Authoritarian regimes can seem too difficult to topple. But that’s because we often think of power as coming from the top down. What if we see that power comes from the bottom up, and that people can win their rights even up against the most brutal political system?
The Confucius Institute, located on Packard Avenue, photographed on Mar. 27, 2018. Christine Lee / The Tufts Daily Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) urged Tufts to disassociate with the Confucius Institute, an educational collaboration between the university and Beijing Normal University (BNU), in a letter sent to 40 institutions in Greater Boston earlier this month. Confucius Institutes are overseen by the Office of Chinese Language Council International, known as...
Tibetan students at UMass Amherst, professors and US and state representatives are advocating for an end to the contract with the Confucius Institute
The Kendall Square Cinema in downtown Boston was packed with audiences who came to watch film In the Name of Confucius on March 1, 2018. In the city of Boston, US, weekends start from Thursday nights. We experienced that first hand on March 1 at the premiere of our film In the Name of...
By tla_en_admin | January 19, 2018 0 Comment Tibet Action Institute based in Dharamsala with its vision of enhancing the digital strength and its effectiveness amongst the Tibetans and its Organizations in exile with their primary goal of securing and strengthening democracy,enabling the basic human right and Freedom, are implementing their objectives by providing workshop and digital awareness...
The University of Massachusetts Boston has been urged in a letter from students, professors and alumni, along with outside advocates to shut down the China’s Confucius Institute that operates on its campus. The center is openly known to be overseen by the Chinese government and it is accused of promoting censorship abroad and undermining...
University of Massachusetts Boston students, alumni, and professors protested earlier this month, accusing the university’s Confucius Institute of “undermining human rights” initiatives, according to the Boston Globe. The Confucius Institute is a worldwide non-profit public education organization based in Beijing, China. Its parent organization is the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China...
