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The West Coast came together this past weekend in Boulder, Colorado for SFT’s West Coast Conference.Over two days, parti...
05/20/2026

The West Coast came together this past weekend in Boulder, Colorado for SFT’s West Coast Conference.

Over two days, participants engaged in workshops on grassroots organizing, strategic nonviolent movement building, and public speaking — walking away with foundational organizing skills and renewed momentum for a free Tibet.

05/18/2026

Myinལགས་ནི་བོད་རང་བཙན་སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚོགས་པའི་འགན་འཛིན་ལས་ཚབ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། ཉེ་ཆར་ཁོང་ཉི་ཧོང་དུ་ཕེབས་ཏེ་ཨོ་ས་ཀ་ (Osaka) དང་ཧོག་ཀའི་ཌོ་ (Hokkaido) སོགས་ཀྱི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཚོར་ཉིན་གསུམ་རིང་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་སྤྲད་ཡོད། དེ་མ་ཚད་བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་ཞིག་ལའང་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད། གལ་ཏེ་ཉི་ཧོང་དུ་གནས་བཞུགས་སུ་རུང་ཞིག་གིས་ཉི་ཧོང་བོད་རང་བཙན་སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚོགས་པར་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ཚེ། ཚོགས་མིར་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་དང་ལས་འགུལ་ཁག་ཏུ་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཐུབ།

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གལ་ཏེ་ཉི་ཧོང་དུ་བཞུགས་ཡོད་ན་ ལ་Instagramརྗེས་འདེད་གནང་ནས་ཁོང་ཚོ་ལ་ཐད་ཀར་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ན་ཚོགས་མི་ཆགས་ཐུབ།

SFT HQ visited Japan last week and the energy was electric!Across three days, SFT Japan brought together a vibrant group...
05/18/2026

SFT HQ visited Japan last week and the energy was electric!

Across three days, SFT Japan brought together a vibrant group of youth from Osaka to Hokkaido. The sessions went deep into grassroots mobilization and strategic nonviolence — not just building tactical skills, but building the community and roadmap needed to sustain and escalate the movement for Tibet in Japan.

Beyond the training, the week included tabling at Tibet festival, a roundtable with activists and professor, a university talk, and a briefing to Japanese Parliamentarians. Each space offered a different avenue to strengthen the Tibetan Freedom Movement.

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05/18/2026

In 1995, China kidnapped a 6-year-old boy.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama. Three days later, Chinese authorities abducted him and his entire family, and installed their own puppet in his place.

To this day, despite widespread international condemnation, Beijing has refused to disclose credible information about his well-being or whereabouts.

His abduction underscores a systematic campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to suppress Tibetan religious freedom and weaponize the Tibetan reincarnation system–a key institution in Tibetan Buddhism–to to erode Tibetan leadership, erase Tibetan identity, and tighten its suffocating grip over the Tibetan people.

But legitimacy cannot be manufactured. Tibetans will always be the sole authority over their land, their leaders, and their future.

Free the Panchen Lama. Share this video.

05/14/2026

Canada is opening the door to Chinese electric vehicles, among them EV giant BYD.

While these cars are sold as a climate solution, BYD’s supply chain tells a different story. These vehicles are powered by the mineral lithium, and BYD sources its lithium from Chinese-occupied Tibet.

Lithium extraction is notoriously destructive, depleting water systems, poisoning soil, and devastating ecosystems.

In an occupied country like Tibet, “informed consent” is a myth. When Tibetans peacefully resist Chinese mining operations and other mega-development projects like hydropower dams, they are imprisoned, and in some cases, killed.

There is no independent environmental monitoring, no community consent, and no transparency.

Canada’s decision to rubber-stamp BYD’s entry is an endorsement of a green future built on environmental destruction and colonial occupation.

If this isn’t what clean energy looks like to you, speak up. Share this video.

05/12/2026

Tomorrow, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will meet in Beijing.

Tibetans will not be in the room. But decisions with real consequences for Tibet will be.

Among many issues, China’s critical minerals dominance — a key part of this negotiation — is built on occupied Tibetan land.

Our land, our people, our futures are not yours to trade. Share this video.

05/10/2026

This Mother’s Day, members of our grassroots network reflected on what their amalas have taught them — how to make khapse, prayers, compassion, and more. Amalas are the living transmission of culture, identity, values, and memory.

Right now, 80% of Tibetan children in Tibet are being forcibly separated from their amalas and their homes, enrolled in colonial boarding schools designed to replace Tibetan language, religion, and culture with state ideology. This is not “education development” as the CCP claims. This is a deliberate tactic to sever Tibetan roots. This is cultural genocide.

Today, we honor every amala in Tibet whose child has been taken away from her.

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05/03/2026

Tibet has long been one of the world’s worst media blackholes. Now, China is doubling down.

Independent shortwave radio services like RFA and VOA have long served as a lifeline for Tibetans inside Tibet, providing rare access to free and independent information outside of state control. And while they were suspended, Beijing didn’t waste a second in rushing to fill the void with state propaganda.

On World Press Freedom Day, we stand with the courageous Tibetans in Tibet risking everything to make their plight heard. Share this video to commit to amplifying their voices and supporting independent Tibetan media.

Tibet’s story must not be told only by the regime erasing it.

Last week, SFT Europe chapter leaders gathered in Belgium for a powerful weekend of strategizing and collective planning...
04/28/2026

Last week, SFT Europe chapter leaders gathered in Belgium for a powerful weekend of strategizing and collective planning for Tibet.

SFT’s grassroots network across Europe has flourished in recent years, with several new chapters forming and existing ones leading hard-hitting campaigns in their communities.

This session was a chance to bring that momentum, and some of the brilliant young minds behind SFT Europe (and ), into the same room. Together, they envisioned how to build a more united and impactful movement for Tibet in the region.

A big thank you to Dharma City and Patrul Rinpoche for graciously hosting us.

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