Today is the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Tibetan Spiritual and Political Leader’s 69th Birthday. The reason I am putting this up is because I can. Partly because I am currently in Australia, but also because I live in Hong Kong and unlike the people in what was the once independent country of Tibet, which was invaded in 1950 by the one year old communist government I can possess a photo of this man without breaking the law and arrested.
I am currently writing an column for popmatters about the (in some ways) myopic view of the Free Tibet Movement as viewed in the west, especially in the vein of pop culture such as the Tibetan Freedom Concert series as the more stretching view would be seeking a free China.
The working title is: Dear Bono, Bjork, and the Beasties, why just a free Tibet? How about a Free China? When it’s published I will be sure to let you know.
Otherwise Happy Birthday your holiness, I hope you can go home one day. If not one of your incarnates will. I am pretty sure of that.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Happy B-day, DL!
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Free China? Better point (than just Free Tibet).
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Free China? Better point (than just Free Tibet).
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Free China is butter, but Tibet is not China and certainly Tibetans are not Chinese.
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