Every day brings me closer to Asia, and my anticipation is finally outshining my anxieties. That being said I am still wary of my lack of knowledge. The last few days have found me cramming facts and reading personal histories like an undergrad who just realized that there’s going to be a test. While picking up statistics from the CIA World Fact Book (be careful, the spooks have the wrong city listed as the current capital), and checking information from wikipedia against a friend’s experience based expertise, I came across a quick mention of Burma in the San Francisco Chronicle.
It would seem the Lanna Action for Burma Committee has come up with an interesting way to protest against the SPDC: The Panty Power Campaign. It is exactly what it sounds like, a global call for underwear action. Women all over the world are encouraged to send their undergarments to Burmese Embassies. The reasoning behind the seemingly prankish protest is that the junta leaders are incredibly superstitious, and believe that when a man touches a woman’s unmentionables he loses his power. For those of you looking to get rid of some intimate things, let the dictatorship know what you think of the regime through the use of disapproving panty packages.