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I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004. Luckily, the hidden notes escaped detection and she was released.
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. Free Burma!??? Remember, it will take a whole lot more than just putting up a post with the graphic and the text free Burma.
Since May 1 (eerily, 3 days before Cyclone Nargis), Fanista launched a campaign called Burma: It Can't Wait with the US Campaign for Burma and the Human Rights Action Center. The site has featured provocative short films starring actors, filmmakers and musicians on the topic of human rights and Burma. s 63rd birthday.
Three months ago today, Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burma making more than one million people homeless and killing upwards of 125,000 people. The Burma Campaign UK Or had we forgotten that? Click here to view the embedded video.
Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends. ll receive it.
For resources on the struggle against the repressive military government in Burma in the US go t0 the US Campaign for Burma. Some useful links: Brian Alexander has an interesting post on the role of mobile phones and web technology in the mobilization of the movement within Burma.
Burma Bites, a spin off of Oakland, California-based Burma Superstar, was designed for delivery and takeout, and will offer versions of menu items from the parent restaurant as well as new items in environmentally-friendly to-go containers, DoorDash said. According to the Chronicle , all menu items are priced between $12 and $19.
We held the meeting in Chiang Mai because it’s where our longtime partner the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) is headquartered.
This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines.
Monks fighting for freedom in Burma know this. One of the things that I have been convinced of for some time (more than 20 years, I think) is that the means and the ends are the same. We cannot expect peace if we don't act peacefully. Jesus, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King all knew this. We need to know it, and internalize it.
Monks fighting for freedom in Burma know this. One of the things that I have been convinced of for some time (more than 20 years, I think) is that the means and the ends are the same. We cannot expect peace if we don't act peacefully. Jesus, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King all knew this. We need to know it, and internalize it.
Recent events in Burma in 2007 and Iran in 2009 and even the US in 2010 reveal that governments can easily comb activists’ footage online and seek out protesters and citizens for arrest, persecution or worse. The ability to stream video directly from a mobile phone (i.e.
If you are thinking you want to volunteer your time, Natalie Jesionka has a post on Our World titled " Responding to Burma Crisis " that includes a list of opportunities to travel to the Burmese border and volunteer your time and energy to the underground grassroots NGO activity. Women's League of Burma. The Mae Tao Clinic.
Another HRP partner, the Network for Human Rights Documentation (ND-Burma), which currently uses Martus to document human rights violations in Burma , was represented by the Earth Rights Initiative. Each of us drew on case studies and lessons learned from our own work.
I joined the various Burma Facebook groups early on because my colleagues in Cambodia were involved from the beginning and documented some of the activism. I helped her track down the people behind the Support the monks Campaign and Facebook Burma Group, an unofficial representative in the UK named Imran Jamal, Burma Global Action Network.
Here's the information on the notecard: Please join us in solidarity for the monks in Burma who are beng killed and imprisoned.a Contact US Campaign for Burma to sign up to hold a march, vigil or any sort of event in your area- thelma@uscampaignforburma.org there is also a protest being held on Burning Life sim today. We MUST protest!
I spotted this photo in Tharum's Facebook photos the title is "Quiet Vigil Outside Burma Embassy in Phnom Penh." Photo by Tharum , found on his Facebook Profile. That's Sopheap in the red shirt. I met her in Cambodia last month. " Mean Lux has a set on Flickr here and you can see a photo of his red t-shirt.
One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (July 23, 2011) 12.
." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.
This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.
You can read more about the many faces of the Martus user community and the impact that Martus has had on human rights groups , from Africa to Burma to Guatemala. In many cases, Martus also helped users turn those first-hand accounts into evidence of abuse in order to advance their causes.
Other examples of using SlideShare for disaster relief or donations: Burma Cyclone Relief Effort There is also a regularly updated slideshow about the number of victims by Oliver Ding who also created the 24 ways to give slideshare below. View | Upload your own.
The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times. This past year, our HRP team helped the human rights movement achieve great things.
Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.
On September 28th you could have uploaded a photo of yourself wearing a red shirt to Flickr to show your solidarity with the monks in Burma as part of Red Shirt Day for Burma/Birma/ Myanmar. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool. Don't be afraid of the tech. Ask for help.
I'm supporting Free Burma Day. Via Charlene Li analyzing the potential worth of Facebook offers some user stats: This past August, Facebook had 19 million monthly visitors in the US according to Nielsen Netratings, compared to 9 million a year ago. Facebook says that it has 42 million active users worldwide.
The 15-page PDF includes the pros and cons of using Facebook for activism, a step-by-step guide to organizing an activism campaign on Facebook, and examples of campaigns from Burma, Morocco, and Egypt. It is a quick read and very useful.
The US Campaign for Burma is asking for a boycott of the Games: "China is paralyzing UN Security Council action on Burma. points out that the Olympics' start date, August 8, 2008, is the, "the 20th anniversary of the massacre of peaceful democracy activists in Burma." olympics China human rights Tibet Burma Darfur
Many blogHers, like Rebeca at the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. But, on Friday, my blog turned from red to pink! I've gotten to the point where I avoid pink ribbon madness for corporate profit as Suzanne Reisman describes it.
Also note that your local station may list the program for that evening as "Burma: State of Fear" which is the headlining story. If you are not sure of your local PBS station, Click here to search for your local PBS station on the PBS website. Full disclosure: I'm friends with the Editor for FRONTLINE World, David Ritsher.
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to support the monks in Burma. " While technically, I'm probably way over the legal age limit to be included in the Facebook Generation, nonetheless I'm once again wearing one of my one of my favorite causes as fashion on my blog this month. This month's fashion statement is gray and green to match the colors of Creative Commons logo.
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We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. Kristen has been helping the TRC staff to develop a process that converts the qualitative information, contained in thousands of victim and witness testimonies, into data that can be used for quantitative analysis.
Help A Family of Five in Burma Stay Alive. When Partners asked the Internally Displaced People of Eastern Burma what they needed to stay alive while they hid from the Burmese army, they named it: 75kg of rice, 5kg of salt, 1 cooking pot, 1 machete, 1 lighter, 1 plastic sheet for shelter. Photo by Jackol.
Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits.
Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. Your supporters are better at it - let your supporters do it.
For example, I started organizing around Burma last year in solidarity with the profoundly nonviolent uprising in Burma. For me, that meant being a different kind of activist than the kind I've been before, and actually organizing with different kinds of people. It was really wonderful.
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