Bloggers' 7 Day Strike Action for a FREE BURMA! - 7th to 13th October
LATEST UPDATE :
6th October : I've written to the Burma Campaign UK/Asia/USA/Canada/free-burma.org regarding the 'blogger strike action for a Free Burma'. BCUK has passed this on for publicising on their exclusive 'upper class' 'facebook' site.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, neither was it brought down in one. Gandhi didn’t manage to evict the British from India by a single day of fast and prayer. It took a concerted and consistent effort.
A single day of action basically enables the powers-that-allow-the-Burmese-Junta-to-be to turn the apathetic cheek for a period of 24 hours from bloggers in the expectation that they would go on to mind their own business thereafter. Let’s not rely solely on the initiatives of official organizations. Bloggers must have a sense of their own cosmopolitan significance to initiate their own efforts to complement that of organizations. Hence, a 7 Day Strike Action for a Free Burma by all Bloggers would go a long way in catching the attention of the media and generate a life of its own in various forms after the period.
Thus, I call for a 7 Day Bloggers Strike for Burma commencing this Sunday – 7th to 13th October 2007.
Let’s resolve, for a period of 7 days,
- to publish nothing but ‘Free Burma’ related articles
Or
- to republish the post with our choice of ‘Free Burma’ graphics once every single day so that the directories, media, governments, will take note of bloggers’ strike action for a Free Burma.
Or
- To refrain from publishing anything and allow the post with the ‘Free Burma’ icon to stand as the first article on our respective sites for the strike period.
Please spread the word with virus-like tenacity to your friends, colleagues, ‘blogger neighbourhood’. Those suffering under the Burmese regime deserve your effort.
FREE BURMA!
ed-infinitum
Graphics
Please copy and post any of the following graphics as part of your '7 Day Strike Action for a FREE BURMA'
Comments
yer got me Ed. just wake up and will repond. d.
I have been told I have to rest anyway so I may as well kill two birds with the one stone. Oh that is not very Buddhist of me, just do two things at the one time without the injury to any life form.
I shall get onto spreading the word tomorrow :)
Hi Ed,
Excellent intiative again! Count me in.
It's too bad the world does not respond very positively to what bloggers have to say (as can be seen by the lack of response to your other initiatives in your side bar). Well, at least we have done our part.
Cheers,
v
Thanks for your support of the initiative.
Hi Chez,
Which is not 'very Buddhist of [you]' Chez? Using this opportunity to rest or using the analogy, 'killing 2 birds with one stone' ;-). Thank you very much for spreading the word Chez.
Hi V,
Thanks for the encouragement V. 'At least we have done our part' is very consolatory indeed! I suppose that's what keeps me going in the face of general social disinterest.
Hey Kev,
Thanks Kev. I suppose what matters is that we're all right beside Burma in this. 'ed' is of no consequence here as he is just the instrument, a conduit, a messenger, nothing else. Thanks again for your support mate!
LATEST UPDATE : The 'Burma Campaign UK' has passed on my email to them regarding the proposed 'bloggers' 7 day strike action' to one of their counterparts to publicise it. May God/providence bless them for taking on initiatives by bloggers. Hope this is the start of a symbiotic relationship between organisations and bloggers where both take the lead every now and then to complement the efforts of the other.