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from sweetness and light

Activists send female underwear to Burmese embassies

Martin Hodgson

Friday October 19, 2007

Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma’s military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime’s recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese embassies. ...

visit the site to read more...its pretty interesting

i donated my girliest pair to the cause, red and silky, just to rub it in a little more than necessary
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hat tip to hess for the heads up

Song of the day: lucy stoners- amy ray

"In every post punk bar there's a dressing room wall
where the rockboy band will make it's mark-
one hundred different pictures of private parts and some girl going down.
And there's that faggot bashing poetry but the boys are just saying
'love me please.'
In every hate filled phrase they just give it away..
boys, you give yourselves away "

(what different attitudes we have culturally, but its all the same....yes?)

waning or perservering: its all about perception

the ap reports that the "hope is waning among protesters" for myanmar protesters while the bbc says that there are "New protests on Rangoon street"....despite three days of crackdowns on pro-democracy protests.", its amazing how perception can vary...or is it?

now if we are the country for freedom, doesnt it seem odd that our news reports certain failure while the british news brings forward the courage of the continued effort? all over right now, we hear and say our government and media are using psychology to get us to buy or believe, and here is just another example

people all over the world are protesting president bush, just like all over the world people are protesting the junta....it is too dangerous for the american people to feel encouraged by these protests, it brings to much rage and too many ideas, too much creativity...remember, it was once the streets of america that were flashed around the world on the evening news, fighting for our civil rights, fighting racism, fighting war.....do you see how they are trying to keep us down? ever hear of the term "mind fuckers"? oh, and i just heard about milton friedman and intend to learn and disseminate information on his ideas...as if we had ever bothered to learn about the past, we might have prevented the current direction of this country

and for anyone who didnt know, the entire bush administration the whole way through these eight years has been filled with the same people who worked with nixon- and i thought we all hated him and his ideas, that cheat, that thief!

Song of the day: the future is a war- Exene Cervenka

the bbc sure looks different....

i have not seen any photos from american news sources that show the magmnitude of what has really happened in myanmar...and is still happening according to bbc reports (though all the headlines over here say the junta has created quiet in the streets)

Song of the day: fixing to die rag- country joe and the fish

something worth dying for?

i knew very little of the history of burma, but the current situation has my attention...

hess has a friend over there and while she isnt saying much on her own space, she has been keeping hess up-to-date, so i suggest you check it out

Song of the day: march of death- zac de la rocha

"i was born with the voice of a riot, a storm
lightening the function, the form
far from the norm, i wont follow like cattle
i'm more like a catalyst; calm in the mix of battle"