You mobile phone is constantly registering your location on every cell tower it connects to. Take out your battery or leave your mobile phone at home if you don’t want to be tracked.

你的手机会一直在每一个它连接到的手机发射塔注册你的方位。如果你不希望你的行踪被追踪到，你应该取下电池或者把手机留在家里。

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Learn More About Mobile Security བོད་ཡིག | English |中文

Download Flyers བོད་ཡིག | English|中文

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Changing your SIM card is not enough to stop being identified – every phone has a unique number! Change your mobile phone and your SIM card if you need to be safe.

仅凭更换SIM卡不足以停止被识别—每个手机有一个独一无二的号码！如果你想要安全应该同时更换手机和SIM卡。

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Learn More About Mobile Security བོད་ཡིག | English |中文

View and Download Flyers བོད་ཡིག | English |中文

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Learn More About Attachments & Safer File Sharing English | བོད་ཡིག

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Safe Travels Online is a new campaign and video series made by Tibetans, for Tibetans, to highlight easy and critical ways to stay safer in the online world.

Learn More About HTTPS English | བོད་ཡིག

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On June 23rd, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict presented its first James Lawson Award for Nonviolent Achievement—or, rather, awards. The ceremony took place over lunch in a multi-purpose room at Tufts University, midway through ICNC’s annual, week-long Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict. All four Lawson Award winners are taking part in FSI this year, and all four are women: Mary King, Ghada Shahbender, Lhadon Tethong, and Nada Alwadi.

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ཞི་བའི་གདོང་ལེན་པ་བཞི་ལ་རྗེམ་སུ་ ལོ་སོན་གཟེངས་རྟགས་(James Lawson Award)ཐོབ་པ།

ནེ་ཐན་ སི་ཁ་ནིས་རྡར་( Nathan Schneider)གྱིས་བྲིས།

རིག་འབྱུང་དོན་གྲུབ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཀྱིས་བསྒྱུར་།

ཁ་སང་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འཚེ་མེད་ཞི་བའི་རྩོད་རྙོག་ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་(International Center on Nonviolent Conflict)གིས་། ཐེངས་དང་པོའི་རྗེམ་སུ་ལོ་སོན་གཟེངས་རྟགས་དེ་འཚེ་མེད་ཞི་བའི་ཡར་རྒྱས་ཆེད་གནང་འདུག  མཛད་སྒོ་དེ་ནི་། (FSI) ཟེར་བའི་བདུན་གཅིག་རིང་གི་འཚེ་མེད་ཞི་བའི་རྩོད་རྙོག་ཐད་ཀྱི་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་དང་བསྟུན་ནས། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འཚེ་མེད་ཞི་བའི་རྩོད་རྙོག་ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་གི་ལོ་འཁོར་མཇུག་སྡོམ་བརྒྱུད་། (Tufts)གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་ཁང་གི་ལས་འགུལ་སྣ་མང་སྤེལ་སའི་ཚོགས་ཁང་ཞིག་ཏུ་ཉིན་གུང་གསོལ་ཚིགས་སྐབས་སུ་འཚོགས་གནང་འདུག རྗེམ་སུ་ལོ་སོན་གཟེངས་རྟགས་འཐོབ་མཁན་བུད་མེད་བཞི་བྱུང་འདུག་ཅིང་། ཁོང་ཚོ་ཚང་མ་བདུན་གཅིག་རིང་གི་བགྲོ་གླེང་དང་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་དེར་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་འདུག  གཟེངས་རྟགས་བཞེས་མཁན་བུད་མེད་བཞི་ནི། མེ་རེས་ ཁིན་( Mary King)དང་རྒ་རྡ་ ཞ་རྦེན་སྒྲར།(Ghada Shahbender) བཀྲས་མཐོང་ལྷག་སྒྲོན། ན་རྡ་ ཨལ་བ་རྡེས་(Nada Alwadi) བཅས་རེད་།

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The Tibet Action Institute is excited to be supporting what may well be the first global online video press conference powered by the new Google+ Hangout group video chat feature. Hangout allows up to 10 participants to see and hear each other online, as well as share and simultaneously watch YouTube videos. Our movement is spread around the globe, and hangout offers unprecedented capabilities for the voices from our diaspora to join together online.

