Demonstrations at China's Toronto Consulate Continue Unabated

It is really inspiring to wake up with a morning air that gently carries aloft the emotional cries of sovereignty, freedom, self-determination and peace.

As with yesterday (and the day before that, and frequently last week), hundreds of demonstrators have taken up position in front of Toronto's Chinese consulate a few blocks from my house. I'm not often taken with marches and chants, but this morning I felt compelled to walked over and pitch in for a little while. The spineless lack of global state outrage and condemnation of China is viciously inexcusable. I am deeply disappointed in Canada for its mute and tacit acceptance of what is nothing less than China's sadistic and opportunistic state massacre and obvious attempt to round-up dissenters prior to the Olympics. And indeed the message of the protest today was very clear: "Stop The Killing! Stop The Killing! Stop the Killing!"

The particularly inspiring video below brings the wider issue into focus. It shows a demonstrator from last Monday's gathering successfully scaling the entire building and raising the Tibetan flag over the consulate. Brilliant.



March 18th, 2008 / 7 Comments / Tags: free Tibet, state violence, demonstration