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Free Burma; Free Aung San Suu Kyi
and all political prisoners in Burma
Saturday, March 8, 2008 Berkeley, CA 94709-2022, USA
Come enjoy Burmese style dinner, speakers, film and performances. Also meet Burma Activists including those who were on the ground in Rangoon during the last year saffron revolution and those who were just back from the Thai Burma border providing providing relief assistance to hundreds of thousand of refugees. *** SPEAKERS *** Ven Dr. Ashin Nayaka: "Burma's Hidden Dimensions: Symbol of freedom"; Dr. Nayaka is a leading member of the International Burmese Monks Organization (Sassana Moli), and the founder and director of the Buddhist Missionary Society in New York. He wrote various articles on Burma’s Saffron Revolution and also testified at the US Congress and Japanese senate on Burma. He is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History, Columbia University of New York and his research on the role of Buddhism in conflict resolution of contemporary Burma will be a critical contest to address Burma 's compelling dilemma. http://www.columbia.edu/~an2201/default.htm
Chinese dissident Harry Wu: “Taming the beast: confronting the real China”; Harry Wu spent 19 years incarcerated by the Chinese government in the Laogai--the “Bamboo Gulag”--as a political prisoner -- in 12 different labor camps. In 1995, Wu was arrested in China, found guilty of “stealing state secrets,” sentenced to 15 years in prison, and was then expelled. The executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation (LRF), a non-profit organization committed to documenting the Laogai system and exposing other human rights abuses in China such as the death penalty, organ harvesting, and the One Child Policy. He also heads the China Information Center (CIC), an online Chinese-language news and commentary website directed at mainland Chinese readers. He received numerous awards for his activities. He would explore how China’s own Human Rights violations and irresponsible policies are causing the prolong dictatorship in Burma and other regional instabilities. He would shed light on the right way the world should deal with Communist China. http://www.laogai.org/
Performer/Speaker: Mary Win, "My life and my music"; Mary Win is an eighteen year old Burmese-American, downtempo rock singer-songwriter from Seattle. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1989 during the time her Burmese parents were fleeing the military dictatorship in neighboring Myanmar (formerly Burma). Shortly after her birth, her parents immigrated to the U.S.A., settling in Seattle, Washington. Visit: http://www.youtube.com/marywinmusic ; www.marywinmusic.com
Filmed on relief
missions with the Free Burma Rangers, this short
film takes you to the frontlines of the conflict
deep within Burma. With millions of people displaced
due to an ongoing civil war, Burma has been rendered
one of the world's poorest countries. As this film
shows, the people have not given up, maintaining
their dignity and hope for peace despite the odds.
http://frontfilms.com/
*** Video ***
$15-30 sliding scale donation to
benefit BADA DirectionsBerkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
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