ACT NOW: Send your panties
Here’s what you can do :
1) Clean out your drawers,
• choose some panties,
• Write a message of solidarity on them (for example, « Solidarity with Burma », « Oust the Military Regime! » « Take that, Than Shwe! » …) and/or print the flower-shaped sticker displaying the leaders of the military regime (available on Lanna Action for Burma).
2) Send your package to the representatives of the military junta in Canada :
Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
85 Range Rd, 903
Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 8J6
Not from Canada?
Check this list of Worldwide Burmese Embassies to send to the closest Embassy.
OR if you prefer, send directly to Burma:
Senior General Than Shwe
Chairman, State Peace and Development Council
c/o Ministry of Defence
Naypyitaw, Union of Myanmar
Suggestions regarding mailing your panties:
We have learned that reprensentatives of the military junta at the Burnese Embassy may sometimes return the enveloppe to the sender without opening it. This is a proof that the Campaign is working!
We suggest that you use an alternative Return to sender adress, for example:
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An embassy of a country that is friendly to the military regime in Burma (China, Singapore, India, etc.)
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A journalist, newspaper, radio station (see The Campaign in the Media section for examples).
You can also take a picture of your panties and send the print as a postcard, without having to send the actual panties in an envelope.
3) Share your comments about the campaign below.
After you have shared your comments, an e-mail will be sent to the given address to confirm your signature. Please make sure that your e-mail address is correct or you will not receive this e-mail and your comments will not be published on the website
Confirmed signatories.
Carlos Marcelo Yamakawa
I want to have a panties like as the picked for me.
Hayley Keane (UK)
Celibathon, the global campaign for women (www.celibathon.com)
This is a wonderful idea, and I'll be sharing it in the UK! Women sustain and nurture our societies. They should be protected and empowered, never abused. Let's make a difference together, whenever and however we can!
Rights and Democracy student Network delegation at Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB, Canada)
We collected 270 pairs of panties and thirteen boxers (both real and paper).
I don't know of anything more liberating than sending a bunch of sparkly, feathered, and falling-apart panties to a fancy embassy. Woooo!
bente (montreal/canada)
here you get my used panties ;) peace
Meaghan Hennegan (Montreal, Canada)
PWND!!1!
Celina (Victoria)
Margaret Haugen-Juniper (Canada)
I wrote: 'Justice and human rights NOW!' on my pretty little purple thong.
rsr2rsr7
V.Ramesh Kumar (India)
Wefare Assiciation for Rural Society
Greetings, our lady members will send a doz panties with hand written messege. Good luck
Susan Flannery (USA)
I pledge my panties for solidarity for the suffering women in Burma
Arielle Goldschlager (Canada)
10 pairs of panties sent, each with a lovely message like: "Canadian Women for Burma" and "Peace for Burma Now"
Leslie Donovan (Sydney)
I wrote "Panties are harmless; dictators are not. Human rights now!" on mine.
Carolyn Arbour-Dokuchic (St. Joachim, ON, Canada N0R 1S0)
What a creative response to a terrible situation!
Sandra E (Toronto, CANADA)
Through work and friends we managed to send off more than 20 pairs of undies to the embassy in Ottawa... may our panties bring shame to the regime, and strenght to the women of Burma. Real men don't rape, and women united will never be defeated!!
Marisol Paquin (La Tuque, Canada)
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
-Faith Whittlesey
Mary Sherlock (Canada)
Jennifer Cooly (Prince Rupert/ Canada)
I didn't realize that there was only three colors you could send. So now I'm not sure if you'll use the ones I've sent. I thought black was more appropriate. I might have signed a different name too.. Oh well See ya.
Eleanor Cowan (James Bay, Quebec)
(www.eleanorcowan.ca)
Panting for Peace!
R Brad Scott
Bottom Feeder (SharpMarble.com (for now defunct))
My name is R Brad Scott and I sent in a few of the panties I love to wear in support of this fine cause.
One is zebra print, one has Elmo on them, and one is edible!
Colette Brandenburg (Santa Monica California)
The box
I believe in the power of the box!!!!
Laura Pratt (LaSalle, Ontario, Canada)
Heather E. Roberts-Brown (Cameron, Ontario, Canada)
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony -
H Morgan (USA)
I just sent five pairs of clean old panties.
LINDSEY (Baltimore USA)
United States Public Health Service Officer (www.greenpig.org)
Hope these pants will help push these tyrants over the edge.
