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Below you will find a list of reports related to the Blood Money campaign – it will be updated regularly!
June 20th, 2022
Joint Statement
Myanmar and International: Call on President Macron and the French Government to refuse to allow TotalEnergies to use exemptions to EU Sanctions, 459 Organizations from 20 countries.
We urge President Macron and the French Government
1. To prevent millions of dollars of gas revenues reaching the Myanmar military criminal junta by refusing to authorize TotalEnergies’ use of exemptions to EU sanctions.
2. It is imperative that the French government continues to support the Myanmar people’s efforts to end the brutal military dictatorship and build a federal democracy and stop TotalEnergies from funding genocidaires.
President Macron must listen to his own lawmakers and officials and stop capitulating to a corporation that has demonstrated a willingness to disregard the Myanmar people and fund a military junta that is actively engaging in genocide and crimes against humanity.
June 18th, 2022
Location-Phaung Kar Village, Letpadaung Area, Sagaing Region (Myanmar)
“President Macron & French Government – Don’t Allow Exemptions”
Despite of simultaneous oppressions from the junta and instablities in the region, anti-junta mass movement of Phaung Kar Village, Letpadaung area demanding ‘President Macron’ & French Government not to allow exemptions for TotalEnergies! This protest was part of several days of action.
#NoExemption
#FreezePaymentsToJunta #Total_StopSponsoringJunta #BloodMoneyMyanmar
April 18th, 2022
Monywa Township (Myanmar)
Banner drop by Monywa Township Basic Education Students’ Union in front of Denko Petrol Station. It says: Cut the military’s income!
February 12th
LaungLone township, Dawei district, Tanintharyi Region (Myanmar)
Young people urge the Telenor Group not to sell Telenor Myanmar to junta-linked Investcom (Shwe Byine Phyu) and not to transfer user data to the military junta.
For more information on this check out Stop Telenor!
February 10th
Telenor HQ in Fornebu (Norway)
Protest in front of Telenor headquarters in Norway organized by the CRPH (Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw) Support Group.
Call: Immediately stop the sale of Telenor Myanmar to the junta-linked “Investcom Pte” company and not to transfer customer data to the junta!
January 27th
Below you will find the recording of the press conference “TotalEnergies & Chevron are divesting – What does this mean?“.
January 24th
Yinmarpin East/ Salin North (Myanmar)
People in Yinmarpin East and Salin North went on strike calling for international sanctions on the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) and for companies to freeze payments.
January 21st – 24th
Some pictures collected in connection with the online protest #SanctionMOGE calling on the United States of America and the European Union to impose sanctions on MOGE to end the regime’s atrocities in Myanmar:
January 23rd
Laung Lone Township (Myanmar)
Young people demand that the government of the USA as well as the EU Council impose sanctions on MOGE, one of the junta’s revenue sources, as soon as possible.
January 22nd
Yangon (Myanmar)
Dozens of student, youths and members of several civil society organisations protested against the military coup in Myanmar, and their primary demand is ‘Sanction Myanma Oil & Gas Enterprise (MOGE)’.
December 1st
Paris (France)
Press conference to inform about how TotalEnergies keeps supporting the military junta. It was coordinated by Info Birmanie together with activists of the Blood Money Campaign and Global Myanmar Spring Revolution. Materials related to the press conference are online here.
Kale Township (Myanmar)
People rallied in the township against the military dictatorship and in support of the Blood Money Campaign.
November 8th
Yangon (Myanmar)
Youth group of the Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM) expresses support for the Blood Money Campaign and demands that the oil and gas industry stops funding the military junta!
November 2nd
Magdeburg (Germany)
Comrades of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Magdeburg rallied in front of a TotalEnergies petrol station to express solidarity with the struggling workers in Myanmar.
October 30/31st
Some of the pictures related to the social media campaign on those two days:
October 30th
Yangon (Myanmar)
Young protesters rallied and staged a “Freeze payment to Junta to save Myanmar” strike in Yangon.
