Monks Being Captured in Burma

Here are some powerful images from this incredible blog -- http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com/ -- based out of Burma. And I discovered this website -- DEMOCRATIC VOICE OF BURMA -- which has good up to date info on the situation in Burma, much of it harrowing as hell. The soldiers are rounding up monks and other protesters in the middle of the night at the monasteries, so nobody sees them. A Japanese news photographer was shot in the head and killed today by a soldier. At least eight or nine others are known to have been killed today, including monks. And who knows what they do to the monks and others once they have them behind closed doors. I've heard an unsubstantiated rumor that Aung San Suu Kyi has been taken into custody by authorities--this from friends of friends inside Burma via email.

There is a protest in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco tomorrow organized by Rebecca Solnit (one of my writing professors from graduate school) and Marissa Handler. Here's that info:

When: Friday (Sept 28) at 12 noon
Where: the Chinese Consulate, 1450 Laguna Street at Geary in San Francisco
(near Japantown)

Try to wear red (in solidarity with the maroon-robed monks), make signs, prepare to do both sitting and walking meditation.

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