Forwarded by: Thepo Tulku, California

In honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations, San Francisco witnessed a variety of functions to celebrate this important event. Various groups of protesters hit the UN on Aids, Tibet and Poverty. Several members of the Tibetan community in the Bay Area protesting China's long history of human rights abuses in Tibet, heckled members of a panel- which included Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y-who gathered in the War Memorial Veterans Building Sunday morning to discuss the future of the United Nations.

The UN at 50 events on Monday, June 26th included U.N Palaza dedication, with U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Charter ceremony with President Clinton joined by over 180 ambassadors of the international community.

While the Charter ceremony was in progress inside the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, many members of the Tibetan community and friends in the Bay Area demonstrated outside to implore the United Nations to grant observer status to Tibet in the United Nations, to invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama to address the U.N. General Assembly, to force China to put a stop to the continuing violation of human rights in Tibet, and to help the people of Tibet to regain independence to preserve our unique cultural heritage.

Monday, June 26, 1995 Oakland, California