ESCAPED THOUGHTS

All t-shirts at the very cool threadless site will be $9 for 24 hours only (Starts Friday 11/27 12:01 am CT, ends 11/27 11:59 pm CT)

Get the holiday gift list out, fire up the Internet early in the mornin', pour some cocoa and go!

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Mourners -2, originally uploaded by Lisa GH.

Cloisters, New York

Tibetan Monk Praying

Thanks to everyone who supported the Tibetan Freedom Movement in this year's Facebook Causes Giving Challenge!

They came in 7th overall, won $10,500 in prize money, and raised $32,000!

As a truly grassroots organization, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) relies on the support of individuals like you to continue important work for Tibet.

All the money raised from this contest will go to:
* Deploying attention-grabbing actions that amplify the voices of Tibetans inside Tibet;
* Investing in the next generation of Tibetan leaders;
* Pressing political leaders around the world to take a stand for Tibet;
* Securing the release of Tibetan political prisoners who risked everything to speak out for freedom.

Your continued support means much to all who work toward a free and independent Tibet.

Please continue to take action for freedom and human rights in Tibet at http://studentsforafreetibet.org

Buddhist monks

Yankees

In case you're wondering about this because you live outside the United States (I know Vox readers span the globe) - it's baseball World Series time here and my team - the New York Yankees - is very close to being in it.

If you are outside the U.S. and not a fan, think of this as a good time to try out The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World.

“…human consciousness, as Noetic author Lynne McTaggart described it, was a substance outside the confines of the body. A highly ordered energy capable of changing the physical world. theintentionexperiment.com is aimed at discovering how human intention could affect the world.”

Maybe you could send some good intentions towards the Yankees?

Derek Jeter

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com

Today is Diwali or Dīpāvali - a significant festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and today, an official holiday in India.

Adherents of these religions celebrate Diwali as the Festival of Lights. They light diyas—cotton string wicks inserted in small clay pots filled with oil—to signify victory of good over the evil within an individual.

I am all for celebrating the victory of good over evil.

Diyas

I see they dropped the price on the Wii game console. Should I buy one? I there really any true fitness to using this thing?

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) entered SFT's Facebook Cause - Tibetan Freedom Movement – into this year's Causes Giving Challenge: http://causes.com/sft?m=566209a4

Thanks to your support, Tibetan Freedom Movement came 2nd overall in the last giving challenge – this year, we can come in 1st!

You can help turn $10 into $50K for Tibetan freedom in just 4 EASY STEPS:

1. Go to: http://causes.com/sft?m=566209a4 (you don't have to be on Facebook to donate) and select DONATE
2. You can select "Donate through Facebook" or "Donate without Facebook" (You don't need to have a Facebook account to donate)
3. Donate $10 to the Tibetan Freedom Movement
4. Pass these steps on to all your friends!

Buddhist monks

How the challenge works:

Each day between now and November 6, 2009 (30 days in total), Tibetan Freedom Movement can win $1000 a day if we get the greatest number of individual donations in the 24 hour period (the daily contest runs from 3pm ET to 3pm ET) .

The cause with the greatest number of donations at the end of the 30-day period wins $50,000. The minimum donation per individual is $10, You can only donate once per day to count as a unique donation in the overall count, but you can donate on multiple days.

For example: If you make a donation at 3:01pm on October 8th and then another donation at 3:01pm on October 9th, both donations will count towards the overall total.

Tibetan Freedom Movement is 40,000 members strong. If each of us, take 2 minutes to donate $10 to the "Tibetan Freedom Movement," there is no doubt that we will not only win the $1,000 one-day challenges, but also the grand prize of $50,000.

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Beatles, Stones and more in the Village, originally uploaded by Brooklyn Bridge Baby.

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