Thanks for the link. So interesting. I'm glad they were able to
avoid detention.

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <rupert@...> wrote:
>
> http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/08/25/boing-boing-tv-proti.html
>
> "Last week, eight American citizens were detained in Beijing for
> participating in pro-Tibetan sovereignty protests near the site of
> the 2008 Olympics, with Students for a Free Tibet. Two videobloggers
> who documented those protest and guerrilla art installations evaded
> detention, and spoke to Boing Boing TV on Friday Beijing time about
> why they were there, what they witnessed, and why it mattered.
>
> "Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson of Ryanishungry.com spoke to us over
> Skype from a hostel in Beijing. One of the actions they documented in
> photo and video was the hanging of an "LED throwies" light banner,
> below, which read "FREE TIBET." We agreed to hold this Boing Boing tv
> episode until after we received word that they'd safely left the
> country. They have returned home, so I am posting the piece today."
>
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>