{"id":6297,"date":"2009-03-11T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2009-03-11T09:52:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:52:51","slug":"commemorating-50th-anniversary-of-uprising-tibet-activists-change-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/03\/11\/commemorating-50th-anniversary-of-uprising-tibet-activists-change-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating 50th Anniversary of Uprising, Tibet Activists Change Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest031109\/2009_03_11_cusack.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest031109\/2009_03_11_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/media\/ALeqM5j0PvWsGWj7i7KFT387x_lqHV6ezQ?size=s2\" alt=\"tibet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tibetans and their supporters yesterday held commemorations in various countries around the world to mark the 50th anniversary of an uprising that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama. Demonstrations and other events were held in Australia, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan, Canada and here in the US. Hundreds of protesters marched through New York City to the Chinese Embassy, and on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a long-time supporter of Tibetan self-determination, introduced a resolution to Congress that would urge China to end its &#8220;repression.&#8221; Activists marked not only the 50th anniversary of the uprising, but the one year anniversary of massive protests against the Chinese government before last year&#8217;s Olympics Games. According to Human Rights Watch, hundreds of Tibetans were killed or are still in jail. Scores of Chinese police and other security checks have thus far stifled any planned protests in Tibet. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Dennis Cusack, San Francisco Bay area lawyer and writer, co-chair of the International Tibet Support Network, member of the Board of Directors and past-president of the Tibet Justice Center. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Tibetans and their supporters yesterday held commemorations in various countries around the world to mark the 50th anniversary of an uprising that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama. Demonstrations and other events were held in Australia, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan, Canada and here in the US. Hundreds of protesters marched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}