govt colonial boarding schools. How many of them must grow up being called by the name that suits their colonizer’s tongue? . How many will be forced to forget the beauty of their identity?. #Decolonize.
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Free Tibet. Free Hong Kong. Free East Turkistan. Free Southern Mongolia. Do not for one second forget that the CCP and Dictator Xi are irrefutably undeniably irrevocably a colonial regime. No amount of propaganda can change that fact.
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EVERYONE!!! How many retweets to make sure @XHNews can report it to Xi??? #FreeTibet . 👉🏽LET’S MAKE SURE XI JINPING SEES THIS👈🏽.
Dear Brutal Dictator XI JINPING and the Chinese Government. Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people!. #FreeTibet
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The Biden Administration sent a message today that will be heard around the world. The message to Xi Jinping is that actions have consequences; Xi’s campaign of brutal genocide and crimes against humanity will not be received by the world in silence. 🧵.
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1/ just the pov of one tibetan-nepali indigenous girl living on stolen lands: . govt-run dna databases are dangerous, not only for tibetans but for EVERYONE. whether you're a leftie, a conservative, a hillary-clinton-liberal, an anarchist, you should be anti govt dna databases.
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Periodic reminder that it’s 2021 and @Twitter along with other members of the @unicode consortium STILL deny Tibetans proper representation by not allowing a Tibetan flag #emoji 🤦♀️ #insertTibetanflag
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China is scared enough of four people with a few flags and megaphones to round up hundreds of their united front goons. This shows just how powerful of a weapon nonviolent protest is. Grateful for these relentless activists. Tibet will be free ✊🏽.
Despite heavy police repression and Chinese intimidation, we are here in Budapest fighting back against CCP propaganda. Whether they like it or not, we are forcing Xi Jinping to see our message. #FreeTibet
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Seeing our homeland thru the eyes of our occupier. It fills me w/ sorrow to see fellow Tibetans waving their CCP issued flags & performing their culture for the man responsible for the occupation & genocide of millions. Seeing our sacred katha around Xi’s murderous neck.
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Last week, I asked you all to give 30 seconds to support Tibetan, Uyghur, HK, & Taiwanese friends in Boston. In 2 days, our campaign sent 700 letters to Tufts President. Yesterday, Tufts announced they are cutting ties w/ the Confucius Institute 🙏🏽 #MilkTeaAlliance
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3/ As young as 3 or 4 years old, innocent Tibetan children are being separated from their parents, family, & culture. This is genocide. Solidarity is not a noun. It is a verb. And right now, Tibet’s children need your solidarity. @mbachelet . Petition:
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Kyal Sin (Angel), age 19, murdered by the terrorist #Myanmar Junta . Tenzin Nyima, age 19, murdered by the Genocidal #CCP. Society has failed them. They were only 19 yo & forced to sacrifice their lives for what they believe in. #SayTheirNames #FreeTibet #WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar
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I wonder if this elderly tibetan man would be okay with @DanielDumbrill recording him for cultural Twitter clout if he knew that Danny boy claims the true Panchen Lama is an “exploited child of the CIA” and claims that @DalaiLama is governed by “Washington DC handlers”.
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Just got out from two amazing meetings - talking with HK friends abt olympics, and making big plans for GDA with Tibet activist friends! #NoBeijing2022 Global Day of Action is coming fast!!! Have YOU started making plans in your city??? 🤩.
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What the @celtics are doing right now—establishing new NBA norms around freedom of speech when it comes to criticizing the Chinese govt for human rights violations—is a reflection of our team’s integrity & spirit, both on & off the court! #BLEEDGREEN. @BCCoachStevens @EnesKanter.
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“The simple gesture of skipping out on the Opening Ceremonies can be a tremendous opportunity for athletes to show solidarity & compassion towards the Uyghur, Tibetan, HKer & Mongolian communities that have suffered unimaginable human rights violations.”.
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My father, grandparents & their parents before them for the past 11K+ years have protected Tibet’s glaciers. Now, colonization threatens to wipe Tibet and Tibetan people off the map. Climate orgs MUST directly acknowledge the painful ties between colonization & climate change.
