"The Beijing Games present us the opportunity to think about the international crises we face as part of a holistic system, to consider the bodies of our athletes as the bodies of the people of Darfur, to consider the Olympic flame as the flames that torch Tibet, to consider the voices of activists and politicians together with the voices of people on the ground and athletes on the fields. Wherever you come down on the question of the boycott, this is an opportunity for all of us to consider how, and to whom, we ask the question." -- India Currents, Commentary, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Posted: Apr 07, 2008
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i've been totally wondering the same thing since lately ive been feeling all boycotty- but how do we or do we not boycott? like what do we do?
The communicator in me says to let it go on...to use it as an opportunity to have a conversation...to let the vision of "one world, one dream" work in this world. And part of me says that China isn't likely to bend to the idealistic - possibly even naive - hopes that the gathering of nations in friendly competition is so miraculous as to have the power to effect even further miracles in its wake.
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