JOIN A PROTEST :
In many of the major metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and Asia, the Tibetan communities and supporters are already gearing up for the Tibetan Uprising Day on March 10th. Below are some of the locations, times and contact info of protests that we know are taking place.
Toronto:
9:30 am: March from Queen's Park to Canadian Olympics Committee office to Chinese Consulate.
We will be Marching from Olympic Plaza 218 7 Avenue Southeast, Calgary, Alberta to The Chinese Consulate SUITE 100 , 1011-6TH AVE., S.W. , CALGARY , ALBERTA , CANADA , T2P 0W1
4:00 pm: Starting at the Olympic Plaza to be at the Chinese Consulate for 5:15 and at the Chinese Consulate for the remainder of the demonstration.
Contact: bhutila@studentsforafreetibet.org
Ottawa:
11:45 am: Parliament Hill
Contact: wangdu_dorjee@live.ca
Victoria:
Contact: brandy@studentsforafreetibet.org
Vancouver:
Contact: hayfa.abichahine@gmail.com
Calgary:
Contact: dorje@riseup.net
Montreal:
Busses to Ottawa (there is no Chinese mission in Montreal)
8:00 am: Monday, March 10th 2008, the departure will be held at Terminus/Métro Longueuil, exit on de Sévigny. Then, the same buses will reach at 8:30am the corner of Queen Mary and Décarie (Snowdon Métro).
We will leave early, and arrive in Ottawa around lunch time. It is strongly recommended that you bring a lunch to eat on the bus and snacks. We will protest from 11:45am to 3:30pm (approximately). It would be appreciated that you bring Tibetan Flags, signs…
About the cost of the bus, it is a voluntary contribution to cover transportation costs which are assumed by Canada Tibet Committee We will leave Ottawa around 3:30pm and we will be back around 6:30pm in Montreal.
Contact: chris@studentsforafreetibet.org
Dharamsala:
Contact: tenchoe@studentsforafreetibet.org
Kolkata:
11:00 am - 7:00 pm We will be doing a sittin protest and signature campaign and will end it by doing a candle light vigil to pay homage to all the fredom fighters who have laid there lives.
Additinal Events - Signature Campaign and Film Screening
Contact: sftkolkata@gmail.com
New Delhi:
Contact: shibayan@studentsforafreetibet.org
London:
10.30 am: Protestors will assemble opposite the Chinese embassy, 49-51 Portland Place W1 on Sat March 8. The march will start at 11:00 am: and will lead down Regent Street, through Piccadilly Circus, down
Haymarket, across Trafalgar Square and down Whitehall. After delivery of
the petition to 10 Downing Street the March will swing through
Parliament Square and end on Palace St SW1 where a rally will take place. Time of rally approx: 12:30-1pm.
2.30 pm: A cultural event will take place at Westminster Cathedral Hall
(Ambrosden Avenue), SW1 from. The day’s events are organised
jointly by the Tibetan Community in the UK, Tibetan Youth in UK,
Students for a Free Tibet, the Tibet Society and Free Tibet Campaign.
Talk & Tribute Concert; Saturday 8th March:
7:00 pm: At this unique event in London the six members of the "Drapchi 14" now in exile, who between them spent 71 years in prison, will speak of their time in prison, their exile from Tibet, their continuing struggle for freedomfor their homeland, and will sing some of their freedom songs originally sung in prison in 1993. The evening will also include a tribute concert to the "Drapchi 14" by UK-based Tibetan artistes. The reunion will also mark the 10th anniversary of protests inside Drapchi Prison in 1998, after
which five nun inmates died as a result of beatings and maltreatment at the hands of the prison authorities.
Venue: Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London, W1R 1LD Price: £10, children under 14 free with parents
Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus or Bond Street
Website: www.drapchi14reunion.com
Contact: dalha@drapchi14reunion.com
Contact: pema@sftuk.org
Manchester:
Contact: Luke@sftuk.org
Lisbon:
6:30 pm: March starting from Rossio to Cais do Sodré.
Oporto:
6:00 pm: March starting from Leões until Praça Batalha.
Funchal:
6:30 pm: Concentration and Speech at Parque Santa Catarina,
Aveiro:
6:30 pm: Press release on the situation of Human Rights violations in Tibet, Hotel Imperial
Contact: alexa.mcorreia@gmail.com
Marseille:
2:00 pm: 3/8/08 at "place Monthyon"
Strasbourg:
2:00 pm: 3/808, 45 "place Gutenberg"
Paris:
3:00 pm: 3/9/08, "Place du Trocadéro"
Chartres:
2:30 pm: 3/9/08, Marche de soutien au peuple tibétain de 10 km. Départ at "parking des 3 ponts à Chartres"
Dijon:
10:00 pm: 3/08/08, "place François Rude à Dijon autour de la Fontaine du Bareuzai"
Lille:
2:30 pm: 3/8/08,
"Place des buisses , entre Euralille et la gare Lille Flandres".
