CBS news cover the 'Torch of Truth' party in San Francisco to raise money for GIVEBACK's "March to Tibet" Campaign

CBS news cover Giveback & Cyphertown's music/activist party on Sunday 6th April. The event was in support of the Tibetan marchers traveling on foot from India to Tibet to raise international awareness of China's human rights record, specifically in Tibet, in the run up to the Beijing Olympics this year. It was a huge success and the music download that Giveback has associated with this campaign to take the issue out to the wider music community ( from dance music artists FreQ Nasty and Bassnectar ) can be downloaded on the homepage here, or at www.giveback.net/freqnectar. All the profits from the gig went toward feeding, clothing and paying legal bills for the marchers over he coming months of their campaign.

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