http://www.boycott2008games.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:00:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sydney protesters urge Olympics Boycott ABC Australia China Rejects EU Call for Talks With Dalai Lama as Interference Bloomberg India should boycott Chinese goods The Economic Times POLL: Should the U.S. boycott or protest the Olympic Games in Beijing because of China’s human rights record? Napa Valley Register http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/27/ From the London Free Press:  China has been repressing Tibet for almost 60 years and the rest of the world has not really cared that much. That's what makes calls for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics this summer so bizarre. First, it won't do any good. Second, a boycott avoids the more significant ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/25/ There was a time, long, long ago, when athletes from around the ancient world would gather, without clothes and without making political pronouncements, to let it all hang out - their enthusiasm for the spirit of competition, that is - and get on with games in which victories would bring ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/24/ By Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis Scripps Howard News Service Bloodshed in Tibet is leading to new calls by human-rights activists and even some politicians to boycott the Olympics in China this summer. But those calls have not come from U.S. leaders. Although Chinese police have killed at least 99 people in Tibet ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/22/ If the government of China hopes the world will go for its line on Tibet and the nefarious Dalai Lama and his purported "clique" – Europe isn't buying it. The response to the Tibetan crisis in London, Paris, and Berlin, rather, is a call for "dialogue" between China and the exiled ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/17/ Religious oppression, centuries of human rights violations and pollution-choked air and waterways are hardly the hallmarks for the successful marketing of one’s nation. Yet all that and more have been laid bare — and analyzed, discussed and protested — as the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing approach. Winter or summer, the international ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/16/ Jonathan Pearlman Foreign Affairs Correspondent CHINA has rejected repeated requests from Australia to allow diplomats to visit Tibet, just two weeks before a visit to China by Kevin Rudd. Australian embassy officials in Beijing made a written request to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs last Thursday but were turned down after China ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/13/ By BARRY SCHWEID WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush is using the prestige of his office on behalf of Tibetan protesters, but his direct appeal to Chinese President Hu Jintao lacks a trump card. Through a White House spokeswoman last week, Bush made plain he would attend the Olympic Games in August in ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/11/ President George W Bush will be attending the Olympic Games in Beijing this August despite the Chinese crackdown on Tibet, US officials said. Bush believes that the Olympics "should be about the athletes and not necessarily about politics", but he will probably make it a priority to meet Chinese President Hu ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/9/ By TERENCE HUNT – 12 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush sharply confronted China's President Hu Jintao on Wednesday about Beijing's harsh crackdown in Tibet, joining an international chorus of alarm just months before the U.S. and the rest of the world parade to China for the Olympics. In a telephone ... http://www.boycott2008games.com/archives/8/