Saffron Revolution Commemoration Tools and Materials

Tools

• Press Release Sample, please feel free to amend quotes and adapt to your country. Click here to download in Word and PDF.

• Design for placards, T-shirts, etc. Click here to download

Guide to Saffron Revolution Related Materials

Books:

1. Everything is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma (alternate title: No Bad News for the King) The Saffron Revolution, Naypyidaw, and Cyclone Nargis
By Emma Larkin
Available from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk

2. Come Rain or Shine: A Personal Account of Burma, the 2007 Uprising, and Cyclone Nargis
By Joseph Ball
Available from Burma Center Prague

Reports:

1. Crackdown
Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma
By Human Rights Watch

2. The Resistance of the Monks
Buddhism and Activism in Burma
By Human Rights Watch 2009

3. Bullets in the Alms Bowl
An analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution
By National Coalition Government of the union of Burma

4. Action, Words, and Prayers: Chin Solidarity for the Protests in Burma
By Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)

5. Burma/Myanmar: After the Crackdown
Asia Report N°144 – 31 January 2008

6. Overturning the alms bowl: the price of survival and the consequences for political Legitimacy in Burma
Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 298-314, September 2008

7. Burma: A Land Where Buddhist Monks Are Disrobed and Detained in Dungeons
By Assistance Association for Political Prisoners

Documentary Films and News Features:

• Extensive video gallery on the US Campaign for Burma website
• Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (DVD with special features available from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk)
• After the Uprising
• Monks on the Frontline
• Al-Jazeera’s 101 East: Myanmar Protests
• A Prayer for Democracy
• In the Middle of the Bridge (DVD available from The Best Friend)
• Burma Underground (DVD available from The Best Friend)