One of my all-time heroes, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy leader of Burma, is still under house arrest in Rangoon where the military government is shooting at the marching monks parading past her house. A significant, scary number of those soldiers and monks are teenagers, one of the reasons I'm writing The Bamboo People. Listen to this quote from one of this amazing lady's speeches:
It is not the prerogative of men alone to bring light to the world: women with their capacity for compassion and self-sacrifice, their courage and perseverance, have done much to dissipate the darkness of intolerance and hate, suffering and despair.
Free Burma! Let the Lady bring the light. Here's what we can do. Listen to Jim Carrey explain why: