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LET'S GET STIRRED UP!

Show Your Solidarity With the Saffron Revolution

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO:

- International Day of Action for a Free Burma

Saturday 6TH OCTOBER 2007 -- Support the Monks in Burma @ 12 NOON in every major city across the world.

We are marching in solidarity with the monks and the people of Burma who risk their lives everyday for freedom and democracy.

Wait.... "we" (Morgantown) are not marching?

WVU is not stirring up the students?

And they call this a college town?

Why isn't there a show of support for those suffering so needlessly in Burma and on the Thai/Burma border, where our Megan just spent so much time working with the refugee women and children?

Photo: Megan Clavier (Mae Sot, Thailand- 2007)

DID YOU KNOW?

In Eastern Burma, the military (supported by the Chinese govt) the military regime has destroyed, burned, or relocated over 3,000 villages.

At least one million refugees have fled the country (and most are living in Mae Sot)

An additional million people remain inside the country as internal refugees, facing abuse in the forms of rape, torture, extortion and murder.

Up to 70,000 child soldiers have been forced into the military by the Burmese military junta.

Sexual violence (women take note) is used as a weapon of war in Eastern Burma, terrorizing thousands of women and their families. (Want to see images of the many children born out of this abuse and abandoned in Mae Sot?)

The United Nations Security Council has remained shamefully silent in the case of Burma. For that matter, our own country has done the same. Could it be the large volume of oil that lies within the Burma border?