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Since I recently started working on my flute doubling, this post by Dries Buytaert (of Drupal fame)...

The themes of the this excerpt are: Connections with the war in Iraq. Deluded methods of conflict resolution.

(Click "Read More" for Paul Haller talk...)

[G2:1905 class=g2image_float_left]Projects:
StoneCircles.org is in the process of purchasing a large number of “flip video” cameras which are very discrete, AA battery operated, tape-less cameras whose data can be uploaded directly to a computer and then sent by satellite phone out to the world. The cameras are only about $100 apiece and we need your help to purchase them and the more expensive transmission equipment needed to get the video out of the country...Making sure that the world can witness what is going on within Burma is one of the only means we have of keeping the activities of the government under check and bring power back into the hands of the Burmese people...Click on the “donate now” button and then be sure to check “yes” where it asks if this donation is designated for Burmese video equipment.

Petitions:

• Contact Elected Officials
• http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/uscampaignforburma/pe...
• http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/tf.php?cl_tf_sign=1

Links:

• http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/whatyoucando/getstarted.html
• http://www.badasf.org/
• The Buddhist Peace Fellowship's Burma Action Page: http://bpf.org/html/whats_now/2007/burmaevents.html
• San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
  http://sfinsight.org/burma.html

Read on for past events:

[G2:1907 class=g2image_float_left] (Image from: http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/index.html) The 2008 Beijing Olympics does seem to be mentioned more frequently in the last few days. I was pleased to wake up to this story on NPR's Morning Edition:

China Urged to Use Clout in Myanmar

For the latest: Try this Google News Search

A friend of mine just posted the video from this amazing concert that I attended in September at the JazzSchool in Berkeley, CA.

...read on for personnel...

[G2:1902 class=g2image_float_left]Today I spent my lunch hour doing walking meditation and demonstrating solidarity with the Burmese people. About 100 of us met in Justin Herman Plaza at noon. Spirit Rock Meditation Center provided red robes - the color of the Burmese Monks.

This is a great article on the cultural, political and spiritual ramifications of the political action by Burmese Monks this past week:

What Makes a Monk Mad

More opportunities for political action in San Francisco:

Monday, October 1, noon, Justin Herman Plaza: walking meditation and
walk to United Nations Plaza.
This will be a nonviolent public walk in solidarity with the Burma

[G2:1879 class=g2image_float_left]This weekend I bought a Whisper Room model 4260 used off of Craigslist. A good time to make this purchase is when you are between girlfriends. Girlfriends will invariably tell you that sound isolation booths - especially Whisper Rooms - are ugly. And, well, you have to admit that they have a point.... So I'm patting myself on the back on the timing of score. Perfect size room, great price, the guy even delivered it to me! When the next unsuspecting girlfriend wanders buy, I'm thinking that I can argue that the room is a pre-existing condition. A good idea, in theory at least...

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.

See message below from the organizers, Rebecca Solnit and Marisa Handler, for more details.

Please forward this message widely!

Maia Duerr
Buddhist Peace Fellowship

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