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Last Friday I took part...
Sep. 30th, 2007 03:13 pm...in a march from the Burmese Chancery to the Chinese Embassy in downtown D.C. to protest the junta's crackdown on Burmese demonstrators. (FWIW, the Big City back home plays host to the largest community of Burmese exiles in the country; it's pretty neat that there are seven or eight Buddhist Temples operating in the bastion of reactionary, conservative Christianity that is INakaland.)
It was quite gratifying to watch the Chinese diplomats perform the walk of shame from the embassy doors once working hours had ended. (Seriously, these people sent a dude with a leaf blower out to try to disrupt the speeches.) But even more gratifying was the massive amount of people, from all walks of life, who showed up to take part--( everyone from Buddhist Monks to Code Pink )
Will it make a difference? Probably not as much as anyone would hope, but at least it's better than sitting on my ass in INakaville, wishing I could have done something.
ETA: Fuck Ratzinger and the Catholic Church for ordering Catholic clergy in Burma not to participate in demonstrations. Talk about bullshit...
That will be all.
It was quite gratifying to watch the Chinese diplomats perform the walk of shame from the embassy doors once working hours had ended. (Seriously, these people sent a dude with a leaf blower out to try to disrupt the speeches.) But even more gratifying was the massive amount of people, from all walks of life, who showed up to take part--( everyone from Buddhist Monks to Code Pink )
Will it make a difference? Probably not as much as anyone would hope, but at least it's better than sitting on my ass in INakaville, wishing I could have done something.
ETA: Fuck Ratzinger and the Catholic Church for ordering Catholic clergy in Burma not to participate in demonstrations. Talk about bullshit...
That will be all.
