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Avaaz is raising funds for the International Burmese Monks Organization and related groups, which will transmit funds directly to monasteries in affected areas.
[See also Myanmar Seizes U.N. Food for Cyclone Victims and Blocks Foreign Experts – New York Times]
BPF hosted a beautiful peace walk for Burma the day the Olympic torch came to the USA.
[Watch a 3-minute video of] a wonderful interview with Jack Kornfield after the Golden Gate peace walk and also a slideshow from that day which has the walk and also the protests from around the city that day including the Tibetans, Burma activists etc.
Tell anyone you know in the area about this event in San Francisco led by Burmese monks and Buddhist clergy, including Jack Kornfield and other senior teachers, on Wednesday, April 9.
On April 9, San Francisco hosts the US stage of the relay taking the Olympic torch to Beijing. No other North American city is directly involved. Please send metta to those on the peace walk in San Francisco that day.
For other actions you can take, click here (then scroll down).
Please use your liberty to promote ours.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Women’s Union Report:
Caught Between Two Hells
Saturday, March 8 1:30 to 4:30pm
Peter Kaye Room, VPL
RSVP [details]
Delegation member Alan Senauke of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship said, “Wherever we went, people were very happy to meet with us, and welcomed the news that the world was still watching Burma, despite propaganda that things had returned to ‘normal.’ They asked us to carry the message that the crackdown is active and ongoing; that ‘normal’ for Burma under the military regime is a state of fear and repression.” Read the rest of this entry »
[from BPF Human Rights Program Coordinator]
Presently we think of our focus being:
* advocating and supporting the monks and nuns
* addressing arms sales to Burma
The full text of the first message to chapters from Margaret Howe follows. Read the rest of this entry »
The special section on Burma on the BPF website – Burma 2007: The Saffron Revolution – now contains a new update by BPF staffer Alan Senauke on What You Can Do to Help the People of Burma.
No one should be surprised that the regime cracked down; after all, that’s what regimes do when faced with dissent. The effects of the protests may be much deeper and longer lasting than the effects of the most recent round of terror against Burmese citizens. Exiled pro-democracy leaders, monks and students all claim that the movement survives… [read article]
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