OK ladies.. get your knickers in an envelope and send them over to the Burmese Embassy in Ottawa to protest the actions of the country's military regime.
The Panties for Peace! campaign is basically aimed to play on the military junta's superstitious fear that contact with a woman's undergarment will rob them of their power,” organiser Mika Levesque of the Rights & Democracy Student Network told IANS.
She said, “We appeal to every Canadian woman to clean up her drawer, choose one piece of panties, glue a picture of the military rulers on it or scribble some slogan or message for the junta and then register it with us before sending it to the Myanmar embassy in Ottawa. Registering with us will help us to keep track of how many panties have been sent to the embassy.”
Levesque added, “Like all other cultures, there was a superstitious fear of female undergarments in Myanmar. Its military junta fears that any contact with panties will spell disaster for them. So ours is a non-violent method to force change in Myanmar.”
To get involved...
1) Find a pair you wish to send and write a message on them (for example: «Free Burma»
and/ or print and stick the photos of the military dictators on them from this website
2) You can post, deliver or fling your panties at the closest Burmese Embassy any day from today. Send early, send often!
The one closest to Montreal is:
Ambassade du Myanmar
85 Range Rd, 903
Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 8J6
3) Register your panties on the site www.ptitesculottespourlapaix.ca so they'll know how many pairs have been sent
The results of this campaign will be revealed August 8th 2008, the 20th anniversary of the uprising of 8-8-88
For more information on the Panties for Peace campaign, check out this article, the official website (in French) and this website (in English)
May 28, 2008
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