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Celebrity
Voices For Burma: 30 Days For A Million Voices
Monday, May 5th,
2008
The crisis in Burma has changed.
A cyclone hit Burma, the most devastating cyclone in Asia since that in
Bangladesh in 1991, which killed 143,000 people. At least 10,000
have been declared dead in this current disaster, and Myanmar officials
say the death toll will grow much higher. While Laura Bush
and the U.S. government are asking Myanmar to allow US disaster teams to
enter the area, the U.S. Campaign for Burma is taking its own form of
action. Its campaign, "Burma: It Can't Wait," has
celebrities Will Ferrell, Jennifer
Aniston, Woody Harrelson, Jason
Biggs, Jenny Mollen, Sarah
Silverman, Julie Benz, and
Eddie Izzard (so far...its only Day 6!) asking for
your help in getting 1 million people signed up in 30 days.
Signing
up means just that: signing up. Putting in your name and
e-mail address...that's all you have to do to add your voice to those who
stand in support of the Burmese people during this tragedy. You
don't need to donate or buy anything (though you may, if you can afford
to).
Sadly, it isn't just the natural disaster that needs attention
in Burma: human rights are in peril, as well. Aung San Suu Kyi
is the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient (now that AP
photographer Bilal Hussein has been freed from detainment in Iraq).
Called "Burma's Nelson Mandela," Suu Kyi won 82% of the seats in Burma's
democratic election, but the Burmese military refused to honor the results
and has had Suu Kyi jailed for the last 12 years.
 Add your name to the voices for Burma. It
can't wait.
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