This is the body of a *monk* found in a creek in Burma. The photos were on MoeMaKa Media, a blog covering the demonstrations.
This is a government that kills not only its own people, but also its religious leaders.
I have not put up other disturbing photographs from the crackdown, like one of a [...]

About 500 people, including 11 monks, gathered for a vigil in Monterey Park in L.A. County today to show their support of the Burmese uprising. The monks leading the service spoke about the atrocities being commited by the Burmese junta on their own people this past week. They mentioned the rumors that the junta has [...]

Why? Because it’s Saturday and you don’t have to drink coffee today! Because it was Bill Murray’s birthday last week. Because in the right hands mere sight gags can still be funny! Because you can still feel proud of a country that’s got musicians and comedians and directors who can get together and make crazy [...]

Life under the Burmese junta: Looking from the inside with outside eyes. A photo journal.

The Burmese junta cut off all internal access to the Internet on Friday morning as its crackdown on the demonstrations continues. The government has not allowed foreign correspondents into the country, so journalists have relied on the people inside Burma to smuggle out information, photos and videos. Their stories— mostly sent out by email— have [...]

UPDATE: Mychal Bell was released on $45,000 bail this afternoon.
The Jena Six controversy continued today when a Louisiana prosecutor confirmed he would no longer seek an adult trial for Mychal Bell, a black teenager who once faced an attempted murder charge in the beating of a white classmate.
Bell has been in jail since December 2006, [...]

It was August 27, 2004, the Friday night before the Republican National Convention was coming to New York City. I was dating Danny and he liked bikes, so I joined him on the monthly Critical Mass bike ride around Manhattan.
Later, as the officer put on the plastic-flexi cuffs, I shouted, “What are you doing? This [...]

Pushing Off
Dissent is at the heart of democracy. But I never want to be cuffed, starved, intimidated by the cops again.

It was so crazy-interesting, the debate you missed last night. War! Underage drinking! A rose dominatrix suit!

The Burmese junta continues to order troops to beat up monks and protesters as it cracks down on the mass demonstrations in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the regime). Reports coming out of Burma say that troops attacked people at a monastery in Rangoon Thursday morning and then arrested about 100 monks and laymen. An American [...]