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And I DO think we can make a difference in this way. Showing your support for the cause in SL might not make the regime quake in their boots.. but it does help to keep Burma in the press and that means the people will not be forgotten, charities will get more donations and the international community will put more pressure on the regime!

“Aung San Suu Kyi, remains in detention, having been held under house arrest on and off for 18 years. On 9 October last year, she clocked up 4,000 days in detention. On 24 October, that will come to 12 years.”

Articles here:
http://slleftunity.blogspot.com/2007/10/second-life-activists-solidarity-across.html
and here
http://slleftunity.blogspot.com/2007/10/second-life-burma-protests-hi-rez-photo.html
and details of free teeshirt here
http://slleftunity.blogspot.com/2007/09/free-tee-shirt-freedom-for-burma.html

And for my friend Prok – another demo that seemed not to generate the usual “Pig bomb” publicity from the SL press – but this one was against IBM (hmmmm)

http://slleftunity.blogspot.com/2007/10/unions-20-how-virtual-protest-can-bring.html

The photo above is of a rally in Delhi on Oct. 1 (Desmond Boylan, Reuters.) Around the world, people

International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words „Free Burma!“.

http://www.free-burma.org

Do you actually believe that the government of Burma somehow monitors Second Life and counts the number of avatars wearing red shirts? I doubt that they are afraid of us in any way. The best thing we can do here is provide education to residents about what’s going on in Burma, and links to websites that will allow residents to take action in Real Life.

“I disagree that such demonstrations have no effect. They sure do. They are part of what creates a groundswell of public pressure all over, gets in the news media, and begins to affect governments, including one’s own, to do more. There are Burmese monks all over the UN area now in New York, meditating and demonstration, and as diplomats walk to and from sessions of the General Assembly and Security Council now, they see these demonstrators peacefully chanting, and they see that they’re getting a lot of support. And that has a cumulative effect, as it has done for situations like this through history, whether Chile under Pinochet or Poland under Jaruzelski.

It’s all part of the puzzle that is needed to bring down tyrannical governments. It’s also mainly about solidarity with people who are oppressed, and not breaking faith with them.
Some people live in suburbia, or in a town with no place to demonstrate reasonably — but they could get together in Second Life, from different cities and countries, and have a presence, just as much as they could going on the Internet to sign a petition — and that means something.”

Hear hear.
The net like other Media DOES have the Power to Spread the truth about what is happening in Burma, That is why the Government thare has Cut it off along with the other media. IF they were not Afraid of what people Inside, AND outside the country would say, and do, they would not have taken that Step.
This Protest Would mean something if Staged in SL, and the Burmese Government knows it.

Maria.

Once again slightly getting the facts wrong to take a dig at me. Good job.

But he is right about China doing most of the action blocking any outside help to Burma/Myanmar. At least he is advocating direct action.

It’s all part of the puzzle that is needed to bring down tyrannical governments. It’s also mainly about solidarity with people who are oppressed, and not breaking faith with them.
Some people live in suburbia, or in a town with no place to demonstrate reasonably — but they could get together in Second Life, from different cities and countries, and have a presence, just as much as they could going on the Internet to sign a petition — and that means something.

I don’t exaggerate that “something” — in my view, calling a Congressional or parliamentary office in person, on the phone, or sending a fax, simply has a far greater impact. So I would definitely recommend that sort of action rather than something easier and more facile on the Internet or SL, where a real, live person is then in theory able to tell his bosses, hey, we have 100 faxes, or 200 phone calls, or whatever. That matters.

I imagine Jessica Holyoke will be busy toeing the Chinese line on this, and urging the Lindens to expel all the protesters in case Myanmar, and its backer at the Security Council, China, are upset, and decide to block their citizens from Second Life.

That sure was a blunder with Pixeleen making that wierd moral equivalence like that, as if spoiled children in a video game with leisure time and DSL lines could be compared to poor monks in Burma getting their heads beaten and getting dragged to jail. Ugh. But it’s what I’ve come to expect from the Voice of Pixeleen.

Even so, I hope people will get past that and wear the shirt and show up at the demo, it costs nothing and it’s effortless, the perfect sort of protest for the affluent and the sedentary. Of course, if you can do something more real in real life, try to do that, too. Even just from the Internet:

Go here, to Amnesty International’s Action Center, to join the petition campaign to Bush:

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.jhKPIXPCIoE/b.2590179/k.C43E/Take_Action_Online/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&aid=9315&tr=y&auid=3037971

But on this particular issue, Bush just isn’t the problem, and this is one of my problems with the “surrogate advocacy” approach of Amnesty and other U.S. groups. In fact, the U.S. just sponsored a resolution on Burma at the SC that China blocked. China is the problem.

So go here and write a politely worded, brief note of concern to the Chinese Mission to the UN:

chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn

It’s also helpful to support non-governmental groups doing work in this area. There are really no established U.S. relief groups working in Burman/Myanmar because the government doesn’t give them a license, and it’s a closed country.

Here’s one of the few groups operating refugee camps along the Thai/Burmese border, and also assisting monks inside the country if you wish to make a direct donation to their work. It’s a Danish humanitarian organization:

http://www.danchurchaid.org/

It’s in partnership with ECHO (European Commission’s humanitarian agency) and is reputable.