Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings

Show Your Support for Aung San Suu Kyi



The great rock-and-roll band U2 is asking fans to wear the mask picture above in support of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s Prime Minister-elect and Nobel Peace laureate who is currently standing trial before the ruling military junta on trumped-up charges of violating the terms of her house arrest. The band writes:

    Cut it out.

    Attach some elastic or string to the sides.

    Try it on for size.

    (If you’re really clever print it on card or laminate it

    Or tape on a little handle to hold it in front of your face.

    Wear it to work or college. Wear it on the bus or the train. Wear it in the pub or at the shops.

    And don’t forget.

    Bring it to a U2 show.

    Put it on with thousands of others when the band strike up the opening bars of ‘Walk On’ [the band's song about and dedicated to Suu Kyi]. Wear it to to show the world that you have not forgotten. ‘Please use your liberty to promote ours,’ says Aung San Suu Kyi.

    Use your liberty to promote hers. And the liberty of the people of Burma.

Download your mask here.

Burma News (7.5.09)

“U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon traveled to Myanmar, also known as Burma, to plea for the release of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.” Photo by Mark Garten for the Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.
Here’s the latest news from Burma:

  • The Wall Street Journal reprints in full the speech given by U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon in Rangoon yesterday. In it, the Secretary-General outlines his vision for a democratic Burma.
  • CNN reports that the junta has denied Secretary-General Ban access to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s Prime Minister-elect and Nobel Peace laureate who is currently standing trial on sham charges of violating the terms of her house arrest.
  • The Los Angeles Times reports on the “low expectations” of the Secretary-General’s visit.
  • Reuters reports that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the junta to halt Suu Kyi’s trial and to release her.
  • Reuters also reports that her trial has been suspended a week.
  • The Associated Press reports on Burma’s “frustrated generation” looking abroad.
  • Louis Charbonneau, Reuters’ U.N. correspondent, reports on Naypyidaw, Burma’s “ghost town capital.”
  • Asia Times Online interviews Burmese writer and historian Thant Myint-U.

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