Blog Action Burma / Blogaktion Burma ((Oct 4, 2007 is the Day))

A Wiki is up and running ((thanks to German bloggers !)). More info in German, English and French here...

http://blogaktion-burma.stots.de/doku.php

Note that the planned day is Oct 4, 2007 ((updated info and various suggestions for action in the link above)).

Even though your blog may have nothing to do with Burma, please consider participating and read up on the topic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Burmese_anti-government_protests

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suu_Kyi

and

http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/dirty_list/dirty_list_details.html

Consider contacting the list of companies active in Burma in your country. If travel operators argue that they work on a private basis / with local people and don't support the regime, do not buy into this argument. Nobel Prize Winner Suu Kyi and the Democracy movement stated again and again:

Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese democracy movement have asked tourists not to visit Burma because it helps fund the regime and gives it legitimacy.

Now you can either believe a for-profit tour operator or a Nobel Prize Winner under house arrest for almost 20 years...it's up to you to decide.

It might also be a good time to think about what regimes China - hosting the Olympic games in 2008 - is supporting and ((North Korea, Burma...)) and where it is threatening people ((Chinese Dissidents, people in Tibet, Taiwan...)):