Thank You Tibet!
by Danny Fisher
This from the Tibet Fund:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2009FROM: The Tibet Fund
Contact: Rinchen Dharlo or Robyn Brentano
212-213-5011Global Campaign to Support the Tibetan People and Celebrate the Survival of Tibetan Culture is Launched
The Tibet Fund, Peace Jam Foundation, the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education have joined forces to launch Thank You Tibet! a global campaign to celebrate the survival of Tibet’s great culture of wisdom and compassion and to support the Tibetan people’s steadfast commitment to nonviolence as a path to peace over 50 years in exile.
Nobel Peace laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Mairead Maguire, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Shirin Ebadi, Betty Williams, and Wangari Mathaai have signed a Statement of Support to launch the campaign, and Williams, Maguire, and Ebadi personally delivered it to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India where they held a press conference stating that the Tibetan people “have set themselves as a model for the world, of nonviolence, truth, democracy and resilience.”
The campaign calls for messages of hope and support to build a groundswell of support for the Tibetan people at a time when their culture and identity are at great risk of disappearing in Tibet. People can sign the Nobel Laureates’ Statement of Support and upload their own messages in any medium-videos, music, visual art, photography, and text-to a dynamic website, www.thankyoutibet.org. The campaign will culminate on March 4, 2010 at a major event in New York City featuring interfaith leaders, Nobel laureates, celebrities and performances by Tibetan and non-Tibetan artists. Messages from the campaign will be projected throughout the event.
