There once was an annual event that brought together all Americans. The event was a two-hour made for TV spectacle in which women with transcendent physical beauty stalked a catwalk for two hours selling expensive lingerie.

In its own silly way, this event – the Victoria Secret Fashion show - was the crowning marriage of Western capitalism and fashion – driving almost $7.7 billion in annual sales at its peak in 2015.

In June of 1998, one hundred and twenty thousand young people came to RFK Stadium to watch the biggest bands in the world play songs and call out the Chinese Communist Party. The event was called Free Tibet and it was about bringing attention to the genocide there.

Today, you rarely hear about Tibet (the last Free Tibet rock concert was held in 2003).

The reason is not because Tibet became free. The genocide of the Tibetans continues unabated, perhaps accelerated even.