9 posts tagged “burma is important”
The contributions to the Horse's Burma is Important Project just keep coming. Here's one of the latest, from Jason Pruitt:
Use'm on your site, your MySpace page, whatever. Just GET THE WORD OUT!
It's only 5 bucks.
Designed by The Opposition design crew.
Get one while they last.
[Oct 21 update: they're already sold out!]
Author Seth Harwood has given the Horse and the Burma is Important Project a nice little plug on his podcast:
"Couple of words here for the Burma Is Important Project. Burma IS important. Some serious shit is goin' down over there. My man Gomyo the Hoodie Monk sent me this this week. Monks are getting attacked over there in Burma. Go to theworsthorse.net. [...] Look at this stuff, follow it. [...]. Let's all join forces and let the world know that Burma is important!"
Shoot, Seth -- thanks for taking the time. Great stuff. Burma IS important.
Thanks to anyone and everyone who take the time to spread the word.
We've also created a new page, called the Burma is Important Updater. It's not complete by any means, but it's meant to be your one-stop spot for keeping updated on Burma developments via Big media and blogs and other sites.
Last night, below, we posted a link to a Daily Mail piece that suggested that thousands of the Burmese monks who had been gathered up had been massacred.
This seems, thankfully, to be untrue. the Daily Mail has since replaced
the page's headline and re-fit its content. While it does contain the
same imagery (including the image of a murdered monk face down in
swamp), its headline is now "Burma: UN envoy meets top general as regime blames foreigners for violence."
Sorry for what looks like alarmism -- but the story had been live on the Daily Mail site when we posted it, and therefore seemed quite real.
Let's hope it's not.
Here's the page that the story is on, and what it looks like now. (Warning: graphic imagery.)
It's still not good news.
10/02/07 The Daily Mail reports: "Thousands dead in massacre; monks dumped in jungle."
And meanwhile, CNN.com currently has no Burma coverage on its homepage.
UPDATE to this update: this report seems to be untrue. See above posting.
Thanks to everybody who's linked to the Burma is important Project -- and also to the two folks so far who have created original imagery for it!
We've updated them on the page.
Also added to the site is a new page: the Burma Updater, which contains news, links, and resources useful for following the Saffron Revolution.
Included is info on and a link to the Int'l Day of Action plan which is rapidly unfolding on Facebook:
Saturday 6TH OCTOBER 2007; 12 NOON in every major city across the world. We are marching in solidarity with the monks and ordinary people of Burma who are risking their lives for freedom and democracy."
"So far there are 256,590 members! About 5,000 wall posts, 350 message
board threads, 470 posted links, 35 uploaded videos, and 700 uploaded
photos," reports reader Liam Keane. Thanks to him for the tip.
Please check any or all of it out.
FREE BURMA!
FREE TIBET!
FREE ALL BEINGS!
All.we've just launched the Burma is important Project. Hope you'll check it out, and participate.
Also about Burma, kind of -- check this out:
It would seem that The Economist would have some of the best coverage going. (And if they don't, I'm not sure whose is better.) To the right is the cover of their current issue.
Well done, Economist.
...On the other hand, on a recent visit to their website, I was met with what has got to be one of the stupidest graphic judgment-calls that I've seen in a long time.
You're almost sure to wince.
This little marketing request appeared over a reproduction of the cover on the homepage.
Come on.
On The Economist's webpage???
I haven't seen it again.
I really hope it was a hack.
