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Simon Billenness

@simonbillenness.bsky.social

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Democracy, human rights, and corporate accountability advocate with a special focus on Burma/Myanmar. Executive Director of International Campaign for the Rohingya and No Business With Genocide

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Yesterday, we had a very productive day on the Hill lobbying for bills and appropriations for #Burma (#Myanmar). We met up on the street with Senator Ed Markey (D, MA) and had the opportunity to thank him for his long-time support for the Burmese people.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Thank you, U.S. Rep. Eugene Vindman (D, VA-07), for stepping up for the people of #Myanmar by co-sponsoring the BRAVE #Burma Act (H.R.3190). @repvindman.bsky.social

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Republican lobby firm DCI Group just took $3 million of dirty money to lobby the Trump Administration on behalf of the genocidal Myanmar military junta.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hat tip to the Burmese community of Buffalo (NY) who, through their continual grassroots lobbying about their homeland of #Burma, have persuaded Rep. Timothy Kennedy to join the Congressional Burma Caucus and to sponsor H.Res.106 calling for an arms embargo on the #Myanmar military junta.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Please share widely this video about how Radio Free Asia stood with the people of Burma.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I feel an increasing panic that Trump’s antics over Greenland, Kennedy Center, and now Super Bowl are intended to distract from Musk’s illegal attack on the federal government and Vance’s announcement that the Administration will not comply with court rulings triggering a constitutional crisis.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Listening to Vice President Vance speak about the persecution of Christians at the International Religious Freedom Summit. He didn’t even use the terms Abrahamic faiths or the Judeo-Christian tradition. He only talked about Christians. If you were here, tell me the one question you’d ask him.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Go to your state capital building at noon on February 5th.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you, U.S. Representative Tim Kennedy (D. NY-26), for becoming the 15th member of the Congressional #Burma Caucus. #Myanmar

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yesterday, Salai Mang Hre Lian, a human rights advocate from Burma, received from Secretary of State Antony Blinken one of the State Department's Global Human Rights Defender Awards.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

So far, We the People have voted once to not hire him, once to fire him, and only once to hire him for a limited term.

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thank you, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, for signing up as the 16th co-sponsor of the #Rohingya Genocide, Accountability, and Protection Act (H.R.8936). #whatshappeninginmyanmar

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Simon Billenness @simonbillenness.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thank you Rep. Ted Lieu for saying yes to our request that he co-sponsor the #Rohingya Genocide, Accountability, and Protection Act (H.R.8936). @reptedlieu.bsky.social

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