Robert Thurman on TED—& we thought we were his only live-to-video talk show.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jan 5, 2009

  vs.   TED's amazing: a sort of ongoing lecture series with all the people we wish we could get to. Well, when we have a huge talk show someday—whether on Planet Green or NBC ABC…

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Music Review: Universal Love (Nawang Khechog) & Winds of Devotion (R. Carlos Nakai, Nawang Khechog) via Sounds True.

By Todd Mayville on Aug 24, 2008

For those not familiar with Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog, he is one of the foremost Tibetan musicians today. A monk for eleven years, Khechog’s music has been nominated for a Grammy award, and he…

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Mao, Stalin, Hitler: they’re back in style. [NYT]

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Aug 16, 2008

With Russia strolling about Georgia, Zimbabwe going nuts, Bush detaining POWs off our territory so they won't be allowed basic America rights to trial, and China celebrating repression, censorship and genocide with the world's…

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Candle4Tibet, Phill Bartell & Olympic protests: China’s headache persists.

By Todd Mayville on Aug 8, 2008

In case you missed it, the Candle4Tibet light protest was last night at the Boulder County Courthouse on Pearl St. The ceremony was one of hundreds worldwide, and the pace of the protests hasn’t…

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Red Olympics Torch Relay ends with a Final, Brave, Futile (?) Protest.

By elephantjournal.com on Aug 6, 2008

Bird’s Nest Banner Action - Aug. 6, 2008    BBC reports that four foreignershave been arrested in Beijing for scaling 120-foot light poles and unfurling 140 square foot pro-Tibet banners outside the Bird’s Nest stadium during…

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Bjork “breaks Chinese law.” Tibet, Tibet! Won’t be invited to sing @ Chinese Olympics.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Aug 3, 2008

She starred at 2004's Olympics in Athens: …

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It’s almost like China around here: Tibet has Vanished from the News.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Aug 2, 2008

Long forgotten: the Goddess of LIberty at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. ~ Only a couple of months after the international protests of the torch relay and violence in Tibet, you gotta look long…

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Light a Candle 4 Tibet: August 7th.

By Todd Mayville on Jul 31, 2008

Light for Tibet in the 24 hours preceding the Olympic Games. THE SAD SMOKY MOUNTAINS & skyscrapers join Candle for Tibet campaign will ignite red smoke on hundreds of mountaintops, and on several skyscrapers…

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McCain meets with Dalai Lama in Aspen…and gets heat 4 it from Republicans.

By elephantjournal.com on Jul 26, 2008

From the Wall St. Journal: McCain Meets With Dalai Lama as Olympics Near Talks Bring China To the Forefront;  Distance From Bush By ELIZABETH HOLMES in Denver, JOHN D. MCKINNON in Washington and JASON DEAN in Beijing With the Beijing Olympics…

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Robert Thurman: Why the Dalai Lama Matters @ Tibet House in NYC.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 4, 2008

The first few seconds aside (I actually know Ravenna, the American Buddhist songstress), this talk (from Bob's book tour launch event at Tibet House in New York City approx two weeks ago) offers a preview…

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Yoga in the Olympics? Missing the point.

By Todd Mayville on Jun 30, 2008

Okay, now I know that I’m probably going to be called a purist or elitist of some sort, but the idea of turning yoga into a competitive Olympic sport seems to be taking things a…

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IOC may scrap Beijing Olympic torch relay over protests

By elephantjournal dotcom on Apr 9, 2008

VIA THE TIMES ONLINE The International Olympic Committee may scrap the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay as a result of the protests over China’s military crackdown in Tibet. Jacques Rogge, the…

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