Watch all the 30 videos part of Burma It Can’t Wait campaign on US Campaign for Burma youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/uscampaignforburma

Sign up now for Arrest Yourself 2009!

Here is what we are asking you to do: Pledge to give up 24 hours of your time sometime between now and June 19th in a show of solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma.

For those 24 hours, you will stay at your house (or school, or anywhere you choose) under self-imposed “house arrest”. During your house arrest, invite people to your house or school for a small portion of your “arrest” and hold an educational party about Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma.

We will send you a host packet full of printed materials about Burma that you can use to educate your guests, along with powerful DVD documentaries that you can screen to help people understand the issues and learn more about Suu Kyi and Burma. We will include simple actions that you and your guests can take, such as petitions to sign, and we will even send you Burmese recipes so you can serve a Burmese lunch or dinner if you’d like to.

We are asking that you also use your event as a small fundraiser to help our efforts to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all the people of Burma. It is easy to raise at least $200 — if you invite 10 people, you can ask them to contribute $20 each. Many people can raise much more. Every single donation will be used to help Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma — please click here to see what we’ve accomplished with your donations.

You can even create your own personalized fundraising webpage here – then send the link to friends and family and watch as your thermometer creeps closer and closer to achieving your fundraising goal. All donations through your page will go directly to USCB, but they will be attributed to you and your event.

Many people might like to plan their “arrest” event around June 19th — Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday. You can do it then, or choose any other time before then.

If we organize hundreds of events, we can educate thousands of people about the struggle for human rights in Burma. Just as the world rallied to free Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa in the 1980s, we will help free Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma.

Check out other Arrest Yourself events going on around the world.

Search for an individual’s personalized fundraising page.

Already signed up to host? You can find all of the materials in your host packet in PDF format here, as well as links to online videos that you can show.

SIGN THE PETITION at www.humanrightsactioncenter.org to get this Declaration printed in every passport.

Write your representatives and encourage them to take the necessary steps to free Aung San Suu Kyi, the present, living-day symbol of Human Rights and the rightful leader of Burma. Lastly, print a copy of the Declaration of Human Rights and put it in your wallet.

- 265 new signatures for the Petition to print the UDHR in passports, bringing the total number of signatures up to 829!

- 628 more followers on Twitter – total number of followers: 1074 :) Thank you all for your interest and support, and a billion thanks to Brian Carter for his ‘following’ hard work’ :)

- 151 people became members of the “One Day For Human Rights” Facebook Group, and a total of 306 confirmed that they will take action in promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10

- i have created a One Day for Human Rights FACEBOOK CAUSE http://bit.ly/14tgP

- 15 more people (total of 29) accepted the invitation to join the “One Day for Human Rights” FLICKR Group. Please keep joining and show your creativity inspired by human rights issues! :)

So many more people have posted blog posts on their personal websites already! Please, if you are one of them, post a link in the comments section, or email me at anca at onedayforhumanrights.com to make you a part of this website!

Thank you all so much for your support and help while my hectic times! Please keep promoting the Petition and this Campaign! 4 days left, and we need as many involved as we can!

Love,

Anca

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Please comment and share your ‘link finds’!

Thank you!

Burma: It Can’t Wait
Help us raise a million voice of support for Burma in 30 days.

US Campaign for Burma

Human Rights Internet
An international NGO that focuses on situational alerts regarding human rights.

Artists for Human Rights
Bringing artists together with the common cause of raising awareness of human rights around the world.

Human Rights Watch
An organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.

Human Rights Now!
Worldwide tour of twenty benefit concerts on behalf of Amnesty International that took place over six weeks in 1988.

Witness.org
Uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Translated versions available in several different languages from around the world.

The Nonviolence Web

The Milarepa Organization Actions

Amnesty International

Contact Amnesty International

United Farm Workers
Send letters supporting worker’s rights.

Each of the 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) provides us with a great starting point in discussing human rights issues.

- State your opinion on any of these articles

- Give an example of a case where one of the articles was not respected

- Discus the UDHR overall, and its meaning to you

- Explain your point of view on the importance of the UDHR

- Research the web for human rights abuses, and explain why do you think human rights have been abused

- Explain what you would do in order to have respected the human rights of all people

If you need more inspiration, or need advice on how/what to write, please comment or e-mail us