Please Help Tibet! Sign The Petition!

[lillies1978]

http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/6.php


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[roseyaire]

Done and doner.

[Zen O]

Signed and went back 3 times. still says...

461,371


461,371 have signed the petition in the last 48 hours. Help us get to 1,000,000

It would be an impressive number if it was accurate.

OK I just went back a fourth time and now it says...

462,167


462,167 have signed the petition in the last 48 hours. Help us get to 1,000,000

I repeat my qualifying statement.

[lillies1978]

as long as it helps i really don't care whether the counting thingy works or not , last night they send out an email:

Dear friends,

In just 36 hours, 253,553 of us have supported the Dalai Lama's call for dialogue and human rights in Tibet. This is an incredible response--if each of us can get 4 more of our friends to sign the petition, we'll hit 1 million this week! Just quickly forward the email below to your friends and family with a personal note from you-

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Dear friends,

After decades of suffering, the Tibetan people have burst onto the streets in protests and riots. The spotlight of the upcoming Olympic Games is now on China, and Tibetan Nobel peace prize winner the Dalai Lama is calling to end all violence through restraint and dialogue--he urgently needs the support of the world's people.

China's leaders are lashing out publicly at the Dalai Lama--but we're told many Chinese officials believe dialogue is the best hope for stability in Tibet. China's leadership is right now considering a crucial choice between crackdown and dialogue that could determine Tibet's--and China's--future.

We can affect this historic choice--China does care about its international reputation, and we can help them choose the right path. China's President Hu Jintao needs to hear that the 'Made in China' brand and the upcoming Olympics in Beijing will succeed only if he makes the right choice. But it will take an avalanche of global people power to get his attention. Click below now to join 250,000 others and sign the petition--and tell absolutely everyone you can right away--our goal is 1 million voices united for Tibet:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/21.php

China's economy is dependent on "Made in China" exports that we all buy, and the government is keen to make the Olympics in Beijing this summer a celebration of a new and respected China. China is also a sprawling, diverse country with much brutality in its past, so it has good reasons to be concerned about stability -- some of Tibet's rioters killed innocent people. But President Hu must recognize that the greatest danger to Chinese stability and development today comes from hardliners who advocate escalating repression, not from those Tibetans seeking dialogue and reform.

We will deliver our petition directly to Chinese officials in New York, London and Beijing, but it must be a massive number first. Please forward this email to your address book with a note explaining to your friends why this is important, or use our tell-a-friend tool to email your address book--it will come up after you sign.

The Tibetan people have suffered quietly for decades. It is finally their moment to speak--we must help them be heard.

With hope and respect,

Ricken, Iain, Graziela, Paul, Galit, Pascal, Milena, Ben and the whole Avaaz team

Here are some links with more information on the Tibetan protests and the Chinese response:

Crackdown in Tibet, but protests spreading:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/19/tibet.china
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...602289349.html

Dalai Lama calling for dialogue and restraint, and an end to violence:
http://www.dalailama.com/news.216.htm
http://www.agi.it/world/news/2008031...n0032-art.html

Leaders across Europe and Asia starting to back dialogue as the way forward:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7300157.stm

Chinese Prime Minister attacks "Dalai clique", leaves door open for talks:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_7813194.htm

[angelynn6726]

yesterday, I saw a man with a sign the said "free tibet" I had no idea what he was sayin , but now I do... thanx for the info

[Zen O]

I posted bulletins on Myspace, tribe , and care2 as well.

463,714


463,714 have signed the petition in the last 48 hours. Help us get to 1,000,000

[Zen O]

As of almost an hour ago...

596,194


596,194 have signed the petition in the last 72 hours. Help us get to 1,000,000

[Tear_of_the_WoLF]

yeah Naropa had a a huge thing today outside the school Free Tibet....it was good...

[proammar]

Why is it oky to free the Tibet but not any other country HMMMmmmm !!!!

[lillies1978]

who says it's not ok to free any other country?

[proammar]

The media & governments & then people like us follow them ..... i think This whole Tibet drama thing was caused from some outside forces to cause some troubles to the Chinese government .

Its all just a game .

media & governments disgust me so much ... Oh little poor Tibetans they shot with few tear gases & maybe few got killed ... loool what about Iraq .. Iraq used to be a real country & now its the worse place on earth MILLIONS got killed in there .. & now they show up on the media & talk about the victory they made in there hahahhaa ..

Life is a joke .

[lillies1978]

hm, i think i know what you are getting at, the things is though [IMO] tibet didn't really do anything in the first place, other then having the dalai lama which caused fear in the chinese government so they had him removed....tibet is a very spiritual place, which has sufferred for no reason!

iraq on the other hand is a bit of a different story, surely it wasn't justified to invade that country, yet i have prayed for a long time that someone will stop sadam hussein and i'm grateful that they did, even though i don't approve of their techniques! and as much as i understand that noone wants the americans there now, i can see it being difficult to bring them all home and maintain some sort of order in this country...it's not all that easy! My own husband is down there right now, for the second time, trust me, i really wish this was over!

[Zen O]

From an E-mail recieved from the petitions organizers. I must agree I have never seen a petition gain signatures so fast...

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Dear friends,

The global outcry over Tibet is rising fast - In just 5 days, 751,472 of us from 192 countries have come together to call for restraint and dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Even more amazing, we have told over 5 million of our friends about this important campaign - that's 1 million people per day!

A personal email from a friend is a powerful thing – it is helping to drive the global tide of concern. Let's push now to tell 5 million more friends, get over 1 million signatures this week, and deliver the largest global online petition in history to the Chinese government.
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[Zen O]

Dear friends,

We reached our target! In just 7 days over 1 million of us have signed the petition calling for human rights and dialogue in Tibet--the fastest growing internet petition in history. As the crisis continues, it's time to deliver our petition and make sure Chinese President Hu Jintao hears our voices.

An International Day of Action has been declared for Monday, March 31st. On Monday, thousands of people in cities across the world will march to Chinese embassies and consulates, and stack hundreds of boxes containing our petition outside them. 1 million signatures makes a mountain of boxes--it will send a powerful global message.

We have just 4 days left until the petition delivery. Could we get to 2 million signatures in 4 days? We can do it--if every one of us recruits at least one more friend to sign the petition by forwarding the email below.

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(The e-mail mentioned can be found in A previous post by lillies, so I will not repost it here.)

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