Saturday, March 05, 2011

Tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi and Panel on Gandhi's Non-Violent Social Change, Burma, Iran and the Middle East. Make sense of what you see on TV -


Free or not free? Oil on canvas portrait of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, painted in 2008, painting and photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.


http://neiuevents.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/non-violent-social-change-a-major-conference-at-neiu-march-10-11-2011/

Northeastern Illinois University,
Chicago, IL

Friday 11th March


10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Student Union Building, room 214



The Gandhian Method of Non-Violence Struggle and Its Applicability to Burma , Iran & Middle East



Moderator & Panelist:

Maura Stephens, Associate Director, Park Center for Independent Media, and Adjunct Journalism Faculty, Ithaca College; Independent Journalist and Humanitarian; and Former Senior Policy Adviser, International Campaign for Freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma



Panelists:



Mark Mattaini, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago



Cyrus Bina, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota , Morris



Kyi May Kaung, Senior Researcher, VAHU Research & Member, Technical Advisory Network, NCGUB (Burmese Democratic Government in Exile)



Further info: Dr Hamid Akbari


http://www.neiu.edu/neiu_experts/Experts_Bios/Hamid_Akbari.html

Maura Stephens

Dr Kyi May Kaung - leave message with interview request in subject line as comment on this blog.
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myanmar junta says it has retaken Myawaddy police outpost--stay tuned.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-says-troops-back-in-border-trade-hub-myawaddy.html