FlickR Album: Tibet 2008-08-23
These were pictures I took in downtown Calgary of a protest for Tibetan freedom against the Chinese government. Protesters started at Olympic Plaza and marched to the Chinese consulate.
Tibetan Freedom Fist Jab
Wearing buttons for Tibet
Denise rides off with cops
Protester Denise Ogonoski can be seen in the back seat, being taken away by police. She was taken in because she had climbed up a light pole to put up a Tibetan flag outside the Chinese consulate. One thing that concerned me after this happened, was I overheard another protester asking where Denise was taken, and the police officer didn't seem to know or care to find out.
Defiant protester escorted by police
Running up the flag
Games over, Free Tibet
Megaphone for Tibet
That’s a lot of people
Groom also supports freedom
Stroll for freedom
Generations for Tibet
We walk we march
Falun Dafa victims
Denise Ogonoski speaks for Tibet
Denise Ogonoski speaks at Olympic Plaza
Denise Ogonoski spoke at the rally at Olympic Plaza, as one of the members of Students for a Free Tibet that were deported from China during the Beijing Olympics. Later on, she tried waving a Tibetan flag from a light pole outside the Chinese consulate, which got her a ride in a Calgary Police Service car.