links for 2007-09-29
Written on September 29, 2007
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Annotated map of Burma, listing fall 2007 protests with arrest information (via Ethanz)
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Telegraph runs a selection of liveblogging from Burma
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…[there is] little information about the prevalence of mobiles in the country and ability to MMS footage out of the country, but it appears that the Internet is only inconsistently filtered…”
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“They can either come down hard on the Buddhist monks leading the protests — and risk turning pockets of dissent into nationwide outrage as reports and grainy mobile phone images of revered, maroon-robed men and boys being beaten up leak out”
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People inside Burma have been e-mailing the BBC News website and talking to the BBC Burmese Service about the growing unrest
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Burma’s bloggers are using the internet to beat censorship, and tell the world what is happening under the military junta’s veil of secrecy
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Source of stencil images for worldwide campaign in support of Burma’s marching monks.
E-mail a photo of your stenciled or printed monks and it will appear here -
“I’ve created a source for stencil images of marching monks to support the ‘Saffron Revolution’ in Burma, at the suggestion of a friend who has been living on the Thai-Burma border with student rebels for many years. I made it simple so it’s easy to use.”
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Burma-related group on Facebook (log-in required)
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..a number of influential Chinese blogger…going against all known truths regarding The Chinese Mind as of Sept. 17, 2007 with some throwing their weight squarely behind the Saffron Revolution
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“Citizen journalism has arrived in Burma. And, while the risks to those who courageously capture the deplorable realities of life today in Burma are great, the potential rewards to the country as a whole are greater”
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A search on Facebook for “Burma monks” shows 40 groups wanting to support these protesters
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citizen reporting about Burma
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The Burmese protests, led by Buddhist monks and disseminated worldwide by Web Video, mark the first protest where the medium unquestionably has had a major impact on a political mass revolt
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The street protests in Myanmar turned deadly Wednesday when at least one person was killed by security forces, according to news and witness accounts trickling out of the closed-off country
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Secret networks of dissident citizen reporters operating beneath the noses of government spies in army-ruled Myanmar are giving the world unprecedented glimpses of the biggest anti-junta protests in two decades
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International reaction to the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests ranges from support of the protestors through neutrality to support of the State Peace and Development Council, the ruling junta
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Burmese protests on Wikipedia (in progress)
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pics on BBC
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“…when the dust finally clears on Myanmar’s popular protests, depending on the eventual outcome, the information-driven movement could one day be known as Myanmar’s Glite revolution”
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one of the most striking things about the monk-led uprising has been the volume of information that has been escaping about the usually secretive regime’s activities
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As Burmese soldiers fire bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-government protests in Rangoon, the military rulers have taken the offensive in the battle to control the flow of information in the country
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Bloggers, aided by an army of civilian journalists sending videos and photographs by mobile phone are letting the world know what is going on inside Burma, as the monks continue their protests against the military regime
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Journalists hoping to find authentic, first hand accounts, photos and video content being posted from inside Burma are likely to face a number of challenges…
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Democracy of Internet threatens some nations. In Burma, Net access can be a path to prison. But some take the risk (an article from 1997!!!)
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The case of Burma presents an interesting, compelling argument for citizen journalism - as an immediate phenomenon in a place with heavy media control, the citizen journalists are the information providers making it through the sieve of the state.
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The revolution will be YouTubed. The Burmese uprising is defining citizen journalism in Asia as the military junta face the biggest challenge to their rule in two decades
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With foreign journalists locked out of the country by Burma’s military government, this dispatch was written by TIME staff based on eyewitness reports.
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People described invariably as “tech-savvy” university students and youth have been taking pictures and video with cellphones and digital cameras, and squirreling them outside the country via the Internet.
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Since the protests, the regime has cut off the mobile phones of prominent pro-democracy supporters and of some journalists representing foreign media.
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This is a call for a Freedom of Expression league table for Myspace, Youtube and other Web 2.0 spaces
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Money sent via this underground system helps finance the purchase of essential goods for Burma’s population, bypassing import restrictions intended to conserve foreign exchange for the junta’s priority items, such as military hardware.
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Burma’s military regime is suspected of cutting public internet access today to prevent news and images of its violent repression of pro-democracy protests leaking out.
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“The more they try to suppress information, the more will come out.”
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…the opposition was fighting back with satellite telephones, which can bypass censors, firewalls and other restrictions
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They have even used the social networking site Facebook or hidden news in e-greetings cards and networks of reporters for dissident news organisations have used the Internet to get stories and pictures out
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But with cyber-dissidents feeding the international media, the military junta “can’t lie with their media,” Mr. Htike said. “Everybody can clearly see … everybody knows who is doing right and who is doing wrong.”
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more than 4,000 people have pledged their support for Red Shirt for Burma with an impressive near-35,000 people joining the Facebook group that is helping to promote the event
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an analysis of satellite images shows chilling scenes of bare ground where villages once stood, new settlements near military camps, and swelling refugee camps just across the border, in Thailand
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Free Burma!
International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October
International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words „Free Burma!“.
http://www.free-burma.org
September 30, 2007 @ 11:26 pm