I've posted often on the situation in Burma. Child soldiers, sexual violence, burning of villages, kidnapping, political prisoners...a serious lack of human rights.
I recently found this website, Students for Burma. The site looks a little old, but I love the idea they have on their about having a day at your school where you get many people to wear red, in solidarity with the Burmese monks.
It looks like they have a lot of great reasources that could make this something that you could accomplish at your school. Although the big protests of the Saffron Revolution have ended, the reason for those protests have not. It is important to make Burma a very relevant and big issue in our world.
If you were looking to hold an event like the Red Day and would like help planning, I highly reccomend STAND as a reasource. They have great advice on how to publicize, how to energize and get people excited, and are really just there to help you make a difference!
An AWESOME new movie is showing soon in locations all around the country. Burma VJ, a movie that shows the Saffron Revolution from the points of Video Journalists ("VJ"s), a job title that is both essential and dangerous in Burma. Essential because they are the ones who are getting this footage, dangerous because they risk their lives to tell the story.
