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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