Just a reminder! If you have ANYTHING to say about the horrific oppression, repression and slaughter of innocents in Burma/Myanmar, say it tomorrow.
Free Burma! International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October
International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words “Free Burma!”.
We will also try to have the banner up nice and big here, it even matches our drapes
The call to not post on the 4th is great for smaller or individual blogs, but I think we can do more to help by writing whatever we can about Burma.
Please help if you can.
Since most of us don’t know much about Burma, here are some links, starting with Jill’s excellent post from NION.
Here is a site with pics to give a bit of a feeling for Burma.
A page for collecting the names of corporations screwing with the Burmese.
It’s parent site
As I said earlier to oculus “Ideally we would have a flood of diaries…even if they are repetitive, short, or even not very good (pre-empting all excuses, lol) to show our support for the People of Burma!”
Let’s do whatever small thing we can do here to help.
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I can put something together for tomorrow!
…called Ocean of Blood, which was posted on Moratorium Day. Too soon to post it again, so I’m going with what I have scheduled. Besides Thursday and Friday are already in the queue. Busy beaver.
When I was a child, my mother started buying a set of Funk and Wagnall’s encyclopedia. She got into the g’s before no more were purchased. So when I had to do a report about an element, I picked germanium; when I had to do a science project, it was about earthworms going dormant when they dry out and how they resuscitate when they are subsequently hydrated; and when I had to do a report about a city in South America, I chose Buenos Aires.
And when I had to do a report about a foreign country, I chose Burma. I’ve always tried to keep an eye on the country since then…which is probably 45 years.