Last night was the second and final night in which the Empire State Building was lit in red and yellow to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. But, “looked at another way,” as the NY Times suggests, “it honored the 60th anniversary of Communist rule, which in the past caused millions of deaths and whose standard-bearers are serial human rights offenders.”
Photos and very cool video after the jump.
Here’s one shot of the Empire State, from Students for a Free Tibet’s flickr page. Notice the “Free Tibet” message projected on the building in the foreground. Smartly done, SFTHQ!
Here’s a nice little video in which you can get a sense of he breadth of the projected messaging campaign:
And yes, folks did protest in the streets, too. (Shot via flickr user esoto83.)
Both Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China have offices in the Empire State, and so were a big part of the protests.
For more on this, see the Times article, or visit Students for a Free Tibet’s blog.
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I just updated my Flikr page to include two more photos and a video of Tenzan Dorjee, deputy director of the Students for a Free Tibet, talking about the event. Click here to see more
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pumpkinerica/sets/72...
Ah, so you're esoto83! Thanks much!
That's me! I'm trying to figure out how to put a picture icon so i'm not just a shadow….
If you're logged into to Intense Debate, you can just go here: http://intensedebate.com/edit-user-picture
If you're logged into to Intense Debate, you can just go here: http://intensedebate.com/edit-user-picture
Perfect, thanks! It should show up now. I'll be writing a blog post about the lighting with all the media on Flikr and a mini article about it, so stay tuned!
Pretty cool…makes me think that flashing logos and tag lines on buildings for equal rights for gays and lesbians could be a cool thing to do as well. I feel for our Yankee brothers and sisters who are denied equal rights under the law by their government.
Hi there,
Here is my blog post about the event. Feel free to comment!
http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/interactive2010/...