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How to bring pressure on Burma and China

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By clemmati (Contact - View My Woyano)
Published Tue 02 Oct 2007, 321 Views, 4 Comments

There isn't much we can do as individuals, but there are a few things.



We can petition and appeal and demonstrate

Awaaz:

Our emergency petition to stop the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Burma is exploding, with nearly 500,000 signers from every nation of the world. But the situation in Burma remains desperate, with reports of hundreds of monks being massacred and tortured. Burma's rulers have also killed and expelled international journalists, cutting off global media coverage of their cruelty.

China is still the key - the country with the most power to halt the Burmese generals' reign of terror. We're delivering our message this week with a massive ad campaign in major newspapers, beginning with a full page ad in the Financial Times worldwide tomorrow, and in the South China Morning Post on Thursday. The strength of the ad comes from the number of petition signers listed – can we reach our goal of 1 million signatures this week? The link to sign the petition and view the ad is below, forward this email to all your friends and family!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/u.php

Burma UK

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Burmacrackdown/

http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/eu_action.html

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24957770200

from Facebook, Olympics e-addresses

http://en.beijing2008.cn/bocog/contactus/

and we can write to companies trading with Burma

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2181658,00.html


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    varga ~ 8 months ago
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    That's true, we can appeal and demonstrate, and show them that we care, and that we don't forget.
    Here's a link, with constant updates on the situation in Burma, where Ko htike also mentions about a international protest October 4th. http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/
    ( Right now I don't have time to make it a link you just can click on, but copy and paste works fine too, eh?
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      varga ~ 8 months ago
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      Hmm, well, it apparently became a link without much work anyway. Ah well. Good....................................
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        clemmati ~ 8 months ago
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        The comment boxes make the links automatically -- many thanks, varga, for posting that link.
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        varga ~ 8 months ago
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        I also forgot yesterday, this link, which contains material from Niknayman, and other people inside Burma, it's all translated into English. http://burmamyanmargenocide.blogspot.com/
        You also have Mizzima News, a good source.
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          AdGuy
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          This is my two cents...

             
          Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)

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