Make a documentary for Aung San Suu Kyi
This is cool: U.S. campaign for Burma is starting an initiative to invite anyone with a camera to videotape a 10-minute or less birthday message to imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner and rightful leader of Burma, Aang San Suu Kyi. The initiative is called Beaming Burma and I think it’s a neat idea.
Visiting Southern Thailand last month was like a glorious punch in the gut for me: the staff of Grassroots HRE, who not only support undocumented Burmese workers in Thailand but are themselves undocumented workers in Thailand, were amazing. Their mutual support and commitment to a Free Burma was moving. Now I finally understand the real human struggle behind all those Free Burma bumper stickers. Every Burmese person I met was so kind, so humble, so helpful, and so very nationalistic — that is, to the Burma not imprisoned by a violent dictatorship.
That said, this is a cool video opportunity. Go to it!