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Subject: Re: Burma Out!! S Africa  Australia and the noble art of

well done roger, your really raised $250 and people's consciousness for
the cause of free burma and BO. Make it double if you can. Those grunts
have got to give to something more creative in this world then throwing
a ball up and down a field in front of tens of thousands hysterical
human beings interested in watching bodies tear bang and crash and
brutalize each other, sort of like american football gone international
isnt it but without all the wraps and pads? I never was one for rugby,
and the beer, and its perhaps the first rugby article i have ever read
in my life, so you make it worthwhile since its about the burma cause. 

good luck with the rachel and james fundraising too, i hope you are able
to assure they get proper food and care. as for the second game, it will
have to be a wild frenzy without me, ds

Roger Bunn wrote:
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> I once knew a buddhist priest who played rugby for Japan.
> Tall guy, from the north.
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>                                    Saturday
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> Twikenham, the village that became the home of English
> rugby
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> Burma Out! talked to hundreds of S African and Australian
> sports fanz today. In fact the tension at the Rugby World Cup
> semi-finals at Twikenham was amazing,  and what a game!
> 
> I mean, let me describe the scene, for this will go out over
> the burma1 net... 70,000 Australian and S African rugby fanz
> turned up today, 60,000 may have had tickets but the rest
> just turned up.
> 
> BO explained to 1000s of people today how  not only was it
> involved with past sports sanctions on S Africa but also they
> were about to turn their attentions to those who would sanitize
> sports in Australia.   And as the green, black and a non poitical
> gold and yellow predominated this mass peopled scene in the
> narrow streets of west London, home of Rachel Goldwyn,
> presently imprisoned for 7 years hard labour in Burma for
> seeing the plight of karenni refugees in Thailand and singing a
> banned song in the "peace at any price" streets of Rangoon.
> 
> In the  midst of these noisy crowds of internationally friendly
> non Oympic sportpersons,  the BO message rang clear and as
> usual, easily cutting through the multi-tankards of beer.
> 
> Now the game is into extra time, but time is fast  running
> out for the Burmese junta team. (And sadly, the S Africa rugby
> squad  too.)    But what a game.. A game of games huh?
> 
> BO made many new friends today, and it  raised some £150,
> $250, 350 guilders within an hour and a half for the BO cause.
> But more importantly it will be those to whom we talked who
> will carry the BO news and its literature, and sports sanction
> mandate, wherever they go
> 
> (I am told that the rand wil improve  with age ;-) Because yes,
> people also give BO their spare rand,  plenty of it.)
> 
> btw, if anyone want to know exactly which Englishman provided
> the Anti Apartheid Movement with the hundreds of tickets needed
> to  disrupt  S Africa rugby squad meeting with England at
> Twilkenham,  way back in history, please ask us at BO..
> 
> There had to be a losing side.  But the whole shebang
> starts again tomorrow.  On Sunday the 2nd semi-final takes
> place  and guess what?  BO will be there "handing out BO"
> and taking in new friendships and finance.
> 
> It may even send over the odd drop kick for the Generals to
> contemplate as they deal drugs and torture the innocent.
> 
> Amandla and,  Be nice to the roo? One Hanson, one bullet.
> 
> Roger Bunn
> Semi final day 1.
> Twikenham
> 
> Follow the plea by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appreciations
> of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John
> Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  author Alan Clements, Dennis
> Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman
> Maxine Waters,  Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby
> star JPR Williams, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,  S African jazz
> pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students Democratic
> Organisation,  All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian
> Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor.
> The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, and numerous others.
> 
> Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse.
> Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!
> http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm
> 
> Music Industry Human Rights Association
> http://www.mihra.org / policy.office@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Rachel and James http:www.mihra.org/2k/rachel.htm
> Union Action http://www.mihra.org/2k/Union.htm
> 
> Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and anti-racism and
> was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney
> 2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights
> in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording
> / publishing Grand Cartel.
> 
> Major solo work "Piece of Mind". With orchestra, Holland 69. same
> time as Beatles "Abbey Road".   http://onlinetv.com/rogerbunn.html
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