And in the past week a seven-day remembrance of the girls has included vigils, demonstrations, letter-writing, and a Global Schoolgirl March.
There have been moments of silence and noisy demonstrations, letters to the press from Salman Rushdie and a long interview in Germany with the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, who said that on his most recent visit to Beijing he had urged Ai to keep his head down or to leave the country.
Clarke's position in the Demonstration, the letters to Butler, and the letter to an anonymous author (almost certainly Daniel Waterland) is that space and time are divine properties or modes.
"Indeed, even beyond the reprehensible content of this specific message, we do not believe it appropriate for officers ever to be endorsing violence, particularly in the context of demonstrations," the letter reads.
Trying to counter the corporate effort, unions and environmental and other advocacy groups have organized demonstrations, started letter-writing campaigns and sent supporters to Washington by the busload.
The exiled diaspora and their foreign supporters are able to arrange demonstrations and letter-writing (sorry, e-mailing) campaigns, and disseminate news from all kinds of sources, although in their own communities they may form a small and isolated group (links to Myanmar sites can be found here).
For example, they might organize demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns, give speeches and publish essays, etc.
They held demonstrations, wrote letters to the editors of local papers, mounted Facebook campaigns, protested to the employer, and engaged in conversation about the situation with others in their circles.
There was a demonstration and a letter signed by 50 Scottish writers and artists including David Greig and poet Liz Lochhead.
Students marched through the capital, Kigali, on an anti-BBC demonstration, and a letter signed by a group of 38 academics, writers, diplomats and politicians was emailed on 12 October to the BBC's director-general Tony Hall.
Subsequently, Spivey published the correction of his demonstration as the Letter to the Editor [2].
