There is a crisis going on in Myanmar right now. You must have read about it on the news. Peaceful protesters, consisting largely of monks, have taken to the streets to stand against the military dictatorship and actively oppose the ruling junta who refuse to let the country become a democracy.

Myanmar is very close to where I live and I have been trying without success to get myself a flight there for the weekend (I’m a journalist, remember). Why I am writing this is because bloggers around the world have been passing on this message, which looks to have originated from Norway:

In support of our incredibly brave friends in Burma: May all the people around the world wear a red shirt on Friday, September 28.

I’m not saying you should wear a red shirt tomorrow, but I’m saying that on the other side of the world, unarmed people are being beaten to death, foreign media workers are being shot to death, and there are tens of thousands of people standing up for what they believe in.

As bloggers I think we have a duty to at least acknowledge this because the international community has been slow to even consider intervening in what is on the verge of becoming a massacre of innocent people.

While you’re going about making money online or doing whatever you do, spare a thought for the people in Myanmar tomorrow who have more important things to worry about than Paypal.

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