Another Interesting Article

On the BBC website - thanks Julie!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7517655.stm

Heading for the Grand Union Canal

Well yesterday was a big one. I set off from Newark at just after 9-o-clock after a good nights kip in a room above a very loud disco in the Broadway pub - walking all day is the best cure for insomnia. Thirteen and a half hours and 26 miles later I arrived in The Sugar Loaf in AB Kettleby where I met Sam, Matt and Alex. I've been enjoying their company and hospitality ever since and am about to set off to Melton and then, hopefully on to the  Grand Union Canal by the end of the day. I'm carrying a very fine packed lunch so with luck I'll make good progress.

All the best,

Love Ewen

Interesting Links

A couple of interesting articles on Burma in the Guardian - follow the links!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/jul/17/burma.military.regime

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/07/burma.peterbeaumont

Thanks to Colin Wood for these!

Ewen's Route To London

Saturday 19th - Newark on Trent

Sunday 20th - following minor road from Newark through Hawton, Cotham, Staunton in the Vale, Normanton, East Thorpe turning right before Red Mile onto Grantham Canal. Follow canal to Hose heading for Scalford, destination Melton Mowbray (pies!)

Monday 21st - Following B6047 to Foxton

Tuesday 22nd - Following Grand Union Canal all the way to London!

At present he is well fed and watered.

Petition

I have copied the petition to this page so people can see and sign it, hope it works! Just click on 'comments' at the bottom of the post.


Petition to the UK Government
We the undersigned believe that the anniversary of the 1988 massacre that ended the uprising in Burma that year should not go unmarked by the British government.Twenty years ago the people of Burma, led primarily by students, demonstrated peacefully against their military rulers asking for freedom and democracy. Their struggle continues to this day and conditions within the country are arguably worse than ever. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy remains under house arrest where she has been for over thirteen years.We are concerned that the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, which occurs on the anniversary of the massacre, should not be allowed to completely overshadow this important day. It is being marked with unanimous cross-party support at Edinburgh City Chambers by a gala performance of “The Burma Play” supported by Burma Educational Scholarship Trust, Amnesty Scotland, Unison and the Cooperative Bank.Gordon Brown has, on several occasions, expressed admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi and support for the aims of her party, the National League for Democracy.We believe that the Prime Minister should officially mark the massacre that took place on the 8th of August 1988, and outline how his government is fulfilling its stated commitment to the democracy process in Burma, in a statement released on the anniversary date.
Posted by Ewen at 03:05
Labels: 08/08/08, 08/08/88, Burma, Democracy, Petition

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Just Giving, just reminding!

Remember you can sponsor Ewen and donate money to BEST (Burma Education Scholarship Trust):

www.justgiving.com/barefeetforburma

Child Soldiers in Burma

Please please follow the link below and watch the Reuters film about Child Soldiers in Burma (please be patient with the skateboarding clip beforehand!?):

http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=69872

This link is to the Human Rights Watch website and has more information on child soldiers all over the world.

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/burma/index.htm

This subject is particularly close to my heart as I have directed a play with my Salmagundi Theatre Company (WLYT) that explores these issues:

MONSTERS

It’s 2022…civil war divides us…there’s no place for innocence…

Monsters is set in Livingston in 2022, in the kind of future that we hope will never happen in Scotland, but which is reality for far too many children and young people all over the world.

Stephan’s gang has been hiding out in a disused hall while, up in the Bathgate Hills a civil war rages between the Monster’s Militia and the British Government Army. The war has been fought over the past four years but Stephan and his gang don’t really know anything about why or how it started. Then Roxy finds them with her gang of escaped child soldiers. Roxy (16) has been fighting since she was twelve years old and has finally found her chance to escape. She can’t afford to let Stephan and his gang of innocents get in her way. But the fighting is getting closer and the Monster Army want their soldiers back …


The show Monsters (by Clare Duffy) will be on during the first week of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:

Main Stage at the Roxy Arthouse
Monday 4th - Saturday 9th August
1.25pm (75mins)
It is being supported by Amnesty International and we hope to have a post show discussion.


It is also on at:
Aberdeen International Youth Festival
Arbroath Webster Theatre, Arbroath
Wednesday 30 July 2008
7.30pm

The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Thursday 31 July 2008
7pm
Friday 1 August 2008
3pm
For more information and to book tickets please contact Aberdeen box office on 01224 641122 or online http://www.boxofficeaberdeen.com/

Please do come and support it!