Following Wealth
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And Oi! Hey you! Remember that Burma is ‘apparently’ having more democratic elections next year (2010). Only Aung San Suu Kyi, the wanted leader of NLD, has had her house arrest extended because some American dude swam the river to go see her. Strange thing to do, but the junta would have extended her sentence anyway.
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A friend in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Chadwick made a great poster of Aung San Suu Kyi ‘We can do it’, based on the second world war American posters encouraging home work efforts by women.
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We Can Do It
| But isn’t Burma and Myanmar the same country? | yes, the military junta changed the name to Myanmar in 1989 to represent the junta’s ethnicity | So they’re trying to crowd out the other nationalities | Seems so | Where are the other nationalities going then? | Well, a lot of them go to Thailand | what are they going into Thailand for? | i don’t know, perhaps they’re following their wealth |
Sourcing Silver
Perhaps I shouldn’t use Tiffany as an example. I have used Tiffany to represent jewellers as a whole. I have no researched evidence to where Tiffany gets their minerals. And Tiffany does profess to believe in social and environmental responsibility on their page ‘Sources and Mining Practices’. And in fact, my sister and I also sell beautiful silver jewellery sourced from South East Asia. I also can’t always know where gemstones and silver is coming from. We’re only little.
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| So I’m getting it from Tiffany’s because they publicize that they refuse to source silver, rubies and anything else from Burma | Yeah, it’s totally worth paying an extra 6,000% to be guaranteed that it hasn’t been sourced from a country with a military junta | Totally! | So where do they get their minerals from then? | Thailand probably | i didn’t know Thailand had a large source of high quality minerals suitable for Tiffany’s? | They don’t… | … they get it from Myanmar |