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Burma Crisis Update: A Blogger Gets 20 Years, 14 Democracy Activists Get 65 Years Each; Meanwhile, Business as Usual for Energy Giants
by Richard Power [article]
“… Their sentences today were related to their involvement in the 2007 demonstrations, popularly known as the “Saffron Revolution.” Additional charges against them remain outstanding.”
Details and registration here. Proceeds to Emergency Assistance Team Burma (Mae Tao Clinic).
Tea for Irrawaddy
Sunday, Nov 23, 1:00pm (to 4:00pm)
University Golf Club
5185 University Blvd
The International Burmese Monks Organization (IBMO) has called for September 26 to be a Day of Action for Burma…
Western Buddhists owe a debt of gratitude to the Burmese for helping to bring the Buddha’s teachings to the West. They have kept and treasured the dharma for two thousand years. Whether Theravadan, Mahayana or Vajrajana, all Western Buddhists have been touched by the depth of Burmese Buddhism. And now many monasteries remain closed and thousands of monks remain unaccounted for. [article]
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 »
