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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

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CONSUME: Writers read, artists go to galleries, reporters watch the news. On September 28th you could have uploaded a photo of yourself wearing a red shirt to Flickr to show your solidarity with the monks in Burma as part of Red Shirt Day for Burma/Birma/ Myanmar. Check out the photo "comments" on this Free Burma photo.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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The US Campaign for Burma is asking for a boycott of the Games: "China is paralyzing UN Security Council action on Burma. points out that the Olympics' start date, August 8, 2008, is the, "the 20th anniversary of the massacre of peaceful democracy activists in Burma." olympics China human rights Tibet Burma Darfur

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

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BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist. For example, I started organizing around Burma last year in solidarity with the profoundly nonviolent uprising in Burma. It was really wonderful.

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Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project

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." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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13 Women Changing the World

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Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. Naomi Natale Founding Artist, One Million Bones. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (February 6, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 5. Favianna 's vibrant posters deal with issues like war, immigration, globalization, and social movements.

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