BPF Boston: A Day for Aung San Suu Kyi this June

[BPF Boston chapter announcements]

Dear friends . . . The email below describes a way of honoring Aung San 
Suu Kyi on her 63rd birthday with a voluntary "house arrest" event June 
13/14 . . . I am thinking that this would be a wonderful practice 
opportunity for our community and would love to get together with a few 
people who might help organize a boston-area event . . . we could 
either organize one large event and try to get as many people as 
possible (we could see if we could use Harvard Divinity School, 
Cambridge Buddhist Association or some other venue) or organize a bunch 
of home-based events that would be somehow connected . . . if anyone is 
interested in working on this with me please reply by email . . .with 
metta, joan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: United States Campaign for Burma <
uscampaignforburma at mail.democracyinaction.org>
Date: Mar 13, 2008 9:32 AM
Subject: Will You Give a Day for Aung San Suu Kyi this June?

Will You Give a Day for Aung San Suu Kyi this June?  Aung San Suu Kyi
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FkPtc5zLNVC0WFsb8WRtSZ8J0tFJu%2B%2FU>is
still under house arrest as the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace
Prizerecipient, and we are asking for your help.
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uz4K9zTWM%2BpTfepQhI0%2BLp8J0tFJu%2B%2FU>

This summer, Aung San Suu Kyi may spend her 63rd birthday under house
arrest.   We are asking people around the world to "arrest themselves" 
for 24 hours in solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi.  Can you hold an 
event the weekend before her birthday that will not only honor she and 
the people of Burma, but contribute to the struggle for a free Burma?

Four years ago, when almost no one knew about Aung San Suu Kyi, 60 
people hosted events for her 60th birthday.  The next year, 200 people
participated, then 300 the following year.  Now we are trying to 
organize the biggest global event for Aung San Suu Kyi in history -- 
organizing 500 events.

You don't have to hand yourself over to a brutal regime!  Instead just
restrict yourself to your home for 24 hours of "house arrest". Your
situation will be different than Aung San Suu Kyi's because we are also 
asking you to invite people into your home for a portion of your 
"arrest" to educate, advocate, and fundraise.

All you have to do is sign up here on our
webpage<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j%2FDWjvP%2Bl8zNk39v0dbN5p8J0tFJu%2B%2FU>,
and we will send you all the materials you need, including videos you 
can show your guests, informational tools to hand out, invitations to 
send to your friends and family, and much more.

We encourage people to hold House Arrest parties; however, if there are 
other kinds of events you wish to hold, you are more than welcome to 
get creative.

If we all organize together across the country, we will get a great 
deal of attention for Aung San Suu Kyi.  Just as the world rallied to 
demand the release of Nelson Mandela when he was imprisoned in South 
Africa, we must come together for Aung San Suu Kyi.

We are also asking that each event raise between $300 and $1,000 for 
our campaign to press for the freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi.  The best 
way to do this is to ask every single person who attends the party 
portion of your "arrest" to donate between $10 and $100. If you get 15 
people to donate $20 each, you will easily reach $300. All donations 
are tax-deductible.

Please sign up here today.  If only a few people host events at their 
home we won't have much impact - that is why we are aiming to have at 
least 500 events across the world.  That will make this the single 
largest event for Aung San Suu Kyi in history.

Please stand with Aung San Suu Kyi June 13-15th, 2008 (the weekend 
before her birthday).

Sincerely,
Aung Din, Jeremy Woodrum, Jennifer Quigley, and Thelma Young