| SPRING 2010 | Vist the ICT Blog at weblog.savetibet.org |
| Light of Truth Awards  On behalf of the International Campaign for Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama presented the Light of Truth Award to two recipients at a moving ceremony at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, DC on October 7, 2009.The late Julia Taft was appointed Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues in 1999 and served on the board of ICT from 2002. She passed away in 2008, and her award was received by her husband, William H. Taft, IV. Wang Lixiong is the Chinese writer who co-authored and disseminated a petition calling on the Chinese authorities to exercise restraint and caution in their response to the wave of protests that swept Tibet in March 2008. He received the award on behalf of all of the signatories to the petition "Twelve Suggestions for Handling the Tibetan Situation." Obama's Nobel Speech through a Tibet Lens Barack Obama has now officially joined the very elite club of Nobel Peace Prize winners, almost as exclusive as the club he joined last year: United States Presidents. Many were watching to see how Obama would deal with two touchy issues: the fact that he was awarded the Prize with scant accomplishments to date, and the seeming incongruity of his receiving a peace award days after announcing he would send 30,000 more soldiers into a battle zone. From the Leadership We have been quick off the mark in the New Year, with high expectations for a challenging 2010 agenda as we prepared for His Holiness' meeting with President Obama this February. In recent months, President Obama's emissaries went to Dharamsala; His Holiness the Dalai Lama presented the Light of Truth Awards; the 5th World Parliamentarians Convention on Tibet was held in Rome; and the UN Climate Change Conference took place in Copenhagen. Share with a friend: Please share this issue of the TPW Online with friends - thank you! |
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