Dear Tibet Supporters,

Yesterday, we began our 3-month "March for Tibet's Independence." On behalf of Taktser Rinpoche, the International Tibet Independence Movement, & myself, I want to deeply thank each of you for helping us reach this day.

We will continue to remain online during the walk, so we hope to hear from you at Rangzen@aol.com. Our plan is to regularly communicate our progress through e-mail & web postings. We are very excited to announce the launching of a new website located at http://www.rangzen.com This site is being sponsored by ITIM. A page for the walk is also located on this site. Since we have a digitized camera on the walk, each week, we will be posting two updates of images & text related to the walk. If you cannot join us on the walk in person, we invite you to join us through the web.

We ask that each of you be mindful (e.g., burn incense, light a candle) of the walk while it is taking place, & share our web address with others, so they can visit the walk as it develops.

If you would like to reach the walkers on the route, you can do so by paging them. Please understand that we will not always be able to call you back immediately as phone service will be limited. While the walkers are in Canada (from March 8 to March 26), our pager number is: 1-888-836-5930. When the walkers reach the United States on March 27th, our pager number will be:

1-888-997-1035.

May all of our efforts to free Tibet & eliminate the suffering of Tibetans in Tibet meet with great success on this auspicious day.

Tashi Delek,

Larry Gerstein, Director, Int'l Tibet Independence Movement

Long Live His Holiness Gendhun Choekyi Nyima

Long Live His Holiness The Dalai Lama