For Immediate Release: October 15th, 2004
Contact: Carla Sacks or Mary Moyer at Sacks
& Co., (212)741.1000, carla@sacksco.com
or mary@sacksco.com,
or Jeremy Woodrum or Aung Din at US Campaign
for Burma, (202) 223-0300.

TWO-CD SET FEATURING U2, R.E.M., PAUL McCARTNEY, ERIC CLAPTON,
STING, PETER GABRIEL AND OTHERS BANNED BY BURMAíS
MILITARY REGIME AFTER ARTISTS UNITE TO FREE
THE WORLDíS ONLY IMPRISONED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
RECIPIENT, AUNG SAN SUU KYI

The
Burma Military junta has banned For the Lady.
The border guards of the State Peace and Development
Council (SPDC) have been ordered by its military
intelligence to carry out thorough searches
on people coming into Burma and confiscate For
The Lady, a benefit album with the world’s
leading artists dedicated to freeing Aung San
Suu Kyi and the courageous people of Burma.

The album will feature 27 tracks and will be
released on October 26 on Rhino Records. Proceeds
from the sale of the album will benefit the
non-profit U.S. Campaign For Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi continues to remain under house
arrest despite the fact that her party, National
League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide in
the 1990 election as the military junta has
been refusing to hand over power to her party.
She was recently voted as one of Asia’s Heroes
in a 2004 TIME magazine online poll.

Like the leaders of many oppressive regimes,
Burma’s military regime is fearful of
the power of rock and roll, and singing a freedom
song usually results in a minimum seven-year
prison sentence. The founder of U.S. Campaign
for Burma, Jeremy Woodrum issued this statement:
“According to a radio station that beams
news inside Burma, we just learned that For
the Lady was banned by the ruling dictators.
The fact that Burma’s dictators are threatened
by songs from Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton,
Sting, and others shows how weak they truly
are. Just as rock ‘n roll helped tear down the
Iron Curtain, it can help bring freedom to Burma.”

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