BPF Boston: Burma Vigil in Cambridge 10/3/07

[BPF Boston chapter announcements]

Here's a couple of emails about Burma, one local and one national, 
that may be of interest.

-Craig

>Subject: Burma Vigil in Cambridge 10/3/07
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>Please join us and pass this information on to your networks!
>
>Peace Vigil for Myanmar (Burma)
>
>MIT Prajnopaya and Amnesty International (MIT Chapter) invites you to a
>Peace Vigil in solidarity with those persecuted in the recent violence in
>Myanmar (Burma). Now, more than ever, we are called to extend and
>demonstrate our sense of care, compassion, and freedom for all.
>
>Bring Signs (Release all Prisoners of Conscience Now!, Human Rights in
>Burma,etc...)
>
>Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 8PM
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Steps of the Main Building
>(77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA)
>
>
>
>Cynthia Gabriel
>Membership Program Coordinator
>Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office
>617-623-0202

And from the National BPF office:

1) Special Burma Edition of BPF Enewsletter Coming Out Tonight
We are working on a special edition of the BPF enewsletter, dedicated 
to the situation in Burma, to come out later tonight. It will pull 
together all the many, various threads of information we've received 
thus far, hopefully in a way that will inform and inspire people to 
effective action. It will include latest news, eyewitness accounts, 
action alerts, a list of news sources both in and outside of Burma, 
links to photos and blogs, and other articles. Please keep a lookout 
for it in your mailbox.

To subscribe: And, please encourage everyone who's interested in 
hearing news from BPF to sign up for our main e-newsletter/action 
alert list. When people sign up for this, they will receive the 
monthly enewsletter, plus the special action alerts that we send out 
on Burma and other issues. The subscription page is here: 
<http://www.bpf.org/html/get_involved/mailing_list/mailinglist.html>http://www.bpf.org/html/get_involved/mailing_list/mailinglist.html

2) News from Burma
Here is the latest news from Burma, by way of the Buddhist Channel. 
Very distressing...

Sources located in Yangon, Myanmar have provided confirmed reports to 
the Buddhist Channel on the status of monks currently detained by the 
secutiry forces. The informant also said that many civilians are 
being tortured by their apprehendors.

Last night a senior monk who had been allowed to visit novices held 
in Burma's notorious Insein jail said several had been sentenced to 
six years' imprisonment for taking part in the protests.

So far, about 1,000 of Burma's 400,000 monks have been arrested. Tens 
of thousands more are locked in monasteries, and many more have gone 
on hunger strike.

Read the full story here
<http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=51,5052,0,0,1,0>http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=51,5052,0,0,1,0


3) What We as a BPF Community Can Do
We've been having lots of conversations here in the BPF office about 
how to most effectively organize ourselves and BPF resources in the 
service of the people of Burma, and to connect with some of the key 
people involved in this situation. We'll be meeting as board and 
staff on Tuesday afternoon; after this meeting I imagine I'll have a 
more detailed update for you on ways that all of us, as a BPF 
community, can respond to this situation. I've been passing along all 
your ideas to this group -- thanks to everyone who has contacted me 
so far. And apologies if I haven't responded to you yet. The volume 
of email has been immense.

in peace,

Maia Duerr
Associate Director/Communications and Outreach
Buddhist Peace Fellowship

PO Box 3470, Berkeley, CA  94703
ph: 510-655-6169 ext. 310; fax: 510-655-1369
email: <mailto:maia at bpf.org>maia at bpf.org
www.bpf.org

"Every community needs a group of angelic troublemakers." -- Bayard Rustin
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