Students for a Free Tibet Canada

This Ontario Tibetan Heritage month, we invite Tibetans of all ages in Ontario to tell us about your “Most Treasured Tibetan Book”. This is to preserve and share our history, culture and lived experiences.

This essay writing competition will be judged in three age groups with an encouragement to write a minimum number of words - 12 & under (150 words), 13 - 17 year olds (300 words) and 18 and over (750 words). We will be providing prizes to our winners and participants.

Books and essays in Tibetan or English will be accepted.

Send your essays by July 28 to [email protected]

A great opportunity to hear from renowned Tibetan poet and activist Tenzin Tsundue this Saturday 5 to 7pm at the Parkdale Centre for Innovation (1464 Queen St. W, Toronto).

🔊Rally tomorrow, April 26, at 4pm. Meet up at Masaryk Cowan Park - 220 Cowan Ave

Post secondary students! Applications for Ontario Parliamentary Friends of Tibet are now open. Details 👇🏽

Bhutila Karpoche MPP/Députée/གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི། Parkdale—High Park

Join us on Sunday! Rally and March for undocumented Tibetans, starting 2pm at Christie Pits.

RTYC Toronto
Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre-TCCC ༄༅། །གངས་ལྗོངས་ཆོས་ལྡན་གླིང་།
Tibetan Women's Association of Ontario
ཁེ་ན་ཌ་ས་གནས་མདོ་ཁམས་ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག Dhokham Chushigangdruk Canada
Canada Tibetan Association of Ontario-CTAO
Migrant Workers Alliance for Change
Bhutila Karpoche

Pawo Dhondup Wangchen has landed in Toronto 🙏

📚Protect Tibet’s Children📚

A conversation with acclaimed Tibetan education sociologist Dr. Gyal Lo about his research on China’s vast system of colonial boarding schools in Tibet. Since arriving in exile, he has spoken at the United Nations, the Canadian Parliament, and in front of other audiences to advocate for the cultural and language rights of Tibetans inside of Tibet.

🗓March 17th
📍Harmony Room (Tibetan Canadian Cultural Center)
⏰6-8pm EST

🎥This event will also be streamed live on the SFT page!

We are honoured to welcome Dhondup Wangchen for the first time in Canada, ahead of the Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10th. Dhondup Wangchen served six years in Chinese prison for his film, ‘ Leaving Fear Behind’ which documented Tibetans inside Tibet in the year leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. His fearlessness, his sacrifices and his film have inspired and continues to inspire many of us.

Are you a young person looking to get more involved in the Tibetan Freedom Movement? Eager to learn about how to effectively advocate for Tibet while meeting other Tibetans and allies who are passionate about human rights? If so, be sure to register for this upcoming introductory training TODAY! 💥

This years east coast conference in Toronto, Canada will take place from March 18-19. It will offer participants with trainings in campaign strategy, grassroots mobilization, public speaking, and more!

Register here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mQm3UGeURUyFLkJbUHjV008l8_QwimXhpiBs2jdkrNo/viewform?edit_requested=true

Recently, Human Rights Watch and Citizens Lab have reported that the Chinese government has launched a full scale campaign of biometric repression against Tibetans. The Chinese government has collected DNA samples from up to one third of the population of Tibetans living under Chinese occupation in the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region. This includes monks, nuns, nomads, families, and children as young as five years old. Thermo Fisher Scientific, an American manufacturing company, has been supplying the Chinese police with the technology and even DNA kits used to steal DNA from innocent Tibetans.

Thermo Fisher has a responsibility to its shareholders and the wider international community to conduct proper due diligence and ensure that the company’s products are not used for repression. In the case of Tibet, Thermo Fisher has completely failed its responsibilities. It is our job to hold the company accountable! Join the campaign by attending our rally in front of the Thermo Fosher office at 2845 Arengtina Road on Friday Feb3d.

You can also sign the petition to call on Thermo Fisher to STOP helping China steal Tibetan DNA!

Petition link:
https://secure3.convio.net/sft/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1120

🗓SAVE THE DATE🗓

Looking to develop your leadership, grassroots, and campaigns skills? Been wanting to get involved in the Tibetan Freedom Movement?

Then mark your calendar because SFT’s annual East Coast Conference is taking place the weekend of March 18th and 19th in TORONTO, Canada. It will be co-hosted by the Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario (CTAO)!

Applications for the 2022 summer internship program are now open! Learn more and apply: https://www.sftcanada.org/opportunities