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Human Rights in Burma: Take Action Today

Posted December 14th, 2007 by PhilanthropicTr...

in Civic, Education, Health, International. Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Congressional Gold Medal, Freedom, Human Rights, Myanmar, peace, Philanthropic Travel.

US Campaign for Burma

We are asking for your help in drawing more attention to 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Prisoner of Conscience Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma's democracy movement who has increasingly become a hero to people around the world. Often called "Burma's Gandhi" or "Burma's Nelson Mandela ", Aung San Suu Kyi has been nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal -the most prestigious award given by the US government. Some of the world's most prominent leaders in governments, human rights, and the arts have won the award, including Mother Theresa, Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, his Holiness the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert Frost, and Elie Wiesel.

Here is how it works:
Legislation bestowing a Congressional Gold Medal upon a recipient must be co-sponsored by two-thirds of the membership of both the House of Representatives and the Senate before their respective committees will consider it. The process for her to win this award involves democracy. That's why we need your help!

Congressmen Joseph Crowley (D-NY) and Donald Manzullo (R-IL) have introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives to honor Aung San Suu Kyi with the award. To help give them your support, please call your members of the US House of Representatives today and urge them to co-sponsor the bill. This award will generate major international attention on Aung San Suu Kyi, and further increase global resolve for her necessary and immediate unconditional release.

TAKE ACTION NOW

Find Your Representative:
- Go to http://www.house.gov and in the upper left hand corner plug in your zip code. That should bring up the contact number for your Representative's office in DC

What to say:
- Call in and ask to talk to the foreign affairs staffer. The person who initially answers the phone is not the person who makes decisions.

- Tell the staffer that you want your Representative to co-sponsor HR 4286, the bill that will award Aung San Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal.

- Let him/her know the importance of Aung San Suu Kyi and the cause of Burma is to you.

- Call as often to ensure that your Representative co-sponsors.

- If the staffer is not there leave a voicemail saying what you want and ask them to call you back. (You don't have to wait to have them call you back, you can call them again)

Learn More:
Exquisite Safaris has suspended travel to Burma
Freedom for Burma: Myanmar no more.
Burma: Hopes Burn Brightly
Burma: Mystic Ball and the Sport of Chinlone
Philanthropic Travelers provide clean water in Burma