I've started this lens to provides links to news about the current events in Burma / Myanmar and ways you can act in solidarity.
Global Day of Action for Burma - Saturday 6th October
and other UK actions
International Day of Action for a Free Burma
Saturday 6TH OCTOBER 2007 -- Support the Monks in Burma @ 12 NOON in every major city across the world.
We are marching in solidarity with the monks and the people of Burma who risk their lives everyday for freedom and democracy.
www.uscampaignforburma.org/action/
*LONDON GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST*
Saturday 6th October
Global Day of Action for Burma - London March and Rally
Assemble at Tate Britain at *11.00am*, nearest tube Pimlico. March to *Trafalgar Square* for a spectacular rally at *12.45pm*
Please wear something red, ideally a red headband.
More details (also see message from Burma Campaign Uk below)
March for Burma - London
11:00 Assemble at Tate Britain, London SW1P 4RG
12:05 Monks will drop petals over Westminster Bridge to symbolise the lives at threat in Burma
12:20 The march will come to a stop outside Downing Street where campaigners will tie their red headbands onto Downing Street Gates
12:45 Rally at Trafalgar Square
If you're not in or near London then there are plenty of other things going on around the UK:
* Brighton*
Peaceful Dharma Yatras (silent walks) on Sunday 7th October and Sunday 14th October in support of the monks and nuns who are peacefully demonstrating in Burma.
The walk will leave the Palace Pier at 12 noon and end at the Peace Statue (Hove lawns) each day. Please assemble at the pier entrance between 11.30am - 12 noon.
Members of the Free Burma Coalition will attend the
walk. Spread the word!
Fantastic turn out on the 30th of 218 people and 8 dogs!
Check the Argus; Monday OCT 1st for article on the walk on the 30th.
*Edinburgh*
Thursday 4th October, 6pm, St John's Church Hall, Princes' Street to discuss the current situation and possible actions that can be taken here in Scotland.
Saturday 6th October in Edinburgh's Meadows
A Run for Relief in Burma event (see www.runforburma.org/articles/show/1) followed by a lunch which will be addressed by Zoya Phan, Burmese refugee who now works for Burma Campaign UK.
*Leeds*
A Protest is being organised for this Saturday check details
Saturday 6TH OCTOBER 2007 -- Support the Monks in Burma @ 12 NOON in every major city across the world.
We are marching in solidarity with the monks and the people of Burma who risk their lives everyday for freedom and democracy.
www.uscampaignforburma.org/action/
*LONDON GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST*
Saturday 6th October
Global Day of Action for Burma - London March and Rally
Assemble at Tate Britain at *11.00am*, nearest tube Pimlico. March to *Trafalgar Square* for a spectacular rally at *12.45pm*
Please wear something red, ideally a red headband.
More details (also see message from Burma Campaign Uk below)
March for Burma - London
11:00 Assemble at Tate Britain, London SW1P 4RG
12:05 Monks will drop petals over Westminster Bridge to symbolise the lives at threat in Burma
12:20 The march will come to a stop outside Downing Street where campaigners will tie their red headbands onto Downing Street Gates
12:45 Rally at Trafalgar Square
If you're not in or near London then there are plenty of other things going on around the UK:
* Brighton*
Peaceful Dharma Yatras (silent walks) on Sunday 7th October and Sunday 14th October in support of the monks and nuns who are peacefully demonstrating in Burma.
The walk will leave the Palace Pier at 12 noon and end at the Peace Statue (Hove lawns) each day. Please assemble at the pier entrance between 11.30am - 12 noon.
Members of the Free Burma Coalition will attend the
walk. Spread the word!
Fantastic turn out on the 30th of 218 people and 8 dogs!
Check the Argus; Monday OCT 1st for article on the walk on the 30th.
*Edinburgh*
Thursday 4th October, 6pm, St John's Church Hall, Princes' Street to discuss the current situation and possible actions that can be taken here in Scotland.
Saturday 6th October in Edinburgh's Meadows
A Run for Relief in Burma event (see www.runforburma.org/articles/show/1) followed by a lunch which will be addressed by Zoya Phan, Burmese refugee who now works for Burma Campaign UK.
*Leeds*
A Protest is being organised for this Saturday check details
Latest statement and actions from the Burma Campaign UK
The true scale of the horrific crackdown on peaceful protestors in Burma is not yet known. Thousands have been arrested, and hundreds killed. We have received reports of crematoriums working through the night on the outskirts of Rangoon.
