CANDLE FOR TIBET - PLEASE SHARE FAR AND WIDE

[Jeanne Svhiyeyi Aga Chadwick]

Press Release The World's Greatest Light Protest for Tibet grows even greater All out light for Tibet in the 24 hours preceding the Olympic Games. THE SAD SMOKY MOUNTAINS & skyscrapers join Candle for Tibet campaign. Will ignite red smoke on hundreds of mountain tops, and on several skyscrapers and landmarks in major cities. Candle for Tibet asks people to put the candle in their windows, desks, or anywhere else where other people will see it and hopefully do the same. Many will participate in candle vigils throughout the world. CFT is calling on All Light artists in the world to create light shows for freedom. CFT calls the people of the world to take part by lighting candles, flash lights, lighters, car headlights and any other light source. CFT calls for all those who plan to attend the opening ceremony in Beijing to light a candle, flash light, a lighter or even a cell phone during the ceremony. Tel Aviv, July 21 2008 Candle for Tibet, the world's biggest campaign for freedom in Tibet, was joined by Sad Smoky Mountains & Skyscrapers to create an even greater light protest for freedom in Tibet. The Light Protest for freedom. On Thursday August 7th at 9:00 p.m. Local time at least 100,000,000 people, from every corner of earth, will light candles in hundreds of planned candle-lit vigils, with their friends or at their homes. They will call for freedom in Tibet. (All details can be founds at CFT's press room) SSM&S will send on the day following CFT 's candle action hundreds of mountain climbers and volunteers to ignite red smoke flares on Skyscrapers roofs in NY, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and other major cities around the world, and on over 100 mountain tops in 3 continents. The smoke ignition will coincide with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. "We are now ready to instruct hundreds of red smoke flares in cities all over the world" says artist Alberto Peruffo, the project's creator. "We will flare up the skies red from buildings, monuments and palaces" SSM&S has already proven record. On May 11th hundreds of mountaineers climbed to the summits of over 100 mountains in Europe, Asia, North and South America, where they flared up the sky red calling for a free Tibet (Link to images at the bottom) "This is very exciting development" says David Califa, CFT's creator and organizer, "SSM&S values fit ours like a glove, our whole campaign is built on unity, solidarity and sharing. It's a fantastic artistic action for freedom. We are calling on every light artist in the world to join us. We are also calling on all freedom lovers in the world to drive with their cars' headlights on, in the 24 hours preceding the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on August 8th." CFT is endorsed and supported by the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN), the global coalition of Tibet-related non-governmental organizations, almost all other major International Tibet support group, and several local support groups. "We are calling on all human rights organizations to join this beautiful manifestation of solidarity for freedom. In the next few days we will also call on hundreds of performing artists, athletes and celebrities to light a candle for Tibet" says Califa "We don't expect that many will turn us down". --END-OF-TEXT-- Candle for Tibet main web site: http://www.candle4tibet.org CFT Social Network: http://candle4tibet.ning.com/ CFT Press Room: http://www.erichopr.com/releases/c4t.htm Contact: David Califa +972 544 730 090 Email: in...@candle4tibet.org Sad Smoky Mountains web site: http://www.sadsmokymountains.net/ SSM&S YouTube page: http://it.youtube.com/user/sadsmokymountains Images from the May 11th Ignition: http://www.antersass.it/sadsmokymountains/first_ignition_photos.htm Contact: Alberto Peruffo Email: alberto...@antersass.it Tel: +39 444 695140 Very partial list of targeted mountains for August 8 2008 (Urban locations will be revealed to the media before the Light Protest starts) All heights in meters MATTERHORN 4478 m (Alps, Switzerland) MONTE ROSA 4634 m (Alps, Italy) MONTE BIANCO 4810 m (Alps, France) DOLOMITI 3300 m (Alps, Italy) VOLCANO SAJAMA 6530 (Andes, Bolivia) ALPAMAYO 5947 m (Andes, Peru) HUASCARUN SUR 6768 m (Andes, Peru) CHOPICALQUI 6354 m (Andes, Peru) NORTH TABLE MOUNTAIN (Colorado, USA) STOK KANGRI 6137 (Himalaya, India)   "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.......Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade....where I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty." Chief Joseph, Nez Perce