Hi, I've updated this list now, thanks to everyone who gave me feedback!

Below are the resources we have compiled. They should help you keep up to date with news as it happens.

Feel free to add your own.)

Resources:

*WEBSITE*
Burma Campaign UK (in need of funding if you can help):
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/

US Campaign for Burma:
http://www.uscampaignforburma.org
You can contact them directly at- thelma@uscampaignforburma.org
I'm starting a blog to keep people updated on news inside. My boss Aung Din works hard gathering information from eyewitnesses inside and from other groups - for English updates- theburmacampaign.wordpress.com

Open Society Institute's Burma Project:
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/bpsai

Human Rights Watch, Burma:
http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=burma

Free Burma Rangers:
http://www.freeburmarangers.org/

The Irrawaddy:
http://www.irrawaddy.org/

Canadian Friends of Burma:
http://www.cfob.org/

Voices of Burma
http://www.voicesforburma.org.

Democratic Voice of Burma:
http://www.dvb.no/

Aung San Suu Kyi's Pages:
http://www.dassk.com/

National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (government-in-exile) website:
http://www.ncgub.net/

Alstean www.altsean.org

Burmese language news (courtesy of Nay Shun Oo):
http://burmese.dvb.no/
http://myochitmyanmar.blogspot.com/
http://mmedwatch.blogspot.com/
http://www.niknayman.blogspot.com/
http://www.myitzima.co.cc/
http://kadaung.blogspot.com/
http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/
http://hittaing.org/
http://khitpyaing.org/
http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com/
http://myatlone.blogspot.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/
http://www.rfa.org/burmese/
http://redo8888.com/
http://tharkinwe.blogspot.com
http://publicenemies.blogspot.com/
http://www.narinjara.com/burmese.ASP
http://www.burmatoday.net/
http://www.yoma3.org/
http://thanshwe-hunter.blogspot.com/
http://yekyawaung.blogspot.com/
http://phyuphyuthin.blogspot.com/
http://maydar-wii.blogspot.com/
http://maynyane.blogspot.com/
http://shwebothar.blogspot.com/ (English)
http://htoomyat.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post_1673.html
http://oppositeye.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/09/burma_protests_friday.html (change day in the address)
http://www.mizzima.com/MizzimaNews/News/2007/Sep/Demon-28-Sep-%202007.html
http://burmanews.cbox.ws/
http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com/
http://myochitmyanmar.blogspot.com/
http://burmamyanmargenocide.blogspot.com/

*BOOKS*
Turmoil in Burma, by David Steinberg (generally cautious about the prospects for democracy, but very knowledgeable. I know him personally to really dislike the government)

River of Lost Footsteps, by Thant Myint-U (a general history of Burma, starting from the beginning)

Burma: Curse of Independence, by Shelby Tucker (about the ethnic minority groups and their armed conflicts)

Land of Green Ghosts, by Pascal Khoo Thwe (a great account by a refugee and dissident)

Perfect Hostage, by Justin Wintle (about Aung San Suu Kyi)

Enemies of the State, by Mary Callahan (the definitive work on the Burmese army in the 1950s)

Living Silence, by Christina Fink (about daily life in Burma)

And, of course, the books by Aung San Suu Kyi herself, including "Freedom from Fear" and "Letters from Burma"

"Piano Tuner" is a recent novel about colonial Burma.

"Land of Green Ghosts" is one of the most moving accounts and reads like a novel, so if you prefer good writing that's got the added benefit of being true.

George Orwell wrote about colonial Burma (based on his experiences) in "Burmese Days"

"Finding George Orwell in Burma" by Emma Larkin isn't a novel but tracks Orwell's experiences and literary inspirations in Burma. It's well written and has plenty of trivia for literature lovers.

Also, for a comprehensive booklist on Burma (Christina Fink's book is included) - see this link:
http://www.voicesforburma.org/Fun/book-list-1

*Other reports*
The actual full 43-page report (pdf file) using the Satellite images as evidence of atrocities committed by the Junta in Eastern Burma:
http://www.eurekalert.org/images/release_graphics/pdf/burmareport_24sept2007_press.pdf

Link to a report by the International Federation for Human rights on the impact of TOTAL's activities in Burma on the Human Rights situation (TOTAL is a French Oil and Gas company and is one of the biggest investors in Burma, together with the American oil company Chevron).
http://www.fidh.org/rapports/total.htm (in French)

The same report translated into English (badly) through Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.fidh.org/rapports/total.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.fidh.org/rapports/total.htm%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3D27

A link to a report on the Burmese Junta-led Repression, discrimination and ethnic cleansing in the Arakan region, by the International Federation for Human Rights:
http://www.fidh.org/asie/rapport/2000pdf/angl/arakbirm.pdf

ERI feature story:
http://www.earthrights.org/burmafeature/eri_calls_on_oil_and_gas_industry_to_help_stop_violence_in_burma.html

Supply & Command - A Report on the impacts of the Shwe Project:
http://shwe.org/media-releases/publications/file/SUPPLYANDCOMMAND.pdf

*VIDEOS*
I've compiled 3 playlists of YouTube videos about Burma. They are of course far from comprehensive, but they're intended to spread around to people who would like to learn more about Burma and the issues facing the Burmese right now. I will try to keep updating them, but it's pretty hard to keep up with all the new ones. If anyone finds any glaring omissions or new videos that should be added, please send me the urls, and I will update.

