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August 14 in Katy, TX
Presented by Living World Lutheran Church
Living World Lutheran Church
3700 S. Mason Rd
7:00pm
Contact: Cindy Belmar
(713) 775-5834
August 20-23 in Meru, Kenya
Presented by International
Peace Initiatives-Kenya
International Grassroots Women's Peace Congress
Contact: Anne Fitzgerald
(781) 891-7810
August 25 in Fredrick, MD
Presented by CinemArts
Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center
40 South Carroll Street
7:30pm
Contact: info@cinemarts.org
August 27 in New Zealand
Presented on the Rialto Channel
Channel 25
New Zealand
8:30pm
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August 30 in Atlanta, GA
Presented by UNIFEM US National Council, Georgia Chapter
Atlanta Central Library
One Margaret Mitchell Square
2:30pm
Contact:
georgia@unifem-usnc.org
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August 30 in Chicago, IL
Presented by Annoyance Productions
The Annoyance Theater
4830 N Broadway
8:00pm
Contact: Jennifer C. Estilin at (773) 561-4664
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September 3 in Raleigh, NC
Presented by the US National Committee for UNIFEM,
North Carolina Chapter
Meredith College
Jones Auditorium, Jones Hall
3800 Hillsborough St
7:00pm
Contact:northcarolina@unifem-usnc.org
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September 5 in East Meadow, NY
Presented by the East Meadow Public Library
1886 Front St
7:30pm
Contact: Jude Schanzer, jschanzer@eastmeadow.info
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The Union of Myanmar (BURMA)
Human rights in Burma are a long-standing concern for the international community and human rights organizations. There is general consensus that the military regime in Burma is one of the world's most repressive and abusive regimes. General Ne Win, the leader of 1962 coup, established a totalitarian regime. A devotee of Marx and Stalin, Ne Win brutally crushed the opposition. The Burmese Way to Socialism (also known as the Burmese Road to Socialism) included ideas such as largescale nationalization, isolationism, ethnic cleansing, and a police state. The regime, known today as the State Peace and Development Council, was forced to make small reformations because of economic catastrophes and from the actions of the 8888 Uprising. They remain in power to this day.
Several human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have reported on human rights abuses by the military government. They have claimed that there is no independent judiciary in Burma. The military government restricts internet access through software-based censorship that limits the material citizens can access online. Forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor are common. The military is also notorious for rampant use of sexual violence as an instrument of control, including systematic rapes and taking people for use as sex slaves for military personnel.
»Click here to read "Human Rights in Burma" on Wikipedia
»Click here to read "Politics of Burma" on Wikipedia
»Click here to visit the US Campaign for Burma website
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8888 Uprising
The 8888 uprising was started by students in Yangon (Rangoon) on August 8, 1988. Student protests spread throughout the country, and hundreds of thousands of ocher-robed monks, young children, university students, housewives, doctors joined them to demonstrate against the regime The uprising ended on September 18, after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). |
Thousands of deaths have been attributed to the military during this uprising. During the crisis, Aung San Suu Kyi emerged as a national icon. When the military junta arranged an election in 1990, her party, the National League for Democracy, won. However, the military junta refused to recognize the results and placed Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
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"Burma's suffering is also ours," By Desmond Tutu
"I think of my sister Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi every day. Her picture hangs on the wall of my office, reminding me that, thousands of miles away in Asia, a nation is oppressed."
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"Burma Court Finds Aung San Suu Kyi Guilty," by Andrew Marshall of Time Magazine
"Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will spend another 18 months as a prisoner of Burma's military junta, a Rangoon court decreed today. She was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest after an American man called John Yettaw swam to her lakeside house in Rangoon in May. Yettaw, who has been in poor health, was sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labor."
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