Pro-Tibet 'flash mob' protest planned in NYC

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — Some 200 pro-Tibet demonstrators geared up for a "flash mob" protest on Friday in New York City's Grand Central Station, a statement by the organizers said.

The demonstrators plan to converge on the station's immense center hall between 5:45 and 6:00 pm (2145 and 2200 GMT), brandishing flags and raising their fists to protest China's "illegal occupation of Tibet," Students for a Free Tibet said.

"As the Olympic Games continue in Beijing during the month of August, thousands of activists around the world are expressing their solidarity with the Tibetan people with a series of coordinated rallies and protests taking place around the world inside and outside of China," the group said.

New York's Grand Central Station is one of the largest...

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