Sign a petition to Presdt Hamid Karzai to save ancient Buddhist site Mes Ayak in Afghanistan from Chinese copper mine -

http://www.change.org/petitions/president-hamid-karzai-prevent-destruction-of-ancient-site-of-mes-aynak-the-environmental-damage-3

NLD patriarch U Win Tin speaks plainly -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/29675

3 Letpadaung Taung copper mine protestors suing "President" Thein Sein for pre-dawn attack with white phosphorus -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/28498

Independent labs outside Burma have established it was white phosphorus, victims are still in burn units in a Thai hospital, "inquiry commission" was clearly just a window-dressing move to placate people and put Daw Suu Kyi in a spot simultaneously - 

so long as the military government remains in power you can be sure there will be no change.  The report is currently collecting dust in some office.

K.M.Kaung

Monks all over Burma and DKBA demonstrating to protest firebomb clampdown on copper mine demonstrators on Nov 29

http://www.rfa.org/burmese/ For official transcripts and English translations, write to burmese@rfa.org DKBA = Democratic Karen Buddhist Association.

In Kyaukpadaung, Upper Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi says she is encouraged by young people's interest in politics

http://www.rfa.org/burmese/ 12-10-2012 news cast TV. She also stressed that naing gnan yay or politics, literally "the nation's business" concerns everyone and everything. Kyaukpadaung is region where the recent copper mine workers' demonstrations were brutally quelled with fire bombs by the junta.

Brutal crackdown on monks and workers/miners protesting Chinese-owned copper mines in central Burma

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/20111 (Foreign) commentators on the Irrawaddy site don't seem to understand there are thousands of monks in Burma, and these are different from the neo-Nazi skin heads who spout racist sentiments in Arakan against the Rohingya.