Helplessness is an understandable, yet simplistic and and fatalistic description of the situation. The Tibetan people, led by their spiritual and political leader in exile, H.H. The Dalai Lama, whoa are now an ethnic minority in their own land, are facing one of the largest, best funded, and best equipped military and political machines in the world. The power of suppression in full view, or partial view, of the world's citizens. We can now see the vast disparities of living in a free land and living in a land controlled by a Central Committee; how a roaring economy not accompanied by individual and group freedoms can turn toxic. I have spent months of my own life living and traveling amongst Tibetans in Nepal and India; I have spent years of my life studying their traditions with relation to the mind. It horrifies me to see the brutality that can be exerted in the name of political control and irrelevant political boundaries. Yeah, but like, what can I do??....here's two.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/98.php/?cl_tf_sign=1
http://support.savetibet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=How_To_Help_Lhasa_Protests
