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Terry Cottam (r)
R.I.P
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In a message dated 11/9/99 10:45:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Terry Cottam embodied unrelenting principaled determination in his
> modest, brillant and unassuming but towering figure and personality. His
> sense of human and wit, and steadfast pioneering attachment to the cause
> of Free Burma inspired others, including myself, that the movement has a
> living diversity to which is must be firmly dedicated to be real. The
> Free Burma Coalition brought us together like two passing ships at sea.
> We flashed lights and both went on our way, separated but united
> by wide ocean of committment and single-minded loyalty to the cause of
> freedom and democracy for the people of Burma against the junta and
> unchecked illegal exploitation of the country. From the other side of
> the Atlantic I worked with him on the PepsiCo movement and thank him now
> once again for helping to show the way that what we do is not only right
> and correct, but brings results.
>
> He knocked down the lies and haughty posture of a billion company and in
> his way cut through the glitz and glamour of the lies in PepsiCo
> publicity and the arrogance of cutting a deal with the dictatorship.
> We lost a valuable man, a man who wore his battle scars privately with
> indifference to the personal sacrifice of his work.
>
> May his memory be a binding reminder of what we can do together, and
> what he wanted us to do and to keep doing, in each and every way, no
> matter how small it may seem to be, or how large and ambitious, that all
> of us and all of our work denouncing the lies and hypocricy, cutting out
> the falseness and ignorance of what seeks to betray and undermine cannot
> and will not succeed. Terry Cottam knew that well enough to give and
> share his life with the cause of Free Burma. There are many who will say
> that one single man cannot move the world. Terry Cottam knew that this
> was not so. And this is what he did. And he shook the world and made it
> a better place for all of us. Thank you Terry. Large or small there
> never was a better man. We do not and will not forget how you touched
> many of us and how we will carry on your work. So as you go in peace,
> we stay for now, and fare thee well.
>
> And thank you for sharing your life with the Free Burma Coalition
> Movement.
>