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Why Burma needs you on April 9
Sing up April 9th actions:
http://www.badasf.org/2008/event-sign-up.htm
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stand-by-the-people-of-burma---no-olympics-torch
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Dear Colleagues,
The eyes of the world will be on the streets of San Francisco when the Beijing Olympic Torch arrives on April 9 – the only visit to North America. Chinese government really wants to make the street of San Francisco looks like the Streets of Beijing -- filled only with cheering crowds. But, we are working with many groups to highlight China's irresponsibly causing and committing Human Rights abuses around the world (Visit ExposeBeijing.org).
As much as Olympic is precious to all of us, we must not let Chinese government hide its atrocious image under the cover of Olympic -- prolong brutal dictatorship and causing continued great pain and suffering to 50 millions people in Burma due to China's great military, economic and diplomatic support to the dictators to exploit Burma's oil and gas, her market, and her roads to India Ocean for its military; in short --- China’s gain, Burma’s pain.
Please do something on April 9 to give voice to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her 50 millions people. It will be the great and rare opportunity to expose Burma and her cause at the world stage again -- after last year protests in Burma.
Why Burma needs you to come out on April 9:
1. Chinese government is pressuring the San Francisco Mayor really hard that he is behaving like China's representative rather than our Mayor. He previously stated that we can not protest along the torch route, but only at the staged free-speech zones -- major insult to the city and the people in the area.
2. Due to great local push back, he is now backing off, but he still scares us
that the protesters will be outnumbered 1 to 10 by the cheering crowd. Given
that large Chinese Community lives in San Francisco that is not an overstatement
at all.
3. We have also learned that, other communities are rallying their supporters
and thousands are coming to San Francisco from all over the United States on
April 9 to highlight their causes.
4. As for Burma, the events in Rangoon has already passed six months, and much
of our emotion has died down and therefore it does not look like very many of us
will be on the streets for her that day -- at least not yet unless each and
every one of us steps up.
5. The reality is that nothing has changed in Burma, and we must restore our feeling, emotion, and outrage that we had on or around September 24, 25, 26 of 2007 during the saffron events in Burma. Let's fill the streets with Burma supporters on April 9. Therefore Burma needs you to come out on April 9 for Burma.
What you can do:
Thanks,
Nyunt Than
510 220 1323 (Cell)