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Riallacciandomi al mio post precedente, ecco il testo originale in inglese (come appare nella newsletter del 20/12/12 inviata da Tendor di Students for a Free Tibet):
REASON 1: Freedom is contagious. From Burma to Tunisia to Yemen to Egypt, democratic forces are winning, notwithstanding the growing pains. As freedom around the world expands, the brotherhood of dictatorships is increasingly isolated. This net growth in freedom and democracy worldwide will impact Tibet, China, and other leftover police states at every level – psychological, social, cultural, political. Each year the unfree world, led by China, is shrinking, leading to an erosion of CCP's domestic and global legitimacy.
REASON 2: Noncooperation in Tibet. Tibetan resistance has undergone a fundamental transformation in the last four years, as Tibetans embrace the tactics of noncooperation and direct intervention. Tibetan activists, who have traditionally relied on the high-risk protest tactics, are now adding to their arsenal a more low-key but potent tool of noncooperation: they're boycotting Chinese businesses, institutions, culture, even language. In Kardze and Ngaba, Tibetans avoid Chinese restaurants, choosing to give their business to Tibetan restaurants – a Gandhian example of economic noncooperation. In Khawa Karpo, tired of protesting the Chinese mining companies, Tibetan villagers pushed $300,000 worth of mining equipment into the river – a model of nonviolent direct intervention. Among all the nonviolent tactics, noncooperation and direct intervention have the best track record of dismantling the pillars of oppression.
REASON 3: Lhakar weaponizes culture. For six decades, we believed in the conventional wisdom that culture could survive only at the mercy of politics, and the politics of Tibet allowed little hope of survival. But Lhakar, a movement to use culture to promote freedom, has reversed five decades of China's campaign to sinicize Tibetan culture. Tibetans are using art, literature, poetry and music to express their desire for freedom and faith in the Dalai Lama. Songs, books and music videos with politically charged lyrics routinely become bestsellers. In many anti-colonial struggles, successful political revolutions were often preceded by a cultural renaissance, which is now in full swing in Tibet.
REASON 4: Internet = information = freedom. The Chinese government's hold on Tibet, as well as China, depends on its totalitarian control over information and ability to keep its masses ignorant. Today this control is fragile, thanks to the Internet. The Chinese government faces a much more formidable foe in its own people than it did a decade ago, because the speed at which information travels has advanced by light-years. Beijing's censorship apparatus is routinely defeated by the ingenuity of Chinese netizens searching for the truth. The government has lost its monopoly over information, as the internet continues to shift large chunks of power – raw and unstructured – over to the people.
REASON 5: Dictatorships age and die. Totalitarianism is a dead end. The CCP has been able to survive till now by tweaking its system, but tweaks are no longer enough to save it from growing public unrest, looming environmental devastation, endemic corruption and a slowing economy. According to China scholar Minxin Pei, one-party dictatorships have inherent flaws in their foundation that limit their existence beyond several decades, even in the case of the longest-lasting regimes. The Soviet Union crumbled in its 74th year, the Mexican regime in its 71st year, the Kuomintang in its 73rd year. The CCP is 63 years old and, Pei argues, has little more than 10 or 15 years left on its clock – if it's lucky enough to survive that long.
PS= Ho aggiunto altri 3 video tibetani al mio post precedente!
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Free Tibet ?!?! Free violence !!! |