Monywa (Myanmar)
Workers went on strike and rallied in the streets against the military dictatorship demanding the oil and gas companies to freeze all payments to junta.
Halle (Germany)
Members of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Halle rallied in front of an H&M store.
Dublin (Ireland)
Rally organized by NUG Supporters Ireland as well as GMSR Ireland in collaboration with IWW Ireland.
Phaungka (Myanmar)
People of Phaungkar village, Letpadaung area, protested against the oil and gas companies, especially TotalEnergies and Chevron that continue bankrolling to the military junta to freeze all payments.
October 29th
Yinmarpin Township (Myanmar)
A protest related to the Blood Money Campaign was held in Yinmarpin Township with protesters chanting slogans such as “Freeze Payments to Junta and Save Myanmar”.
Hamburg (Germany)
Up to 20 people joined a rally in front of the Chevron Europe office in Hamburg. It was orgaized by the local chapters of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Many passers-by took notice and leaflets were distributed.
Chevron will be informed about this action in an extra email.
Dresden (Germany)
Comrades of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Dresden rallied in front of the TotalEnergis petrol station of the town.
October 27th
Namkham (Myanmar)
People rallied in the streets of Namkhan Township, in northern Shan State, demanding that companies and corporations stop financing the military junta.
Mandalay (Myanmar)
Mandalay Sangha Union did a night strike holding “Freeze Payments To Junta and Save Myanmar” banners. The monks have been joining the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) for months now and also suffered from repression.
A lone protester on the street of Mandalay amid the bloodshed by the military junta forces.
“မြန်မာပြည်ကိုကယ်တင်ရေး စစ်ကောင်စီကို ငွေမပေး”
Comrades of the Building and Wood Workers Federation of Myanmar (BWFM) join the protest movement against Chevron and TotalEnergies to freeze all payments to the military junta.
October 24th
Derry (North of Ireland)
Comrades of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) placed a banner on “possibly the most photographed gable wall in Ireland” (visitderry.com).
October 23rd
Kale Township (Myanmar)
The Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) is not over!
People begin to rally also in context of the Blood Money Campaign. To mark the 258th day of anti-junta protests, some people rallied in Kale Township.
New York City (U.S.A.)
The New York City Burmese Community (NYCBC) together with Global Myanmar Spring Revolution (GMSR) organized a rally.
October 9th
Stuttgart (Germany)
Civil society activists rallied in front of a Primark store in the city center of Stuttgart.
September 27th
Ireland
The Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) released the following statement:
Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) is a collective of incarcerated Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) members who organise around prison and class struggle issues from inside prison. This call also aims to be a solidarity call to all activists and trade unionists imprisoned in Myanmar for fighting back the military regime.
source: onebigunion.ie
Members of the Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) have issued a message of international solidarity with workers in Myanmar and the Blood Money Campaign.
The statement was released earlier today by prisoners following increased solidarity action protests across Ireland, England and Scotland.
“We send love and solidarity to the people of Myanmar, including the thousands imprisoned and those whose loved ones have been killed by the dictatorship. “Your brave resistance against ruthless repression and unimaginable atrocities is an inspiration to all those who aspire for a better world and whilst our own imprisonment limits the range of actions open to us, we are committed to standing with you in whatever way we can.
“We intend to educate those within our reach about the ‘Blood Money Campaign’ making our families, friends and fellow prisoners aware of the actions that workers in Myanmar are undertaking. We aim to highlight the role of multinational corporations plat in proving direct and indirect support to the military dictatorship.
“We will echo your calls for all those companies doing business with the regime to divest immediately and end their association with the suppression of freedom and justice.
“We hope we can aid you in your struggle and in our own small way pierce the veil of normalisation the dictatorship wishes to present to the world.”
