Posts under ‘Campaigns & Causes’

It’s Blog Action Day today. I’m not going to talk about climate change per se, since I’ve recently been accused of writing ‘too much like a scientist’ (no, not on my blog… never on my blog, I hope) and I can’t really talk about climate change (you know, CO2, atmospheric gases and all that. But [...]

The latest (Draft) Blue Plan has been released! From the IYOR08 blog:
The Draft Blue Plan is a proposal to the Government and people of Singapore from the members and organizations that form “International Year of the Reef (IYOR) 2008 Singapore” – interested members of civil society concerned about the conservation and management of Singapore’s coral [...]

Our parents were out for the night, so my sis and I ‘turned off the lights‘ and tried to do our little bit, having our dinner in the semi-dark dining area (the world out there was still quite brightly-lit) and away from our compts. Having no candles in the house, we used torches when necessary [...]

Dear friends,
After decades of repression under Chinese rule, the Tibetan people’s frustrations have burst onto the streets in protests and riots. With the spotlight of the upcoming Olympic Games now on China, Tibetans are crying out to the world for change.
After decades of repression under Chinese rule, the Tibetan people’s frustrations have burst onto the [...]

A wet day… a wet week, in fact. We were planning on shooting the main Climate Change march this afternoon but it was raining too heavily. I brought my kit along to lunch just in case… and since Bond St was just a few stops away, I hopped onto the Tube and popped out over [...]

Dear Singaporean friends,
The Myanmar generals brutalising their people depend on Singapore — for banking and trading, private hospitals, even luxury Armani clothes. The government has now condemned the military dictatorship. It’s the first step. Now we need not just words, but action. Let’s send Foreign Minister George Yeo an urgent message of support and encouragement: [...]

Dear friends,
Today, our petition to China and the UN Security Council to stop the brutal crackdown on peaceful Burmese protesters is being delivered to the world in a full page ad in the Financial Times worldwide — but the ad was rejected by other newspapers like the South China Morning Post and the Singapore Straits [...]

Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world. For decades the Burmese regime has fought off pressure–imprisoning elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy activists, wiping out thousands of villages, imposing forced labour, creating refugees.
But last Tuesday Buddhist monks and nuns, revered in Burma, began marching and [...]