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Six Tibetans — five men and a woman partly visible at the left edge — stand in front of a wall plastered with handbills reading "STOP BUYING GOODS FROM CHINA / AND HELP STOP THE KILLINGS IN TIBET / CHINA OUT OF TIBET." Concert posters for the band EMF at the Marquee club, dated "WED MAR 27 8PM," are pasted alongside.

Stop Buying Goods from China

New York City · Manhattan , United States

1991 · Color 35mm negative

From the collection The Diaspora in America

The “Stop Buying Goods from China” campaign was one of the earliest organized Tibetan-American advocacy efforts in New York, gathering volunteers and signatures through the early 1990s in front of Chinese consulate buildings, at community centers, and on the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan. The Tibetan community in New York at this time was small enough that most of the people doing this work knew each other by name; this photograph holds a moment from that period.

Date and identification of the people pictured pending confirmation with the photographer.

From the collection · The Diaspora in America

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