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Posted
on 15-Oct-01 03:03 AM
What follows is a from a social activist friend from Cambridge, Mass.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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If you have a FAX machine or can print and send an
international airmail letter, now’s the time. Your action
today could help save the life of Tibetan musician Ngawang
Choepel.
Ngawang, a Fulbright scholar and ethnomusicologist, was
given a very harsh 18 year prison sentence by Chinese
officials.
His crime? Videotaping traditional Tibetan
musicians and dancers. President Bush will travel to meet
with the Chinese premiere on September 20, so your letter of
support could help turn the tide for Ngawang and his
grieving mother, Sonam Dekyi.
I met his mother during her first trip to the U.S. three
years ago. I helped organize several fund raisers, peace
vigils and other media events at Harvard and in some
surrounding towns with Amnesty International and the local
Tibetan community.
Eugene Louie, Mercury news photographer and journalist, flew out from San Jose to continue documenting her journey and plight. Read more about Ngawang
and Sonam and view the video interview I made during her
visit at Dirck Halstead’s website (he is a photojournalist
for Time magazine):
www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9904/diary9.htm
Or go to www.savetibet.org for further information.
Ngawang is our brother, father, uncle, fellow musician.
Please take a minute to sign and send/FAX the attached
letter. It could save his life.
Yours sincerely,
Ruthie Ristich
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Skydancer Productions
375 Kingstown Road Narragansett RI 02882 401-783-2953
41 William Street Cambridge MA 02139 617-828-6097-cell
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