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Project MajeMASSIVE HUMANITARIAN DISASTER IN BURMACyclone Nargis has inundated Burma's densely populated Irrawaddy Delta, destroying entire towns and villages. Tens of thousands of people have been killed by the storm and as many as a million survivors are homeless. The storm has also destroyed infrastructure in Burma's largest city, Rangoon, its "satellite towns" and other areas. Emergency shortages of drinking water, food and shelter are being suffered and there is an imminent danger of diseases such as cholera. This disaster has been compounded by the regime's deliberate delay of international emergency assistance. The cyclone will have long-ranging effects, as the Delta area was Burma's primary rice growing region. For constantly updated information, see these news sources: BBC News The Irrawaddy Mizzima News US Campaign for Burma (also accepting disaster relief donations) DONATIONS for disaster relief can be made via these organizations: Medical Emergency Relief International (already bringing aid to Delta) Thirst-Aid (water purification is an urgent priority) Global Health Access Program (funding indigenous emergency teams currently providing aid) Avaaz.org (special fund via Burma's Buddhist monks) MercyCorps (experienced disaster relief experts with local partners) Project Maje is an independent information project on Burma's human rights and environmental issues. It was founded by its project director, Edith Mirante, in 1986. Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma's Frontiers, the most recent book by Ms. Mirante (author of Burmese Looking Glass), is published by Orchid Press. In Asia, order online from www.orchidbooks.com. Down the Rat Hole is also available at Powells.com, and can also be requested from your local bookshop or ordered at www.amazon.com. Our latest reports are available online. The most recent document is Desperate Conditions: Update on Malaysia as Burma Refuge, written in March 2008. This report is a follow-up to We Built This City: Workers from Burma at Risk in Malaysia, written in July 2007. Several previous reports are also available in Project Maje's documents section. Also available online, in the September 2006 issue of Guernica Magazine: Dragon Mothers Polish Their Metal Coils OPEN LETTER: An Open Letter signed by over 30 people in the arts who are of Asian background, as a way to show international support for Burma's nonviolent resistance can be viewed at http://www.projectmaje.org/letter.htm. SCOTT BATEMAN: HOW THINGS ARE IN BURMA: October 24, 2007: Scott Bateman, animation artist for Salon.com has a new animated political cartoon about the suppression of free expression in Burma on the Salon.com website, featuring commentary by Edith Mirante:
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