The first priority for the Burma Campaign UK was to make sure that the world knew what was happening in Burma. The question now is, how will the world
respond?
10,000 people marched through the streets of London on Saturday, and 200 protests took place in 30 countries around the world. Visit www.burmacampaign.org.uk/demonstrations
and www.facebook.com/photosto see pictures.
And the pressure is working. We are pleased to be able to tell you that the British government is now using its considerable diplomatic resources to
push for international action on Burma. The government is backing many of the steps we have been campaigning on for so long, such as action by the
United Nations Security Council, targeted economic sanctions by the European Union, and the personal engagement of the Prime Minister and Foreign
Secretary. You can view our media release at:
/www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P296">www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P296
BUT WE ARE NOT THERE YET! The United Nations Security Council has still not agreed on a statement condemning the brutal crackdown, and the European Union has yet to agree on targeted economic sanctions. Now is a critical time, please spare a couple of minutes to take these urgent actions.
TAKE ACTION
The Burma Campaign UK and MTV have joined forces again to call for action by the United Nations Security Council. Visit www.mtvburmaaction.com to email the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
TAKE ACTION
Email European Union governments calling on them to agree targeted economic sanctions that will ensure European companies no longer help pay for the
guns and the bullets used against peaceful protesters in Burma. Visit:EU Sanctions
"There is a demonstration outside the Burmese Embassy in London every day from 12-1pm
Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
19 A CHARLES STREET
LONDON W1J 5DX
Nearest tube Green Park"
Solidarity demonstrations are being in organised in many other countries.
www.burmacampaign.org.uk/demonstrations.html
UK Burma Solidarity Actions - from Indymedia.
The first priority for the Burma Campaign UK was to make sure that the world knew what was happening in Burma. The question now is, how will the world
respond?
10,000 people marched through the streets of London on Saturday, and 200 protests took place in 30 countries around the world. Visit www.burmacampaign.org.uk/demonstrations
and www.facebook.com/photosto see pictures.
And the pressure is working. We are pleased to be able to tell you that the British government is now using its considerable diplomatic resources to
push for international action on Burma. The government is backing many of the steps we have been campaigning on for so long, such as action by the
United Nations Security Council, targeted economic sanctions by the European Union, and the personal engagement of the Prime Minister and Foreign
Secretary. You can view our media release at:
/www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P296">www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P296
BUT WE ARE NOT THERE YET! The United Nations Security Council has still not agreed on a statement condemning the brutal crackdown, and the European Union has yet to agree on targeted economic sanctions. Now is a critical time, please spare a couple of minutes to take these urgent actions.
TAKE ACTION
The Burma Campaign UK and MTV have joined forces again to call for action by the United Nations Security Council. Visit www.mtvburmaaction.com to email the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
TAKE ACTION
Email European Union governments calling on them to agree targeted economic sanctions that will ensure European companies no longer help pay for the
guns and the bullets used against peaceful protesters in Burma. Visit:EU Sanctions
"There is a demonstration outside the Burmese Embassy in London every day from 12-1pm
Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
19 A CHARLES STREET
LONDON W1J 5DX
Nearest tube Green Park"
Solidarity demonstrations are being in organised in many other countries.
www.burmacampaign.org.uk/demonstrations.html
UK Burma Solidarity Actions - from Indymedia.
Videos on Burma
Burmese Bloggers without Borders: Burma - Land of Fear by John Pilger
Documentary from 19961 point
YouTube - Burma's Secret War
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySuaJ2B20E
Jim Carrey -Call to Action on Burma and Aung San S more...0 points
I was beaten unconscious and tortured by military in Burma - Society - Friction.tv
Campaign video from Burma Campaign UK
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Still some hope as Burma's junta releases 80 detained monks
YANGON (Reuters) - Burma's junta released 80 monks rounded up last week in a crackdown on the biggest anti-government protests in nearly 20 years, one of those freed said on Wednesday.
The monk, in his mid-20s but too nervous to give any more details of his identity, said he and 79 brethren were returned to their Mingala Yama monastery in Yangon shortly after midnight.
The remaining 16 of 96 arrested during a raid on the monastery -- among hundreds arrested in similar raids on at least 15 Yangon monasteries -- were expected to be freed soon, he said.
The monk said they had been held at a former government technical institute in northern Yangon's Insein district, and been subjected to verbal -- but not physical -- abuse during interrogation. Detainees had received two meals a day, he said.
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Free Burma!
