Avaaz is an organisation that is trying to work for peaceful solutions to conflicts around the world. They have organised a petition in support of the people in Tibet which they are going to present to Chinese officials in London, New York and Beijing. They have already got a quarter of a million signatures but are hoping for many more and would like people to spread the word.
The link is here:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/21.php
The Dalai Lama - who in 1989 won the Nobel Peace Price for his commitment to non-violence in the quest for Tibetan self-rule - has called for talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Solving conflict by using the middle way, that of talks and peaceful protests, surely should be the way the world deals with dissent in the twenty-first century and not with troops with bayonets fixed, which is what is happening in China now according to a BBC journalist.
Millions of signatures: potentially people that will stop buying Chinese goods might make China find a new path.
Open the fortune cookie China.
What does it say?
“Free Tibet."
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