Lyon:
6:00 pm: 3/10/08, "Place de la Comédie"
Contact: alexis@tibetlibre.org
Contact: Marseille@tibetlibre.org
CAEN:
3:30 pm: 3/9/08, location : "l’esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville de Caen "
Contact : caen@tibetlibre.org
Munich:
9:00 -12:00 pm - Demonstration in front of the Chinese Consulate
6:00 - 07:00 am - Candle Walk across the city in Munich
7:00 - 09:00 am - Chanting/Speeches/Praying at the square called Stachus
Contact: tibet-munich@t-online.de
Contact: ingehermans@pandora.be
The Hague
Tibet Support Groep Nederland and ICT organize a march.
14.00 Gather at Het Plein
14.30 Peaceful march to the Chinese embassy
15.30 Rally in front of Chinese embassy
16.30 Closing
Contact: info@tibet.nu
New York City
8:00 am: Converge in front of the New York Supreme Court (60 Centre Street #700, NY NY 10007)
11:00 am: Rally at the United Nations Plaza
1:30 pm: Rally at the Chinese Consulate
3:30pm Closing Ceremony In Union Square
By Subway: Take the 4, 5, 6 train to the City Hall station
Contact: kala@studentsforafreetibet.org
San Francisco and the Bay Area:
9:00-10:00 am - Tibetan flag-raising ceremony at Berkeley City Hall (2180 Milvia St)
10:00-10:30 am - March to BART Station (leave for Civic Center, San Francisco)
11:00-12:30 pm - Demonstration/Speeches at San Francisco City Hall
12:30- 1:00 pm - March to Chinese Consulate
1:00- 3:00 pm - Demonstration/Speeches at Chinese Consulate (Geary Blvd & Laguna St)
3:05- 4:30 pm - March to San Francisco Chinatown Portsmouth Square
4:30- 5:00 pm - Chanting/Speeches/Praying at Portsmouth Square
5:00- 5:30 pm - March to Union Square
5:30- 6:30 pm - Candle Light Vigil at Union Square
Contact: thupten@studentsforafreetibet.org
Los Angeles:
Contact: nonodolma@hotmail.com
Washington DC:
10.00 am - 5.00 pm: We will hold a prayer vigil in front of the Chinese Embassy Location: Chinese Consulate in DC
Address: 2300 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC
Contact:
Charlottesville, Virginia:
9:30 am: We will be having a cross-city march, gathering in front of City Hall, where the Tibetan flag will be
flown.
Contact: dalias@aerifal.cx
Contact: tseyangsihle2@yahoo.fr
Madison, Wisconsin:
9:00 am: Gather at University Library Mall.
9:3 0am: Start procession.
11:00am: Gather at the state Capitol.
Introduction of the day by M.O.C
Speech from local political members.
Speech from SFT Madison Chapter.
Speech from 2 students of the Tibetan Saturday School.
Speech from young College/University Students.
Message of His Holiness the Dalai Lama read by Tsering Namgal La.
WTA Speech by Lobsang Tenzin.
Words of Truth prayer.
Tibetan National Uprising Song.
Tibetan National Anthem.
American National Anthem.
Contact: sft.uwmadison@gmail.com
Chicago:
11 am - 7 pm: March 9, 2008 Training Workshop, to build better activists. WHERE: Tibetan Community Center of Chicago (950 West Carmen Avenue)
3:00 pm: March for Tibet Monday, March 10th Watertower Place to Chinese Consulate
Contact: abi.scott@gmail.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico:
9:00 am: The Santa Fe Tibetan Asscoiation Center at 915 Hickox Street
11:00 am: NM State Capitol (Roundhouse) at 490 Old Santa Fe Trail
12:30 pm: Santa Fe Plaza Downtown
Contact:
Minnesota:
10:00 am - 3:00pm: Starting at the State Capitol, we will begin with the Tibetan National Anthem followed by the commemoration of March 10th. Then the march around Downtown St. Paul.
Contact: sft@umn.edu
Texas, Houston:
Contact: shadowclad17@fastmail.fm
Kentucky:
Contact: drukdakt@berea.edu
Mexico City:
5pm: Meet at Angel de la Independencia, Avenida Reforma, Mexico City (Independence Angel, Reforma Avenue. Mexico City)
Contact: exa@tibetnetwork.org
* If there is a protest taking place in your town and it is not listed
here, please let us know by writing to kala@studentsforafreetibet.org.