September 25th
Dublin (Ireland)
The Blood Money Campaign reached Dublin. Comrades of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) together with other supporters rallied in front of the Penneys (Primark) store at Mary Street.
Blood Money Campaign in Dublin received great reception outside Penneys-Primark Store on Mary Street. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World where joined by members of the Burmese community to help highlight the international Blood Money Campaign and the continuing actions against multinationals such as Primark Limited who, despite having online ethical standards and policies, continues to support the Military regime in Myanmar with Blood Money Investments. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World Ireland have extended its hand of solidarity through the various unions and grassroots social justice movements in Myanmar. Unions such as the Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM), All Burma Federation of Trade Unions (ABFTU) and Food not Bombs Myanmar – with the support of the Asia Working Group of the International Confederation of Labour (ICL) who have confirmed a host of international companies that continues to assist the regime and/or military owed businesses.
source: facebook.com
The recently established ‘Bloody Money Campaign’ has been endorsed and supported by IWW to help raise awareness of how multinational companies are still profiting from doing business with the military regime in Myanmar.
To help defend workers rights, members of IWW will continue to hold information pickets outside businesses locally who are currently assisting investment and the funding of the Myanmar military regime. A spokesperson for the IWW told of this afternoons solidarity action outside of Primark and Penneys stores said “Today we had a very visible action to help raise awareness of how workers in Myanmar are being treated by the military regime there. We are here to help shine some light on those businesses here in Ireland who happily contribute to that same brutal Military Council in Myanmar. “It has been confirmed that Primark Limited and Penneys in Ireland are still engaged in doing business with the Myanmar regimes who have a track record in war crimes, human rights violation, genocide and crime against humanity in Myanmar. “As part of this unfolding international campaign through the International Confederation of Labour (ICL), IWW will play its part to help highlight the abuse of workers in Ireland and in Myanmar. ”
For updates, more information and you can help out at actions locally, please check out our social media pages and our main website.
#bloodmoneycampaign
London (UK)
On September 25th, people from Myanmar living in London and other cities in the UK answered the call by Myanmar organizations who collaborated and organized a movement called Blood Money Campaign demanding all the multinational corporations which are investing in Myanmar’s Oil and Gas sector, foreign money source for Myanmar Military Junta, to suspend all the revenues owed to Myanmar Government.
source: facebook.com
Suspending all the payments of the projects from multinational companies including TotalEnergies Group from France, Chevron from the United States, POSCO from South Korea, and Petronas from Malaysia, means cutting the main source of foreign money for Myanmar fascist Militar. That’s why they joined the movement.
One of the participants said that they wanted to show the world that the inhumane atrocities, repressions, and extreme human rights violations committed by the Myanmar Military are still continuing in Myanmar as there is less news about Myanmar on the media after 8 months of the Myanmar Military in power.
Blood Money Campaign is organized by Trade and Labour Unions, and Myanmar Nationalities from foreign countries.
During the Blood Money Campaign on Saturday, the demonstrators distributed pamphlets, dressing and naming the dummies after the children who were killed by the Myanmar Military.
The demonstrators who participated in that campaign told the BBC that they visited BBC Broadcasting Service Headquarters, Oxford Circus, Picadilly Circus, and London Eye, distributed pamphlets, and encouraged UK citizens to find ways to help Myanmar people and to cooperate in the Blood Money Campaign. They also said that UK citizens are also interested in the campaign and responded interactively.
September 24th
Flensburg (Germany)
Friends of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Flensburg rallied in front of the Deutsche Post city headquarter:
The general syndicate of the FAU Flensburg declares its solidatity with all working people and all comrades of the Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM) and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Myanmar (CTUM). We demand that Deutsche Post/DHL, in front of the main Flensburg branch of which we showed our solidarity today, the 24th of September 2021, and all companies, that are still doing business with the Junta, to stop those activities and halt all investments in Myanmar!
submitted by email on September 24th, 2021
#StopPayingToJunta
In Solidarity!