The eastern Himalayas could lose as much as 60 percent of their ice by 2100, even in a low-emissions scenario. More than a billion people depend on meltwater from the Himalayas. As glaciers vanish, a water crisis looms. Read more @YaleE360:
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#COP26 Day 4: facts every climate activist should know… 🧵. 1/ Tibet’s rivers directly sustain 20% of the world’s population. The agricultural outputs from Tibet’s rivers ensure food security for over 50% of the world’s population. #TibetClimateCrisis.
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1/ I am a stateless daughter of #Tibet living on stolen lands. Last week, I was in Minnesota in solidarity w/ the indigenous ppl in their fight to #StopLine3. There was a moment when I was driving in Northern MN & I saw the pipeline w/ my own eyes—tears suddenly came rushing.
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I always used to be shocked that my HK activist friends could travel freely btwn HK & the rest of the world. As a Tibetan who is barred from my own motherland, that felt completely UNREAL to me. I never realized back then that I’d be alive to see this day. #StandWithHongKong.
Despite being away from HK, overseas activists still fear for persecution bc of the extradition treaties btn countries & China. "Every time when I’m looking at foreign countries to visit, I would always look at which places are safer to go."
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Reminder for CCP sympathizers on Twitter: residential schools for Tibetan children in 2021 is not okay. Concentration camps for Uyghurs in 2021 is not okay. You can’t be anti-colonization/anti-genocide AND pro-CCP. That’s just a fact. #Decolonize #FreeTibet #MilkTeaAlliance.
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The first thing I hope to see when #Tibet is free: remove the sinicized spelling, and reclaim our ancestral names. @DanielDumbrill get out of Tibet, Canadian colonizers have already taken Canada from the #indigenous. Now you are just turning colonization into a spectator sport!.
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This is the joking tweet I was posting before it happened….
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Youth activists @frances_hui and @chemilhamoooo are asking athletes: “can we talk?”. My message to athletes: it’s OK if you don’t understand what the heck is going on with #NoBeijing2022 #WhereIsPengShuai or #GenocideGames. But pls, let youth activists educate you! Talk to us.
The @Beijing2022 is coming & the @Olympics continues to gloss over #China's abuses & the disappearance of #PengShuai. #Olympians & #Athletes are urging for the truth - #WhereIsPengshuai?. This is a moment to become an ally. #AthletesWanted - Athletes, let's talk!.#NoBeijing2022
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In just 4 short weeks, I will have the honor and duty of representing Tibetans around the world in #Glasgow. Follow @SFTHQ to keep up with our preparations for #COP26. #FreeTibet #TibetClimateCrisis.
SFT & other Tibet groups will be attending @COP26, the UN's climate change conference in Glasgow! We will be making sure the #TibetClimateCrisis is being raised in this important space and are organizing TWO side-events!. STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION!. #COP26 #cop26glasgow
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Free Go Sherab Gyatso. Free Ilham Tohti. Free Joshua Wong. Free A-Nya Sengdra. Free Yalqun Rozi. None of these human rights defenders deserved to be jailed in the first place. Never forget that their prisons may be thousands of miles apart but their jailer is the same: the CCP.
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Here’s a thread of posters for a small handful of the 50+ #NoBeijing2022 protests & actions happening tomorrow. If you have a poster or info for another protest, feel free to drop it in the thread. #MilkTeaAlliance
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When he calls a rape survivor a “bold faced liar” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩. #BelieveUyghurWomen #MeToo
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Last night i was talking to my friend’s mom. She was a nun in #Tibet & escaped by foot for freedom. She said that she supports #BLM—her 6yo grandson is tibetan/black & she is grateful that black men & women are fighting to make this country safer for him. #BlackLivesMatter.
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5/ Tibet will be free. Hong Kong will be free. East Turkestan will be free. Dictator Xi might not know it, but his actions show that he knows the truth too: Xi is the most vulnerable he has ever been, and his time is coming to an end.
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It’s been a long campaign & we’re not done yet! Yesterday when the tiniest #NoBeijing2022 activist I’ve worked with so far asked me to hold his hand as he crossed the street to hand out fliers to NBC employees, I almost teared up. Our fight isn’t over. It can’t be.
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I really love when a white revolutionary comrade on Twitter explains why exiled Tibetans & refugees can’t speak up for our people… no worries tho, he got it 🙏🏽
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