[BNM] [OT] Burma

[Nick Taylor]

Revolutions are often follow the pattern of a groundswell of popular 
feeling that builds, and then breaks the surface around a single event, 
which is then built into a cause-celebre/foundation myth.

By signing petitions - you're probably doing fuck all for Burma 
directly, but you're contributing to the groundswell... and the way that 
this happens is that by offering something for people "to do" which 
costs them absolutely nothing, you're driving the narrowest of wedges 
through the door... creating a kind of slippery-slope strategic initiative.

So it costs nothing, it does nothing... but all future conversations 
start with the core belief that what is going on is a)wrong and b) 
changeable. If you make it too tough for people to help, then what you 
get instead is rationalisations for why things are the way they are... 
and b) above disappears.

It's a small (and early) part of a larger process - it's not nothing though.





> I know the petition is not going to do much, but it is the very least we can
> do.
> 
> If 1 million people signed it, it would show the government that the people
> are very concerned about this, and don't forget there may be a general
> election coming up soon.
> 
> Better doing a very small little bit than being apathetic ??????
> 
> Dave