Please sign this petition addressed to the European Union, the United States government, ASEAN governments and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ask the Vietnamese government to formally recognize the Plum Village practice of Buddhism. By joining the petition and the group of 100,000 people asking for religious freedom, you will make [...]
Petition to ASEAN – Against Violence in Bat Nha Monastery
Target: ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
Sponsored by: Mindfulness Practice Communities of Australia
Dear Friends,
Our brothers and sisters in Australia and New Zealand have formulated this new petition directed towards the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Please help them by signing this petition and getting the word out to your friends (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Blogs, [...]
British Embassy in Hanoi requests meeting with the Vietnamese Government
The UK Embassy in Hanoi has “requested a meeting with the Vietnamese Government”, helpbatnha.org has learned today.
Don’t just do something, sit there! – a message from the Plum Village fourfold sangha
Dear friends,
As you may know, our sisters and brothers of Bat Nha in Vietnam have been violently evicted from their monastery. They are being viciously harassed by the police who are trying to break up and disperse the Sangha. But the monks and nuns assert their right to stay together. Without a Sangha we are [...]
Petition to United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, from Mindfulness Practice Community of Toronto, Canada
Click here to sign this petition at thepetitionsite.com
Petition to U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee from Friends of Thich Nhat Hanh – Geoff Livingston
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Sample Letter to US Congress Rep. and Senator
Sample letter
Appeal Letter to the US Government
August 18th, 2009
RE: Request for Support and Inquiry into situation at a Buddhist monastery in Vietnam
Dear Senator or Representative: (find name and information from their website)
We are writing today to bring to your attention a difficult situation arising in Vietnam that we are very concerned about. [...]
SIGN!! Petition Letter To the Vietnamese Consulate
Dear Beloved Community,
Please help us sign this petition to the Vietnamese Government addressed to the Vietnamese Consulate in San Francisco. Please ask your friends and loved ones to sign it as well. We intend to send it by July 21, 2009.
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July 12, 2009
Mr. Le Quoc Hung, Consul General
Consulate General of Vietnam in San Francisco
1700 [...]
A Call To All OI Members to Help Bat Nha
Plum Village July 12, 2009
Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Order of Interbeing in Vietnam and around the world,
The 400 monks and nuns of Bat Nha Monastery are in great need of our prayers and help. The Sangha of Plum Village is calling for all OI members to organize their sanghas to sit and chant [...]