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Jun 26, 2009

People Power For Freeing Burma Shareholder Power! Or the almighty Dollar Power!

So, I ask again, is there nothing you or I can do?

Yes, there is.

Find out if any of the Corporations in which you own shares does business with Burma. Let me know if you find this connection and, together, we’ll make sure the world knows about it. That will be start of a campaign to mobilize shareholders around the world.

If you feel strongly on this subject and support the strategy I’ve suggested and let’s see how many follow us. The Free Burma movement has adopted an old Ethiopian proverb which seems very appropriate:
:

“When spiders unite they can tie down a lion!”

We could paraphrase this to our rallying cry:

“When shareholders unite they can depose dictators!”

Having read this, I hope the answer to the question I posed at the beginning is “yes”. Please discuss this with your friends, tell them about this, for dumping all these company shares you may own.


Use your Shareholder Power. You have it in your own hands to depose Dictators to

help free Burma



Thank you on behalf of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the courageous members of her party, the National League for Democracy, and the peoples of every ethnic group in Burma.

Global forces shape Orange County’s apparel industry.

Ron Jon Surfwear at The Block in Orange brims with thousands of pants, shorts and shirts, including a blue hooded sweatshirt with the logo of Irvine-based Gotcha stitched across the chest. Along with washing instructions, the label says: “Made in Myanmar.” Myanmar has one of the world’s most questionable human-rights records, but the drive to produce low-cost clothing has compelled some Orange County apparel makers to do business there and elsewhere overseas. “It becomes a numbers game,” said Steve Gould, who has helped arrange overseas manufacturing for such local firms as Gotcha, Quiksilver and Pacific Sunwear.

“People seem happy,” Gotcha surfwear Chairman Marvin Winkler said of the workers he has seen overseas. “They have their standards, and we have ours.”

So there it is. “People seem happy, They have their standards, and we have ours.” This must be the the ultimate in dismissive remarks by an industrialist who does not care what happens to folk as long as the bottom line of his business remains healthy.

Here is how it works with any Company that is giving to Junta or making Blood Money in Burma. See how it is done?

Sample Remember this?

WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS

WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON--

I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil
.

BOY COT These COMPANIES And Watch Gas Prices Fall/ONT>


These companies import Middle Eastern oil :

Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels

Citgo.......from South America , from a Dictator who hates Americans


If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now over $90 a barrel and heading to $100.00/)

Here are some large companies that
do not import Middle Eastern oil:


Sunoco................0 barrels
Conoco................0 barrels
Sinclair.................0 barrels
BP
/ Phillips.........0 barrels
Hess.....................0 barrels
ARC0....................0 barrels


All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importig.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.

Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I'm sending this note to about thirty people .
If each of you s end it to at least ten more
(30 x 10 = 300)... and


those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) . and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people,

we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!!


If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

I f it goes one level further, you guessed it .... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!



Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would all that take?


If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next eight days !

At Twitter:
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Dirty List: http://bit.ly/mdERw But one by one each day so you can see them better!


Who is on the Clean List of Business that has nothing to do with Burma! http://bit.ly/UbMVs

Look what Junta were killing and raping for! 8:45 PM

KNU Headquarters Overrun: Now What?
 After a long offensive, the Burmese army and its ceasefire militia, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), has overrun the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Brigade 7 headquarters.

The question now is: What’s next?


Karen sources and analysts said the fighting will continue as the joint Burmese army and DKBA troops focus their attacks toward the KNLA Brigade 6 area.

Analysts said powerful business interests are supporting the offensive. (Graphic:
The Irrawaddy)
The Burmese regime’s goal is to control all of central Karen State, where the Karen National Union’s KNLA Brigade 7 and 6 are now located, in order to dominate the business and border trade activity with Thailand, said one DKBA businessman who asked for anonymity.

 
Once dominated, many industries, companies and infrastructure will be improved and supported by the Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, said the businessman.

 Important activities will include logging and mining natural resources, including zinc, he said.

He said the Burmese authorities and DKBA troops will construct roads to connect between army headquarters in Myaing Gyi Ngu and border areas.


Once the clashes end, the relationship between the DKBA and local Thai authorities and businessmen in Mae Sot will expand when compared to the past, businessmen said.


During the recent fighting, a KNU leader said two DKBA leaders were spotted in a car traveling with Thai police near the border where Karen refugees have sought shelter in Tha Song Yang District in Tak Province.

Analysts also said the situation will be more dangerous for the KNU and Burmese opposition groups in exile when the border area is controlled by DKBA troops.


Maj Hla Ngwe, the joint secretary (1) of the KNU, said the loss of KNLA Brigade 7 headquarters could affect the work of Burmese opposition organizations based in Mae Sot.


“The opposition movement will be limited. They might not launch campaigns as they did before,” said Hla Ngwe.


Border sources also say more assassinations could be expected in the border area, where many Burmese and ethnic opposition groups are based.


In February 2008, the KNU’s late general secretary, Mahn Sha, was gun down by two DKBA members at his home near the center of Mae Sot.


Many sources claimed the assassination also involved Thai border police.

Border sources said that DKBA members will have easy access to Mae Sot once the relationship between the DKBA and Thai border authorities is established.


A sign of the evolving transition in the power center, said the businessman, is that DKBA soldiers are now receiving medical care in Mae Sot.  What’s happening is “very obvious,” he said.


The DKBA plans to expand its troops from 6,000 to 9,000 in preparation for its transformation to become a border guard force under the Burmese army. The  DKBA split from it mother organization, the KNU, and signed a ceasefire agreement with the Burmese regime in 1995.


By SAW YAN NAING Thursday, June 25, 2009 at Irrawaddy

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