President Obama: You Can Help Broker a Resolution for Tibet

Dear everyone,

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will meet with U.S. President Obama this
Thursday, February 18th, at the White House – their first meeting since
President Obama took office.

President Obama reads 10 messages from the public each day and we want to
make sure this week, he reads about Tibet. If we send 3,000 faxes by
Thursday we will more than double the number of faxes he would normally
receive (an average 1,000 per day) demonstrating that Tibet is a priority
for the American public, and indeed for the world.

*TAKE ACTION: Please personalize and fax a letter to President Obama
now.<http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/obama_dalailama>
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The historic meeting comes just days after the start of Losar, the Tibetan
lunar new year, and amidst reports of fresh protests in Tibet. Sources in
Ngaba, in eastern Tibet, report that on Sunday, February 14th, the first day
of Losar, more than 400 Tibetan monks and laypeople sat down in the main
town square and chanted prayers of mourning for the Tibetans killed in the
2008 Uprising. Chinese security forces surrounded them and cut off their
communications. Read
more.<http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=26618&article=Tibetan+New+Year+marked+with+protest+in+Tibet>

As Tibetans in Ngaba and all over Tibet continue their courageous resistance
to Chinese rule, now is the time for our leaders to take bold and new
approaches to securing a negotiated resolution for Tibet.

*Please take the following actions:*

1) Personalize and fax the letter below to President Obama asking him to do
everything in his power to facilitate a meeting between His Holiness the
Dalai Lama and Chinese President Hu Jintao this year.

If there was ever a time to personalize your message, this is it. Especially
if you are Tibetan, now is an incredible opportunity to write a heartfelt
message that expresses why a resolution for Tibet is so important to you
and/or for the world.

2) If you have a Facebook account, please post a comment on the White House
fan page<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514360268&ref=profile#%21/WhiteHouse?ref=ts>urging
President Obama to help broker a just and lasting resolution for
Tibet.

3) Click here to post the action
alert<http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Fcampaign%2Fobama_dalailama>to
your Facebook wall and help spread the word.

4) Post a message for President Obama on this new campaign website developed
by ITSN in conjunction with SFT: www.ihearttibet.org. These messages will
also be faxed to the White House before Thursday.

Tibet will be Free!

Tendor, Kate, Schuyler, TenDolkar, Lhadon and all of us at SFT HQ


<http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/obama_dalailama/8egxg7ir1jtjwmi8?>

Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
President Barack Obama

Below is the sample letter:

Subject: You can help broker a negotiated resolution for Tibet.

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

This message comes to you during Losar, the Tibetan New Year, with my
sincere hope that your meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be a
historic milestone in the peaceful struggle for human rights and freedom in
Tibet.

Specifically, I urge you to offer to facilitate a meeting between His
Holiness the Dalai Lama and China's President, Hu Jintao. A face-to-face
meeting will signal the beginning of real progress towards a just and
lasting resolution for Tibet.

After nine frustrating rounds of talks between the Dalai Lama's envoys and
China, a breakthrough is needed for progress to be made towards a negotiated
resolution to China's occupation of Tibet. Your desire to pursue fresh
approaches to long-standing conflicts makes you uniquely positioned to
facilitate a meeting between Hu Jintao and the Dalai Lama, your fellow Nobel
peace laureate and one of the most respected global leaders of all time.

If there was ever an opportunity to inspire cha nge for Tibet, this is it.
Please do everything in your power to seize this opportunity.

Sincerely,

Tenzin Dolkar

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What's At Stake:
This first meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President Obama,
since he took office in January 2009, is an opportunity to push for a new
approach to finding a negotiated resolution for Tibet.

After nine frustrating rounds of dialogue between the Dalai Lama's envoys
and the Chinese government, a breakthrough is needed. If President Obama
publicly offered to facilitate a meeting between the Dalai Lama and Chinese
President Hu Jintao, it would signal the beginning of real progress towards
a  just and lasting resolution for Tibet.

President Obama reads 10 messages from the public each day and we want to
make sure this week, he reads about Tibet. If we send 3,000 faxes by
Thursday we will more than double the number of faxes he would normally
receive (an average 1000 per day) and demonstrate that Tibet is a priority
for the American public, and indeed for the world.

Campaign Expiration Date:
March 18, 2010

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Tenzin Dolkar
USA Grassroots Director
Students for a Free Tibet International Headquarters

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M: + 917.664.5530

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