Sunday, September 30, 2018

Running around NY on behalf of most persecuted.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/28/652335592/running-around-new-york-and-through-downpours-for-the-rohingya Even if you can't go to NY and walk in rain, you can at least click your mouse and fwd or retweet this. You won't believe what I have achieved by just one click. Also how just one factoid, given to me in conversation, while walking in NY, helped me. This was the first person, a former student, who told me of the 1982 racist Burmese "law." Set from above by 4 men, including dictator Ne Win. "We just thought 1824 (first Anglo Burmese War, is too far off, so we chose 1886 (3rd Anglo-Burmese War.)" In my book length poem Shee Monkey goes West, a Pew finalist script, the Jade Emperor looks at a chart to see if the red bottom monkeys are the "right shade." Don't be an extreme nationalist/racist bigot, evil person who thinks only polka dots or stripes have rights. Refugees mean they sought refuge--and Burma is supposed to be Buddhist, but maybe the m. country is--it is racist. Enough. km

Roger Ebert.com--Great Performances 2024

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-great-performances-of-2024-part-two