FAU-FL
September 18th
Bristol (UK)
Workers organized with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Bristol gathered in front of a Primark store and handed out leaflets. Also this activity was part of the Global Week of Action.
September 17th
Berlin (Germany)
Labour activists of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Berlin rallied at the DRIVE Volkswagen Group Forum at Unter den Linden.
Today FAU Berlin showed solidarity in front of the VW store in the city center. We handed out flyers in English/German and played the audio file.
Sinotruk vehicles have been used to stage attacks against civilians involving live ammunition which amounts to crimes against humanity. Sinotruk vehicles have also been used to transport those arbitrarily detained. […]
complete text: globalmayday.net
German truck manufacturer MAN is a major strategic shareholder in Sinotruk Hong Kong. Through their partnership with Sinotruk, MAN is directly linked to the Myanmar military’s grave human rights violations and must act now to end its complicity.
MAN is part of the Volkswagen Group.
September 15th
Iruñea (Spain)
Comrades of National Confederation of Labour (CNT) joined the Global Week of Action by rallying in front of their offices and reading out the following statement:
From CNT Iruñea, we want to support the solidarity call of the Myanmar trade union movement.
In Myanmar, the state, in the form of a military dictatorship, has suppressed political freedoms, and started the persecution of the trade union movement, preventing the working class to defend their interests. Companies use this situation to save costs, making working conditions even more precarious, and not complying with collective agreements and legislation on occupational safety.
In this way we point out that brands such as: Adidas, H&M, Primark, DHL or Volkswagen, are direct accomplices of the military government, benefiting from the limitation of the political freedoms of the working class and financing the government with their investments. Faced with capitalism organized on a global scale, from the anarcho-syndicalist movement, we consider it essential to recover the values of proletarian internationalism. That is why we make this call to the working class to boycott complicit brands.
September 11th
The first Global Week of Action related to the Blood Money campaign kicks off!
Hamburg (Germany)
Around ten labour activists rallied in front of an Adidas store in the city center of Hamburg for several hours. Most of them are organized with the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
More than 300 leaflets were distributed and an audio message from comrades in Myanmar played several times.
The store manager was not amused and tried to intimidate the crowd. He took pictures, was much on the phone and most likely talking to the management in the Adidas headquarter.
Derry (Northern Ireland)
In Derry comrades of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rallied in front of a Primark outlet.
Warsaw (Poland)
Comrades of the grassroot labour union Workers’ Initiative (IP) in Warsaw rallied at different points in the city to publicly link companies with the Blood Money campaign.
September 3rd
Participants of the anti-fascist trekking week, organized by the Schwarz-Rote Bergsteiger*innen (Black-Red Mountaineers), which is a sub-section of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Dresden, expressed their support for the Blood Money Campaign in the mountains of Saxon Switzerland.
August 25th
Berlin (Germany)
Activists of the grassroot labour union Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Berlin expressed their support for the Blood Money campaign. More activities might follow.
August 8th
The IWW Ireland actively supports the Blood Money campaign. In some cities branches of the grassroot union Industrial Workers of the World arranged actions to mark the kick-off date in support of the comrades in Myanmar.
Derry (Northern Ireland)
Solidarity with BLOOD MONEY CAMPAIGN
source: facebook.com
Solidarity action in Derry with workers in Myanmar today took place outside one of the many multinational companies still involved and investing in the ruthless regime murdering and imprisoning the trade union movement throughout Myanmar.
Over the next number of months members of IWW Ireland will be holding information stalls/pickets at Penneys and Primark stores across the country to call on these companies to STOP BLOOD MONEY INVESTMENT in Myanmar.
Check with your local organisers of when stalls will take place where you live.
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
London (England)
Blood Money Campaign (ground movement) was held in conjunction with SAVE Myanmar March, commemorating 33 years of the 8888 uprising and Struggle for democracy at parliament square.