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SFRTYC would like to thank the Melong Band and the Pilgrims for making this Rangzen Concert a successful event! We hope to have more Rangzen concerts soon. Click View Album and read Melong's letter to SFRTYC.
San Francisco – Bay Area Tibetans and supporters will join human rights activists worldwide in condemning the Chinese government’s illegal execution of four Tibetans in Lhasa on October 20. The confirmed identities of the executed are Lobsang Gyaltsen, aged 27, Loyak, aged 25, and Penkyi, aged 21. A fourth unidentified Tibetan was also reportedly executed on the same day. Activists call on the U.S. government to immediately respond and denounce this travesty of justice, and ask for concrete action on Tibet by President Obama during his upcoming visit to China. Read full article. View Photo Gallery.
June 27, 2009- Representatives of nine Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) chapters in US and Canada met in Minneapolis for two days starting June 27 for the 9th Working Committee Meeting of the North American Regional Tibetan Youth Congress. Read more OR View photo gallery.
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. Read more OR View Photo Gallery.
April 25, 2009- SFRTYC organized a long life prayer and awareness for HH the 11th Panchen Lama, who has been missing for fourteen years. The prayers were officiated by the Gyuto monks and led by HE Khen Rinpoche Geshe Kachen Lobzang Tsetan, head abbot of Tashilhunpo monastery in South India. Read more OR View Photo Gallery.
March 28, 2009 - San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress 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”. Read more OR View Photo Gallery.
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. SFRTYC organized the event in commemoration of those Tibetan Freedom Fighters that rose up in what began as a peaceful protest last year on March 14th, 2008 in Lhasa, capitol of Tibet. Read more OR View Photo Gallery.
March 10, 2009 - 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. Read more OR Visit Photo Gallery.
March 9, 29009 - San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress along with SF TEAM TIBET organized a candle light vigil in memory of all the Tibetans who have perished in this movement for the future of Tibet. Announcements were also made regarding the March 10th schedule for the next day. View Photo Gallery.
March 8, 2009 - 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. Read more OR View Photo Gallery.
SFRTYC organized a Candle light vigil in memory of the Tibetans who have struggled in Tibet in accordance to the Tibetan Independence movement. View Photo Gallery.
March 1, 2009 - Young Tibetans in the Bay Area joined forces with SFRTYC to make effective banners that speak up for Tibet in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10th. View Photo Gallery.
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