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Olympic Protest Flares - Action

Urban climbers, city mountaineers - your time has come!

I though this may combine some interests of our friends.

There is a “final ignition” planned for the 8th August to coincide with the lighting of the Olympic torch to begin the Olympics in China. Basically lighting red flares from peaks, landmark and monuments to protest China’s poor human rights record and its occupation of Tibet.

“We shall make these monuments talk the language of smoke, “the evanescent color of blood”, on the day on which the olympic torch, a double-headed symbol of peace and hypocrisy, will light the Peking Olympics. At exactly sixty years from the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the repression of Tibet during an event of world-wide interest has become the symbol of failure and betrayal on behalf of international governments: the principles then ratified have been and are still, more or less diplomatically, denied.

My friends and I in unison with other French activists, will move near, on sight, on top of, beneath, besides… the Eiffel Tower, in the heart of the city where UNESCO has it’s general headquarters, in a city that more than any other one has consigned culture and intelligence to the fundamental freedoms of man. Other cities throughout the world, mountains, hills, scenic areas, natural or urban sites are there, available, in their unchangeable locations, waiting. For You.”

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