Aung San Suu Kyi, the courageous Burmese prisoner of conscience who has spent more than 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest is now a free woman. For a dramatic demonstration of how one person can ignite the dream of freedom in an entire nation, just click the clip above

Meanwhile, the junta that imprisoned Suu Kyi has been “reelected” – and more than 2,200 political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, are still being held in deplorable conditions for simply exercising their right to peaceful protest. Click here to sign a petition calling for the release of Burma’s political prisoners today.