For Burma/Myanmar

The news out of Burma/Myanmar seems to indicate that the military junta has won the upper hand against the pro-democracy activists who took to the streets in a big way last week.

My friend Alan was in this broken country in July this year and took some beautiful pictures that give us a glimpse into the everyday lives of the people who are caught in a political system that is totally dysfunctional.


While the world waits and its leaders dither on how best to change the situation in Burma/Myanmar, here's a message from Jim Carrey that was released some weeks before the current imbroglio we have witnessed on the streets of Yangon.



And from 2001, this is U2's "Walk On", a song about and dedicated to the country's detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.



"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it." - Aung San Suu Kyi