EARTH ENEMY #1
2008 SAN FRANCISCO'S EARTH DAY EVENT
MARCH AND RALLY TIME: 12:30pm, Tue. April 22nd
PLACE: Market and Sansome (in front of E-TRADE)
to Chevron SF offices at 345 California St.
Protest Chevron's Attack on the
Environment and Environmentalists!
Expose the crude reality of
Chevron's inHumane Energy
operations from
Ecuador to Richmond.
Sponsored by:
Amazon Watch (www.amazonwatch. org)
Global Exchange (www.globalexchange. org)
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice (www.greenaction. org)
Rainforest Action Network (www.ran.org)
West County Toxics Coalition (www.westcountytoxic scoalition. org)
For more information on the march call 415-487-9600 or email chevrontoxico@ amazonwatch. org
MARCH AND RALLY TIME: 12:30pm, Tue. April 22nd
PLACE: Market and Sansome (in front of E-TRADE)
to Chevron SF offices at 345 California St.
Protest Chevron's Attack on the
Environment and Environmentalists!
Expose the crude reality of
Chevron's inHumane Energy
operations from
Ecuador to Richmond.
Sponsored by:
Amazon Watch (www.amazonwatch. org)
Global Exchange (www.globalexchange. org)
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice (www.greenaction. org)
Rainforest Action Network (www.ran.org)
West County Toxics Coalition (www.westcountytoxic scoalition. org)
For more information on the march call 415-487-9600 or email chevrontoxico@ amazonwatch. org
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The Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
presents a talk in its SPECIAL BURMA SERIES
presents a talk in its SPECIAL BURMA SERIES
"Politics, Anti-Politics & the 2007 Monks' Protest in Burma"
Ingrid Jordt
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Turning over the alms bowl" is a form of non-violent Buddhist protest with deep historical roots in Burma. This talk will discuss the religious boycott as a soft power movement that negotiates the careful divide between religious moral sanction and outright political action.
Prof. Jordt is a special authority on Burmese Buddhism having spent several years in Burma as an ordained nun in the 1980s. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University where she studied with Prof. Stanley Tambiah, and has emerged as a leading expert in recent months in providing context on the popular protests that erupted in Burma in 2007.
Her most recent book is "Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power" (Ohio, 2007).
Co-Sponsored by UC Berkeley's Center for Buddhist Studies
Thursday, April 24, 2008
5:00 6:30 p.m.
IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor
2223 Fulton St. (at Kittredge), Berkeley CA
Free and open to the public. This lecture is made possible through the generous support of an external grant made to UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
