I too would like to see Tibet freed. How? Firstly, I would like to see China just leave them in peace. It's wrong to force them into poverty while crushing their culture and identity. The monstrous Chinese government has perverted it's own people, who the Buddhist Tibetans probably would have accepted as brothers and sisters and vice versa, when they started coming in in droves, if it wasn't for the fact that the Chinese criminal leadership was using it's own people to destabilize Tibet. As Naomi Klein notes, It's seen by capitalists as an easy way to get what you want. You take advantage of disaster. If there is no disaster, then you create one.

Gwynne Dyer's article in NOW magazine (http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=162244
explains that it's entirely possible that the current unrest in Tibet will not end well for Tibetans.

It's up to Tibetans what they want to risk, and when. And it's understandable that when you've been oppressed for so long, it makes you crazy. Dyer's warning of the potential for China to again use great violence to quell demonstrations is well intentioned and matter-of-fact. But I've noticed others make the same warning to Tibetans for wrong reasons. They want those who might be inspired by the example to understand that Tibet cannot be supported in light of the great risk - of China pulling an American 'crazy' and killing hundreds or thousands in order to pacify the region - and so we can mourn and speak out but we should do nothing more.

I truly don't want to see bloodshed and I hope that the Dalai Lama has success in meeting with the Chinese government and having it really listen to him. But I don't expect much humanity from the capitalist-minded Chinese government. If it listened to the Dalai Lama, then it wouldn't be able to do the kind of business it wants to do, which involves having totally free access to minerals and whatever. China's behavior elsewhere - Sudan, Burma, even Afghanistan - shows us what they are all about.

I am an assistant admin on my nephew's Facebook group titled Boycott Beijing Olympics: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11772107107 and I have no special knowledge or education.