Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
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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