{"id":604,"date":"2009-05-24T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/05\/aung-san-suu-kyi-needs-help.html"},"modified":"2009-05-24T12:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T12:07:19","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-needs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/aung-san-suu-kyi-needs-help.html","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi Needs Your Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cooler ladies on Earth, <a href=\"http:\/\/dassk.org\/\">Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-myanmar22-2009may22,0,999296.story\">has been arrested<\/a> for the umpteenth time, and is allegedly quite ill.<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"5237\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\" contenteditable=\"false\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/999_Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"999_Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/999_Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-thumb-300x190-5237.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"190\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/form>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/free_aung_san_suu_kyi\/?cl=237323021&amp;v=3328\">Avaaz.org is petitioning the United Nations<\/a> for Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s release, and has almost 400,000 signatures so far. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a decent write-up of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gs16E0Y8T8w9Edy1yiDa2nXqxwkwD98CKUIG2\">situation in Burma<\/a> via the A.P.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here&#8217;s Aung San Suu Kyi speaking briefly on nonviolence, an unwavering principle she takes to heart.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j1ZlLd1fnxU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j1ZlLd1fnxU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\">I was sorry not to post this earlier in the week. I received the action alert, but couldn&#8217;t get to it until now. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/free_aung_san_suu_kyi\/?cl=237323021&amp;v=3328\">take action at Avaaz.org<\/a>. Time is short<br \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cooler ladies on Earth, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been arrested for the umpteenth time, and is allegedly quite ill. Avaaz.org is petitioning the United Nations for Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s release, and has almost 400,000 signatures so far. Here&#8217;s a decent write-up of the situation in Burma via the A.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interdependent-activism-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aung San Suu Kyi Needs Your Help - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/aung-san-suu-kyi-needs-help.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aung San Suu Kyi Needs Your Help - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the cooler ladies on Earth, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been arrested for the umpteenth time, and is allegedly quite ill. 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