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Remember March 10- 1959

San Francisco– Tibetans and supporters are taking to the streets of SF tomorrow to stand in solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet and to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising against China’s illegal occupation. Over a thousand Tibetan refugees from India, Nepal and Tibet call the Bay Area their home, many survivors of the exodus over the Himalayas triggered by the Dalai Lama's covert escape from his Chinese-occupied homeland on March 10, 1959. Local events will include the raising of the Tibetan National flag, banned by the Chinese government, at Berkeley City Hall. Protesters will gather in San Francisco for an energetic rally and march up Market Street through the heart of downtown San Francisco to City Hall and to the Chinese Consulate.

“March 10th is a day for Tibetans everywhere to be proud of our history,” saidTsering Dorjee, President of the San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, “Proud of our identity, proud of our ancestors who died protecting our homeland, proud of the courageous resistance of Tibetans inside Tibet, and proud of the younger generation who raise the flag of Tibetan freedom ever higher.”   

October 18, 2009 - The San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress celebrated the 40th Tibetan Youth Congress founding day on Octiober 7th, 2009 at the Berkeley City Hall with the Tibetan community in the Bay Area.

October 3, 2009 - San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress hosted it's 2009 Youth Basketball Tournaments at the Albany Middle School Basketball Court. The game went on for hours but the excitement was still on through out the whole day!  More then seven teams particpated representing the cities they currently reside in. Participants were from the age range of as young as 16 and and youthful as 32. The final game was between the two major cities currently holding many Tibetans.

San Francisco, September 20 – Tibetans and supporters gathered outside the Cow Palace arena today to protest the Chinese celebration commemorating the 60th anniversary of Chinese Communist Party’s rule in China.

SFRTYC declared that this event was unjust and celebrations should not be held due to the mere factor that many Tibetans are still being brutally murdered in Tibet since the rule of the communist party in Tibet.

April 29th marks Martyrs Day to commemorate all the courageous men and women of Tibet who have risked their lives or given their lives to keep our Independence movement alive. San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress organized this event to raise awareness of the sacrifice these freedom fighters took for the Tibetan cause.

On April 17th from 12pm to 3:30 pm we gathered in front of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco to protest the recent events in Tibet where a number of Tibetans were either sentenced for life or sentenced to death without a proper trial or lawyer for last year’s arson case.

San Francisco, CA, March 29- Tibetan Youth Congress of San Francisco led a protest yesterday with SFTEAM TIBET and local Tibetans and their supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area to combat the enforced celebration of “Serf’s Emancipation Day” in Tibet which they called “50 years of Enslavement”.

SFRTYC organized an event for TYC CENTREX Vice President Dhondup Dorjee la to speak directly to the Tibetan Youth in Exile and emphasize on the need for the youth’s involvement in the Tibetan movement.

More than hundred Tibetans and supporters took buses, arranged by SF Team Tibet, to Sacramento, the Capitol of California on March 16th to support resolution ACR 6 stating March 10th as “Tibet Awareness Day and Honoring the Dalai Lama” proposed by California Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee.

After weeks of extreme militarization with social and political repression in Tibet, hundreds of Bay Area Tibetans joined forces with SFRTYC to mark the one-year anniversary of the brutal Lhasa uprising of 2008.

Tibetans and supporters took the streets on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 to voice outrage at China’s extreme clampdown in Tibet and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising against China’s illegal occupation, when the Dalai Lama was forced to flee into exile. SFTEAM TIBET organized six Bay Area Tibetans to lobby in national capitals around the world to demand a strong multilateral response from global governments to pressure Chinese leaders to end their occupation of Tibet. The event began in Berkeley, where the Tibetan National flag raising event has been hosted by the City of Berkeley for the past 17 years to coincide with a resolution that was passed in the past years before with the support of Council member Kriss Worthington. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and City council member Kriss Worthington both honored the event with words of support.

Tibetans of all ages gathered to hear what prominent writer and activist Jamyang Norbu had to say about the critical issues surrounding Tibet in this “Modern” age. SFTYC organized this event in hopes of encouraging the Bay Area Tibetan community and especially the youth to understand the importance of the Tibetan struggle in this day and age.