Urgent Action: 3000 Villages in Eastern Burma Destroyed (Message re-posted from US Campaign for Burma)
Help us send 3,000 postcards to Kofi Annan demanding that he immediately press for a binding UN Security Council resolution on Burma. He has called for action on Sudan, Lebanon, and elsewhere where there have been huge refugee flows and deaths of civilians. Much of the destruction of villages has occurred on his watch as UN Secretary General.
Sign Up NOW and we’ll send you postcards, a video, and printed materials in the mail today.
1) Collect signatures on these postcards to Kofi Annan. If you are a student, set up a table on campus and ask your students, staff, and faculty to sign. If you are a professional, ask your family, friends, and colleagues to sign the postcards.
Ask everyone who signs a postcard to donate a single quarter for the cost of postage. Give each person who sends a postcard an information sheet about Eastern Burma so they can learn more — we will mail you these sheets.
On November 3, count up all the individually-signed postcards you’ve collected, tell us how many they are, slap 24 cents of postage on them, and drop them in the nearest mail box!
2) Host a film screening at your school or home. We will send you a new documentary DVD about Eastern Burma from the human rights organization WITNESS and its partner, Burma Issues.
After the film is over, call up a trusty Burma-expert on speakerphone or video conferencing and have a Q&A session with between us and your audience. Make sure nobody leaves your event without signing a postcard!
3) Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. You can write your opinion about the situation in eastern Burma and send it to your local newspaper, student newspaper, or even a national newspaper.
Blog about Burma, too! One out of every four people who use the internet in the US reads blogs online – get your message out there every way you can.
We’ve compiled some facts about Eastern Burma that you will want to include in your letter and easy instructions on how to submit it to a paper.
Download facts on Eastern Burma (in pdf),
Letter-to-the-Editor Help (in pdf).
4) Join us for an event with a message in New York City on November 11th, 2006. This will be the first-ever demonstration to demand United Nations action on Eastern Burma, and we’ll provide ample ways to express your compassion for the people of Burma and to make sure your voices (and thereby the voices of the people of Eastern Burma) are heard.
5) Make origami houses. Whether or not you can make it to New York on November 11, be part of that precedent-setting day by helping to make more than 3000 origami houses that we use in New York to demonstrate the scale of the Burmese military’s brutality. We are building an origami house for every single village destroyed.
Download instructions (coming soon!) for making an origami house, get as many of your friends and family to make as many as they can, and send them to the US Campaign for Burma headquarters by November 3 along with your postcards so we can take them to New York!
