As supporters of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra are busily preparing celebrations for his 60th birthday this Sunday, a campaign has started in cyberspace for people to wear black on that day as a gesture of protest against the celebrations.

The campaign was started by a twitter message. It's not known who started it, but it has spread like wild fire in cyberspace.

I did not receive the message myself, but learned about it from an article in Thursday’s Manager newspaper by Anchalee Paireerat. However, a colleague of mine admitted she had received the message, but the sender was not identified.

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-- Bangkok Post 23/07/09 http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion...paign-under-way

I'm hearing that most of the anti-Thaksin crowd will just wear their usual Army fatigues.

I'm hearing that most of the anti-Thaksin crowd will just wear their usual Army fatigues.

I'm hearing that most of the anti-Thaksin crowd will just wear their usual Army fatigues.

Nice one

I think I'll encourage all the Thais I know here to wear read armbands!

I think I'll encourage all the Thais I know here to wear read armbands!

Do you think they will understand the joke?

great wear black in a bloody hot humid country

good idea

not!

I'll tell the g/f, maybe she will wear red underneath

She loves the guy.

More than half of my clothes are black and I live in Chiang Mai. I need to know how long this latest stupidity will last.

I prefer not to support any on the fashion related political posturing in this country. But I am running out of colors to choose.

More than half of my clothes are black and I live in Chiang Mai. I need to know how long this latest stupidity will last.

I prefer not to support any on the fashion related political posturing in this country. But I am running out of colors to choose.

How about a no shirt movement, we can express neutrality by not wearing a shirt at all.

Hmmm yellows, reds, blues, now blacks?

dammit. My ex g/f threw out all my black clothes from my punk/new wave clothing phase. Ok, true, I probably couldn't fit in some of those things now, but had I known that black was in again, I'd never have let her go Martha Stewart on me.

Black is the new Yellow then.

Whomever knows for a fact what will be the next color, might have a head start, and can make a fortune in t-shirts.

More than half of my clothes are black and I live in Chiang Mai. I need to know how long this latest stupidity will last.

I prefer not to support any on the fashion related political posturing in this country. But I am running out of colors to choose.

I read somewhere that you could 'PhotoShop' your clothes from colour into black and white and visa versa Try it

Yours truly,

Kan Win

More than half of my clothes are black and I live in Chiang Mai. I need to know how long this latest stupidity will last.

I prefer not to support any on the fashion related political posturing in this country. But I am running out of colors to choose.

How about a no shirt movement, we can express neutrality by not wearing a shirt at all.

i'm not wearing pants.

How about a no shirt movement, we can express neutrality by not wearing a shirt at all.

Too many hairy falangs already fly that flag

black/yellow = dress as bumble bee(s)????

Be like Joseph, and wear a "coat of many colours", But here in Thailand you could wear a tee shirt of many colours, as it's too hot for a coat!!