Talk on China-USA relations at Sasakawa Foundation last Monday
http://www.ipsnewsasia.net/bridgesfromasia/node/134
Written by John Feffer of Institute for Policy Studies.
Panel discussion on Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma on Feb 14, 2009
http://mirca-art.com/beacon.htm
Chinese scholar whose blog was shut down threatens to sue Google and Yahoo --
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/chinese_dissident_to_sue_google_and_yahoo/
Of interest to Burmese bloggers who undergo regime harrassment.
Activist Attorney for Migrant and Farmers' Rights, Shelly Davis, dies --
Fallout -- collage copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/15/AR2008121502904.html
In the face of death, so little we can do. Shelley worked to make others' lives better.
Sincere condolences to Helen and other family members and friends. I am looking for a floral tribute photo to post.
k
Owed to the press -- poem by Richard Lawson -- posted with his permission --
Owed to the Press
Want to lie without redress?
Get a nice job in the press!
If you're regularly pissed
You could be a journalist.
If you like to cast ordure
You could be an interviewer.
If your thing is smearing poo
Broadcaster's the job for you.
If you'd like to be a Nazi
You can join the paparazzi
If you think we do not need yer
Go and sign on with the media.
Don't let them fool you all the way -
Make April First your No News Day!
Copyright Richard Lawson. More poetry from Richard Lawson at
http://www.greenhealth.org.uk/PoePol.htm
Which of us in the Burmese Democracy Movement haven't been batted around by (especially the Burmese language)media, but also certain hard talkers, who should be hard talking the junta, not us. I think this poem captures it all.
Kyi May Kaung.
Understanding the Kachin conflict -- from Pulitzer International Center for Crisis Reporting --
http://pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2008/12/myanmar-11-key-points-for-understanding-the-kachin-conflict.html#more
Renewed conflict is expected after Burmese military junta's 2010 "election."
Authors write that 1994 ceasefire achieved nothing.
Kyi May Kaung
Official portraits of President George W. and Mrs. Laura Bush revealed --
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Official-Bush-portraits-unveiled/ss/events/pl/121908bushportraits
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass on what is prose poetry, role of poetry etc.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haas/prosepoems.htm
In 1997 I was at a poetry slam downtown where a group of high school students "slammed" well-known poets such as Nikki Giovanni, the audience gave grades by holding up cards with numbers on them and the high school students won.
Kyi May Kaung
Death of political poetry in USA --
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3169.html
How different from poetry in my country of origin (Burma) where you can be jailed or killed or lose a job for a poem.
kmk
Review of Guy Delisle's graphic novel Burma Chronicles --
http://blog.oregonlive.com/steveduin/2008/12/graphic_novel_review_burma.html
It's all true, let me assure you.
Kyi May Kaung
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