The press conference “hangout”, coordinated by the International Tibet Network (more information below), will include a number of prominent Tibetan activists in India, the UK and the United States. In addition a handful of selected reporters and other participants will also join the hangout, and be able to directly participate in the press conference. For those who cannot make it into the limited hangout, the entire discussion will be rebroadcast live on the Tibet Global UStream Channel and questions will be taken via chat and Twitter.

Please see the information and links below if you would like to participate.

We’ve noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target…All these attacks abuse a publicly-disclosed MHTML vulnerability for which an exploit was publicly posted in January 2011. Users browsing with the Internet Explorer browser are affected.
(Read more here).

Yet another reason to stop using Internet Explorer! Learn about alternatives in Tibet Action’s Micro Lesson on Better Browsing in English or Tibetan — and make the switch now.

Join the Global Text Action for Norzin Wangmo
Date: March 8 – 12, 2011
Text (SMS) your message for Norzin Wangmo’s release to:
+ 86 28 8660 4437
Who: Liu Xibao, Party Secretary of China’s Sichuan Province where Norzin Wangmo is imprisoned

Use your cellphone and the Internet  – the very communications tools the Chinese government is trying to control – to advocate for her release.

Text (SMS) + 86 28 8660 4437 and send a message to Liu Qibao, Party Secretary of Sichuan Province, where Norzin is detained (please note: Sichuan is 13 hours ahead of EST).You can also text the Chinese Embassy nearest you.

Help Spread the Word: Join the Facebook global text action event.

Why text from March 8 – 12? Tuesday, March 8 is International Women’s Day and Saturday, March 12 marks the anniversary of the Tibetan Women’s Uprising –  the day in 1959 when Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, to demand the release of those detained on March 10.

What to text?

1) Release Norzin Wangmo NOW!
现在就释放龙真旺姆

2) Tibetans have a right to freedom of expression – Free Norzin Wangmo NOW
西藏人有言论的自由　现在就释放龙真旺姆

3) Truth and freedom for Tibetans – Free Norzin Wangmo NOW
西藏人要真理、要自由 现在就释放龙真旺姆

Please Note: If you’re using a smart phone or Internet service to SMS, the Chinese text can simply be cut and paste into the SMS system. If using a standard mobile phone we suggest using the English text.

More campaign materials:

Take Action: Send an online letter to Liu Xibao

Read a moving poem, “Sorry”, dedicated to Norzin Wangmo, by a Tibetan blogger (translated by High Peaks Pure Earth).

As people power explodes across the Arab world ­– first in Tunisia, then in Egypt, now in Bahrain, Libya and elsewhere — one can’t help but wonder if we may be witnessing the fourth wave of democratization. If so, can 1.5 billion people living under the Chinese Communist Party ride this wave to democracy and freedom?

Before the dust has settled on the Arab spring, analysts are citing poverty, unemployment and corruption as the three main causes of the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Arguing that these socioeconomic conditions and statistics are missing in today’s China, some are quick to dismiss any possibility of Beijing’s rule being shaken by the Tunisia effect. But let us remember an enduring lesson from history. Statistics don’t make revolutions; people do.

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People rise up not just because they are poor or unemployed; people rise up when they believe change is possible. After the success of the Tunisian revolution, millions of Egyptians suddenly found new hope and poured into the streets to demand change. In fact, in both Tunisia and Egypt, the revolution was not led by the poor and unemployed; it was organized and largely executed by the educated, online, middle class youth who wanted a say in the way their country was run. If revolutions are created by poverty and unemployment, why are we seeing an uprising in Bahrain, an international banking center with an educated, middle class majority? If Chinese youth are financially better off today than a decade ago, it makes them more — not less — likely to demand freedom and democracy.

However, while hope can mobilize people, it cannot guarantee success, which depends on strategy and tools. The mass convergences in Tunis and Cairo that filled our TV screens for weeks were preceded by months and years of behind-the-scenes strategic planning, training and organizing by groups of activists and youth leaders, who wielded the power of the internet in their nonviolent struggle.

The internet has decentralized power and exponentially strengthened the grassroots. Wael Ghonim, one of the heroes of the Egyptian uprising, said it best, “If you want to liberate a society, just give them the internet.” According to Mr. Ghonim, who aptly called their uprising “Revolution 2.0,” the Egyptian revolution began online.

Is China ready for a revolution 2.0?

Read the full article here.