News Roundup 9/26/07
For those who don't understand the outrage over Jena 6
Spirit vs Steel

- Virginia teen attacked by five teenage assailants; charged with misdemeanor mob attack
- Earl Ofari Hutchinson makes "A Plea to Jena 6 Defendent Judge J.P. Mauffray"
Spirit vs Steel
- Burmese Monks are beaten and arrested by military during marches for Democracy
- Blogger Nlknayman, defying military imposed censorship, is posting pictures of the Monk led marches. In some pictures, you can actually see the people making human chains around the monks to protect them from the military.
- Time: Eyewitness reports coming out of Burma describe the police beating monks as they pray!

- Read Ko htike's prosaic collection is a hospital worker's first hand account of the protest in Burma
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