Elizabeth Schmahl (Ober-Flörsheim/Germany)
I sent mine off to their Embassy in Berlin today. Little black thong - do your thing!
Lin S. (Victoria, Canada)
Yes!!!
Jo-Lynne Jack (Wellington, New Zealand)
Solidarity with women across the world will bring strength and renewed vigor!!
S. Aung
For Freedom of our Burmese People.
susan von reusner (new york, USA)
My daughter and I pledge our panties with full faith that they forever end the current regime's military domination of Burma / Myanmar.
Tom J. Watson (Perth, Australia)
I am a guy and I wear panties and I hope that my panties will help rid the world of the tyrants in Burma and elsewhere.
Jodi Gulka
May the people of Burma be free from suffering and find happiness and its causes. May Aung San Suu Kyi be freed. May the monks & nuns of Burma practice in freedom. May the persecution of religion in all forms cease immediately in Burma.
Antoni
Art Director
Please, try to change the world with love and respect. We dont have to be agressive, just give them our panties and lets hope that the future will be better. Dont spread unger and hate because it will return to us.
Susan Nakhleh
homemaker
I am for "panties of mass destruction"!
angie
Leehi Yona
Society has come along SUCH a long road! This should not happen in today's world! MY heart is with the women of Burma.
Mary Warren Martz
Power to the panties!
rango
Sara
"No man is better than a woman"
Penelope Gonzales
Abuse is wrong no matter what culture or language!!!
nicola ingram
vancouver school board
support the women and children of Burma
Andy
Free Burma Free Aung San Suu Kyi
Vicki Johnston
We are tired of stupid old men being in charge. You are selfish
cowards.
Jennifer Auten
Stop the brutality and oppression!! I hope my panties do indeed strip the junta of their powers. The abuse has gone on for far too long.
Tamera Ahde
Hafren
May the power of these panties give the women of Burma some aid against the junta,-male chauvinists such as they are.Free Aung San Suu Kyi,so that democracy can become part of Burma, or Myanmar as it is now called.
Lady
NEFAC (www.nefac.net)
Eat my shorts.
Chris Baker
Xyza
May the love and peace overflow to those who are in need, or lack thereof. Keep up the awareness and fight for freedom and justice. God protect us and be with us all who strive for solidarity.
Magdalene
Behold the power of the panties!
Terry Astbury
sent my used panties when the organization began
Shannon
I like that "panties of mass destruction"!!! I can't believe everything that is going on, there are not enough words in the English language to describe how horrible the military regime is their treatment of the people (esp. women) in Burma.
Courtney Hare
Shamini Selvaratnam
Shame on the military junta!
Shirley
Stop the oppression of women! We must stand united as the only way to better the world is through women!
mary Miller
Ellen Pang
Flora
no (no)
Than Shew Myan Myan tay bar say
Dart Ma Daw, kya shone bar say
Sit thar arr lone , Nga Ye kya bar say
Paula
Stop the oppresion of women, give us our right to have free, and democatic elections. More power to the women of Burma
Sammy
Find list of Myanmar Embassies at www.myanmarvisa.com
Liz Harvey-Carter
Whimsical Creations (http://thewhimsicalanthropologist.blogspot.com/)
Take THAT Than Shwe you stupid old man...
Amadew Walt
nwe
get out than shwe immediately!
Aldona Grinius
The hurricane has exposed this regime even more for its inhumanity.Free Aung San Suu Kyi.
A Krupich
Women's Rights are Human Rights. I pray for the women of Myanmar
Lorie Samoisette
Myan-African Charity House
I'll do whatever I can to support the great needs of the Burmese women - they so deserve better. God bless the women of the world.
Lynn Dore
It takes women to get a job done correctly. Women Rule!!!
corliss ward
Cheryl Batten
Batten Holdings
Freedom from persecution!!
Eileen De Santis
Delighted to help "undie"mind this brutal regime. Great idea.
Lorie Downey
Myan-African Charity House
I have visited Burma several times and am fully aware of the difficult lives of these women. They deserve improved lives and human rights so I do support what you are doing for and with this group of woman. May you be blessed with success.
Olivia Mangano
Watch out for panties of mass destruction!
Elana Wright
Rights & Democracy
This campaign can be even more powerful since the cyclone, when the junta was exposed worldwide as a brutal regime that cares more about its power than its people.