International Bloggers' Day for Burma on the 4th of October
"If you are a website owner or blogger you just have to post one entry on the 4th of October 2007 on your website/blog with the title/text Free Burma! and include one of the graphics from this page or from our Flickr group to sync our global voices. Please use the tag "free burma" if possible. For bloggers, our slogan is: "One blogpost for Burma", for website owners: "One text for Burma".
If you have no website or blog we need you even more: Please help us to spread the word while commenting on other blogs with our message/link, posting on forums, guestbooks and message boards, tell your neighbours, friends or kids and first of all: Sign our list of participants!"
Free Burma!
If you have no website or blog we need you even more: Please help us to spread the word while commenting on other blogs with our message/link, posting on forums, guestbooks and message boards, tell your neighbours, friends or kids and first of all: Sign our list of participants!"
Free Burma!
Thoughts on Burma
Please act now, any way you can, to prove him wrong
reposting from Urban75
Originally Posted by fela fan
In the sound byte culture of western news reporting and news consumption, burma is no longer news. They've had enough of that, nothing new happening. On to more short-time s**t.
And that is that. There may be more protests, but they're winding down because the outside intervention that was essential never ever remotely looked like materialising. The UN are putting on a show for skin-deep veneer's sake, pretending to action, but that gambari will fly out within a day or two with no gains at all. Brown and Bush will return to their iran agenda. China will hold the Olympics, no problems. India and Thailand will continue to do business with the rogues in Burma. ASEAN will continue to not interfere with each other.
The Burmese people's aspirations have yet again been beaten by the hardware, by the iron batons and by the bullets.
They'll go back to an even worse police state than before, begging the belief that that is possible, but oh yes it is. Freedom? What the f**k is that?
And the world will go back to its own preoccupations. The Thais and Chinese to their efforts at making headway in their lives, getting the food into the family's tables.
The western people will return to their soaps and shopping.
Sorry, did something just happen?? Did i blink, or was there an attempted uprising?? Nah, sorry, can't see nothing. It must have been a dream.
Ta ra.
We are an evolving organism. We are constantly changing for the better. It might be three steps back, four forward, but whatever and however slow, we continue to evolve.
As a species we can only go forward. But right now it seem so fucking slow.
The current plight of the Burmese, allied with the internet, gave us a chance to really push the leaders of this world. Gave us a chance to help our Burmese brethren attain freedom while at the same time show the leaders that we are a force.
But, no. We botched it.
Posters on this thread knew, but the wider world botched it.
Go on, smash those iron bars against the skulls of monks and ordinary people. Pump the bullets into their flesh and blood. Kill em off.
We don't care, we're just worried about our own lives. Sorry burmese, fight your own fight, we saw this time, we knew this time, unlike in 1988, but as you can see mates, we just don't give a toss.
Ta ra."
Originally Posted by fela fan
In the sound byte culture of western news reporting and news consumption, burma is no longer news. They've had enough of that, nothing new happening. On to more short-time s**t.
And that is that. There may be more protests, but they're winding down because the outside intervention that was essential never ever remotely looked like materialising. The UN are putting on a show for skin-deep veneer's sake, pretending to action, but that gambari will fly out within a day or two with no gains at all. Brown and Bush will return to their iran agenda. China will hold the Olympics, no problems. India and Thailand will continue to do business with the rogues in Burma. ASEAN will continue to not interfere with each other.
The Burmese people's aspirations have yet again been beaten by the hardware, by the iron batons and by the bullets.
They'll go back to an even worse police state than before, begging the belief that that is possible, but oh yes it is. Freedom? What the f**k is that?
And the world will go back to its own preoccupations. The Thais and Chinese to their efforts at making headway in their lives, getting the food into the family's tables.
The western people will return to their soaps and shopping.
Sorry, did something just happen?? Did i blink, or was there an attempted uprising?? Nah, sorry, can't see nothing. It must have been a dream.
Ta ra.
We are an evolving organism. We are constantly changing for the better. It might be three steps back, four forward, but whatever and however slow, we continue to evolve.
As a species we can only go forward. But right now it seem so fucking slow.
The current plight of the Burmese, allied with the internet, gave us a chance to really push the leaders of this world. Gave us a chance to help our Burmese brethren attain freedom while at the same time show the leaders that we are a force.
But, no. We botched it.
Posters on this thread knew, but the wider world botched it.
Go on, smash those iron bars against the skulls of monks and ordinary people. Pump the bullets into their flesh and blood. Kill em off.
We don't care, we're just worried about our own lives. Sorry burmese, fight your own fight, we saw this time, we knew this time, unlike in 1988, but as you can see mates, we just don't give a toss.
