With all the Olympic actions for Tibet taking place and particularly the incredible success of the ‘opening’ banner action outside Beijing’s ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium on Aug. 6th and subsequent media storm here in the UK, it took some time to get FT08.TV ready for prime time.

But with the dedicated help of lots of people, SFT’s new video channel is up and running, and filled with lots of must-see on-demand content, including inspiring Tibet activist video-profiles, action reports, video-blogs, and more.

We’re also airing a nightly Windhorse Report live from London with SFT leaders Tenzin Dorjee and Han Shan – a roundup of reports from Beijing and around the world during the Olympics, with breaking news about protests, call-in interviews with news-making activists, episodes of SFT-TV (the efforts of SFT’s global grassroots), and info and analysis about the situation on the ground in Tibet.

There will be more and more compelling content to watch every day and we’ll be improving the channel/website as we go (after all, this is but one small facet of our Olympic efforts right now). But please come check it out: surf around the many videos on the channel, or watch the stream (click on “Streaming Now” in the upper left-hand corner). Last but not least, you’re invited to submit video… check out the channel for more on what we’re looking for.

Please help spread the word about FT08.TV– join the facebook group, blog about it, embed the videos, spam your address book – and of course, keep watching.

And don’t forget to visit SFT’s Olympics Campaign website: www.FreeTibet2008.org and SFT’s blog: www.blog.studentsforafreetibet.org for more news and analysis from the frontlines of the current global effort to make Olympic history for Tibet.

Note: many thanks to Nathan Dorjee, Shannon Service, Andi Mignolo, Alex Fountain, Thupten Nyima, Kala Mendoza, and many others for helping to make FT08.TV happen at this critical time.
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(As Dave Barry would say: perhaps you do not believe America still has a Whig Party. Perhaps you are a fool. This is a bad analogy, in fact, since the modern Whig platform sounds like one that actually got press recently.)

For a critique of so-called revolutionary nationalism, I’d recommend Fredy Perlman’s “The conitnuing Appeal of Nationalism”.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/perlman-fredy/1984/nationalism.htm

I like this sentence because it contains the seed of its own failure.

Hahaha! I just laughed out loud at my local library. LOL, very true very true.

Listen, you Stalinists!

I like this sentence because it contains the seed of its own failure.