DVD to U.S. Senators

We would like to thank everyone who looks in on this video.

This clip has been sent on DVD to each U.S. Senator in honor of the Oct. 17 presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama.

We hope you will share this link with friends.

Please visit The Tibetan Photo Project Website at link

Visually and respectfully, Joe Mickey and Sazzy Varga

Green Light

Most certainly a green light. You might consider offering the credits outside the video to shave down your running time. Thanks for uploading this.

Nottothewall and fryflux,
Thanks for the Greenlight. Greatly appreciated.

Flyflux, thanks for the comment. We would certainly agree that cutting the credits would help the viewing time.

This particular sequence is the end of a feature length documentary on The Tibetan Photo Project and has been serving several purposes for the project including mailing 100 DVD copies to the U.S. Senate.

We work on a begging bowl sized budget, and given that this was filmed throughout the Tibetan exile communities in India; for our size and scale, this was a significant undertaking. Making the film allowed us to be directed and work in-person with Tibetans that up until this film, we had only known through email and snailmail since 2000.

In the end, however this film serves the Tibetans, it is important that we are sure to say thankyou in whatever small way we can... and credits were the best we had to offer.

Thanks for taking the time.

Visually and Respectfully, Joe Mickey and Sazzy Varga.
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Jade azul16, thank you for the greenlight

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To Everyone,

Working from The Tibetan Photo Project, we have created a clip that we just posted. (As we post this, it says it has been up for 6 hours).

This clip has been sent on an individual DVD to each of the 100 U.S. Senators.

The clip is the visual version of an op-ed that we have had in several U.S. publications over the last few years.

Since we could only afford the 100 DVDs for the senate, We have been urging people to share its links with friends and with world leaders.

If you have two minutes, give a look at this clip and pass the link to at least 2 people.
www.current.tv/watch/188411112

We are working on a "pay it forward" sort of theory. Feel free to simply cut and paste this intro and we hope you will do this by Oct. 17, but anytime you come across this is fine and thank you.

Visually and Respectfully, Joe Mickey and Sazzy Varga
The Tibetan Photo Project
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cool piece! GL!

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Yes, Greenlight.

Twodee, Film Clash and Director Dave, thanks for the greenlight. Director Dave, you cam sounds interesting and we will have a look when we are not on dial up..

We are grateful to everyone who takes the time.

Please pass the link to a friend and as we mentioned:

Since we could only afford the 100 DVDs for the senate, We have been urging people to share its links with friends and with world leaders.

If you have two minutes, give a look at this clip and pass the link to at least 2 people.
www.current.tv/watch/188411112

Thanks all..

How about fading down the piano and letting some ambient noises through? Could you pause your narration for the hunger striking monks? Or how about narrate that part too, instead of using the subtitles. Both at the same time is a little awkward.

Beautiful people, thank you.

Cool new pod! Cheers on the GL, I'm sure you'll get plenty more.
If you have a chance check out my pod about Transfrancisco link

Thanks for the latest comments.

We are going to use this reply space for the latest report we have had sent to us from Burma. We have not independently confirmed any of this and are not familiar with the source publication listed in this information.

We have cut the article to fit the 4000 limit... pick it up at the link.

BURMA/MYANMAR : Thousands dead in the massacre of the monks
Body: Burma: Thousands dead in the massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: 'Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand.'

Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.

Reports from other exiles along the frontier confirmed that hundreds of monks had simply ' disappeared' as 20,000 troops swarmed around Rangoon yesterday to prevent further demonstrations by religious groups and civilians.

Word reaching dissidents hiding out on the border suggested that as well as executions, some 2,000 ...monks are being held in the notorious Insein Prison or in university rooms which have been turned into cells.

There were reports that many were savagely beaten at a sports ground on the outskirts of Rangoon, where they were heard crying for help.

Others who had failed to escape disguised as civilians were locked in their bloodstained temples.

There, troops abandoned religious beliefs, propped their rifles against statues of Buddha and began cooking meals on stoves set up in shrines.

In stark contrast, the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay - centres of the attempted saffron revolution last week - were virtually deserted yesterday.

A Swedish diplomat who visited Burma during the protests said last night that in her opinion the revolution has failed.

Liselotte Agerlid, who is now in Thailand, said that the Burmese people now face possibly decades of repression. 'The Burma revolt is over,' she added.

'The military regime won and a new generation has been violently repressed and violently denied democracy. The people in the street were young people, monks and civilians who were not participating during the 1988 revolt.

'Now the military has cracked down the revolt, and the result may very well be that the regime will enjoy another 20 years of silence, ruling by fear.'

Mrs Agerlid said Rangoon is heavily guarded by soldiers.

'There are extremely high numbers of soldiers in Rangoon's streets,' she added. 'Anyone can see it is absolutely impossible for any demonstration to gather, or for anyone to do anything.

'People are scared and the general assessment is that the fight is over. We were informed from one of the largest embassies in Burma that 40 monks in the Insein prison were beaten to death today and subsequently burned.'

The diplomat also said that three monasteries were raided yesterday afternoon and are now totally ...(use links below)

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The Dalai Lama will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Oct. 17. Please pass the link to this video to everyone in your address book and to world leaders. We sent 100 DVDs - one to each U.S. Senator... Please choose to help... Thank you... Visually and respectfully, Joe Mickey and Sazzy Varga