Ta ra."
Blog Posts from Google
News on/from Burma
Links to websites with updated news reports on/from the protests and violence in Burma.
- Burma: internally displaced in rural areas demonstrate
- Report on solidarity demonstration by the displaced peoples of other parts of Burma
- Guardian News blog - Burma protests Friday
- Round up of coverage for today from The Guardian newspaper's news blog.
- The Guardian news blog
- Includes detailed coverage of events as reported by different sources for each day of the protests.
- The Guardian special reports
- Index page to The Guardian's news coverage of Burma and the current protests
- Burma news desk special
- Latest developments from The First Post
- myanmar internet blocked
- How people are managing to get news out of Burma despite an internet crackdown - including links to urgent messages from Burmese people.
- Burma News
- Important news from Burma
Latest news (as of 27-09-07)
Military sources in Rangoon are claiming that the regime's number two, General Maung Aye, has staged a coup against Than Shwe. - Mizzima News
- Specialising in Burma-Related News and Multimedia
- in English and Burmese - Zin Media
- blog covering events in English and Burmese
(WARNING: contains disturbing photographs) - BBC reports Burma uprising
- Dedicated section on the BBC website with recent coverage, background information and history.
Also includes video & audio reports plus coverage from the Burmese World Survice - Burma news reports portal
- portal site linking to media coverage of Burma related news. Constantly updated.
- Irrawaddy media
- Online newspaper covering Burma and South East Asia
- Burma is free - it has to be
- news roundup on indymedia
- Burma myanmar genocide blog
- "UP-TO-MINUTE BURMA SITUATION REPORTS: Here, we present you most updated news about current ongoing genocide in Burma/Myanmar. Translated into English for international viewers from many Burmese/Myanmar blogs and informers from within the country. Our hero reporters are risking their lives to get and to submit this information. For updated pictures, please see original sources listed in the right column."
- Photos of the genocide
- Adults only - if this doesn't anger & distress you you have no heart.
- Burmese Bloggers without Borders
- "When certain significant events unfold unexpectedly, we can no longer sing only melodious tunes. Instead, we find ourselves gathering whatever strength we can find, to survive in the turbulence of historical flame. Regardless of where we may be, we are bounded by our love for Burma. Freedom is our sky. Justice is our life. Peace is our nature. We create this blog to share our genuine feelings about Burma and its path to freedom.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;
this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
-Article 19
Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
Burma is important
Activism
How you can suport the demonstraters and people of Burma
- Youth Solidarity of Burma
- fundraising group to get money & suport to the protestors
- Crackdown
- Ways you can show your support and put pressure on the & UK government.
- The Dirty list
- companies that support the regime - so you can either boycott &/or contact them and put pressure on them to stop supporting the regime.
- Total Oil
- Put presure on Total Oil to pull out of Burma
- Stand with the protesters
- "To Chinese President Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council:
We stand alongside the citizens of Burma in their peaceful protests. We urge you to oppose a violent crackdown on the demonstrators, and to support genuine reconciliation and democracy in Burma. We pledge to hold you accountable for any further bloodshed."
sign the petition - Tourism Boycott
- Boycott travel and Lonely Planet guides for supporting the regime
- Free Burma Rangers
- A group working to help in Burma
- Contact the Olympic comitee
- Contact the International Olympic Committe here to demand that Beijing be stripped of the 2008 games due to their support for the Burmese Junta!
http://www.olympic.org/uk/utilities/...prm_action=req - Olympics boycott petition
- "We the undersigned petition the (UK) Prime Minister to Boycott the Chinese Olympics"
- Messages to Burma
- Leave messages to the Burmese people so they know they are not alone
- Burma Solidarity Network on Squidoo
- "The goal of the Burma Solidarity Network is to provide access to online educational and technological resources and assist members in utilizing these to meet their own goals - in addition to building a vibrant community of individuals who are fighting to bring democracy and respect for human rights to Burma."
- Burma: The Revolution on Squidoo
- more background information on Burma and more useful links.
"This Lens is your guide to the democratic resistance movements in Burma, from Karen State to Chin State and everything in between." - Uk Burma Actions
- Indymedia roundup of Uk solidarity protests and action with links to more information and coverage.
- US campaign for Burma
- News of US solidarity protests, petition China -
"Be a part of our 88,000 signatures campaign. I am asking people to collectively gather 88,000 signatures from around the world, calling on Chinese President Hu Jintao to compel Burma towards valid national reconciliation."
Also spread the word with flyers and guerilla art (pdf downloads)
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