1. Background, history and major issues in Burma:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C87F905A075F4958

2. The current situation in Burma:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FBBBF556A0FB63C2

3. Burmese life - place, culture & traditions:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=83B84E9C691A7546


To keep the background/history playlist reasonably bite-sized, I left out a few documentaries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXDEaAz96Es (older BBC Documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LxlsDssjoc (Dealing With the Devil)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8IHt2hEag (The Fall of Manerplaw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpCZGC9XzWg (Khun Sa - Opium Warlord)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBnrZhFiuE (Burma student power pt. 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60b6hqtXZxQ (Burma student power pt. 2)

Many of the videos in these playlists came from the following YouTubers - for those of you who would like to see even more:

http://www.youtube.com/user/maxandbert (beautiful videos of Karen life)
http://www.youtube.com/user/journeyman15 (news and eyewitness videos)
http://www.youtube.com/user/maungde (Thandar Shwe wedding)
http://www.youtube.com/user/journeymanpictures (many great documentaries)
http://www.youtube.com/user/ehnadoh (all about atrocities against Karen)
http://www.youtube.com/user/zawmyolwin227 (many videos of the protests)
http://www.youtube.com/user/burmadigest (many videos of the protests)
http://www.youtube.com/user/peace4burma (Burma documentaries)
http://www.youtube.com/user/uscampaignforburma (US celebrities speak out)
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnson096 (news photo slideshows with audio)
http://www.youtube.com/user/journeyman15 (many news videos about Burma)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Wagaung (videos of Burmese life & culture)
http://www.youtube.com/user/negarman (Burmese songs, dance, kickboxing)
http://www.youtube.com/user/burmariders (Biking through Burma)

*OTHER VIDEOS*

*Burma's Secret War, BBC Dispatches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YVdpQHdqo

Inside the secret city - Burma - by Journeyman pictures - on Burma's new capital city built by the Junta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGrPJvVEG8M

*Generals without a Cause - Burma - by Journeyman pictures - On the Junta's stronghold on business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kanvnAfgWU

* Black Friday Massacre - Burma- by Journeyman pictures - What really happened the night that Aung Sang Suu Kyi was arrested? Did the military try to kill her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MUbWD29-GM

* Burma: Student Power - by Journeyman pictures - on the Student-led democratic resistance in Burma
Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBnrZhFiuE
Part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60b6hqtXZxQ

* Beyond Rangoon - Burma - by Journeyman pictures - On the military Junta's repression of the democracy movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGR0STb-ztw

*The Fall of Manerplaw - Burma - by Journeyman pictures - on the Burmese military onslaught against the Karen minority rebellion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8IHt2hEag

* Dealing with the Devil - Burma - by Journeyman pictures - Burma's military junta are on the verge of signing a peace deal with the ethnic Karen which will leave Aung Sang Suu Kyi increasingly isolated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LxlsDssjoc

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=253734287578732261&hl=en-CA

Great job Jhonny!
Thank you very much.

Here is an RSS feed I just made which aggregates ALL english language news and blog feeds mentionned above, including world news items about Burma through google.news:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=uPRLgtZ13BGQma4kmLokhQ&_render=rss

this is a link to a google news feed for all articles in the mainstream media about Burma (excluding Burma Blogs and campaign sites), sorted by latest news:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Burma+OR+Burmese+OR+Myanmar+OR+%22Aung+san+su+kyi%22+OR+%22Than+Shwe%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n

Hey everyone

I noticed a typo on John's great update.

There is a Voices of Burma - which has a facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2241026779. They support Burmese artists on the Thai/Burma border.

There is Voices for Burma - who are involved in the Burmese tourism debate. www.voicesforburma.org

this ain't bad by the way!
http://community.livejournal.com/for_burma

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n03/than01_.html
Great backgrounder on the country, as well as analyis of different policies towards the country/ future scenarios.

That's super Florent! I'm impressed and will look into this Yahoo pipe thing.

I took your feed to SpringWidgets and made one that anyone can put on their Webpage, blog, MySpace profile, Google start page, etc. and even FaceBook apparently (though I haven't figured out how yet on FB).

Just click this link to see it and get it. Get the copy/paste codes by clicking the options on the widget itself on this page:

http://tinyurl.com/2xnhn4

See it in use at:
http://Burma-we-care.tk

It looks very nice and works beautifully.

I did put your Yahoo pipe feed through Feedburner first. It seemed to make it work much better with the widget. I included your original link when I put it on my site.

Also, I added a second feed to the widget from the Help Burma group RSS feed at Ma.gnolia.com, to which I regularly post stories I think are especially important and not given enough attention in the MSM.

To see this second feed, click the little arrows at the top of the widget. Anyone can add more feeds to it, or edit it in various ways if they want, before posting it to a blog or wherever.

You can even put it on your desktop.

Wow Peter, great stuff! Cool little widget you made there! I'm going to add it to my google homepage. You just got to love web2.0 for the content manipulation power it affords us! I wasn't familiar with Springwidgets and feedburner. Looked them up and I think I'm going to be playing around with it a lot. I used Yahoo pipes to aggregate all the feeds, but some of the news sites didn't have rss feeds to start with so I had to scrape the news article links off them using feed43 and dapper (which can also be used to create widgets).

It took me a while scraping feed data off all of those non-rss/xml sites! so I'm happy the results of my hard work is being put to good use!

If I find the time I'll try to tweak the feed to get it to display article dates as well.

Cheers,
Florent

Thanks Johnny for the info! pokey.gal@hotmail.com