Since September 19, thousands of Burmese protesters have poured on to the streets of Rangoon to demand freedom from military rule. On September 26, the Burmese military government responded with violence. Thousands of protestors have since been seized and taken away. Yesterday, campaigners in 30 cities around the world showed solidarity by organizing local demonstrations […]
Entries Tagged as 'advocacy'
Global rallies put pressure on Burma
October 7th, 2007
Tags: citizen participation · YouTube · advocacy
Google Earth – a platform for social awareness
April 5th, 2007
New Paradigm colleague Paul Artiuch just tipped me off about this amazing new app on Google Earth. Google has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to create awareness of the atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. Darfur, which has been labeled by the U.S. as the first genocide of the century, […]