Dear All,
BAWA wishes you a very Happy New year and hopes everyone is doing well.
It is again the time of the year for BAWA to have an annual general body meeting and election.
We would like to invite you all to come out and suppose BAWA election. We will give an update of BAWA's 2009 Activities that we have leaded, and/or participated. We will also share our plans for 2010 and our vision for the future. Financial report will be presented and new changes to Bylaw will be informed as well.
Please mark your calendar and make sure to come out to support BAWA and its causes.
Where: 19400 Sorenson Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014
When: Saturday January 23th 2010 at 1PM-3PM
Refreshments will be served. You are welcome to bring snacks or drinks to share also.
With Regards,
Burmese American Women Alliance.
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I Vow to help as much as I can to bring Freedom to Burma. But, since I cannot do this alone, I'd like to share and update what is going on in the country so that you can HELP to Free Burma as well.
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Where is Burma?
What is Burma?
Burma is the second largest country in Southeast Asia and is located to the east of India and Bangladesh, to the southwest of China and to the west of Laos and Thailand. The country has a population of nearly 55 million. Burma was once the richest country in Asia and is now considered one of the poorest.
Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. It spends half its budget on the military while the population goes without access to proper health care, education and food.
Today Burma is a country ruled by fear. The regime ruthlessly persecutes human rights and democracy activists, imprisoning at least 2100 political prisoners, many of whom are routinely tortured. There is widespread use of forced labor.
Burma has more child soldiers than any other country in the world with children as young as 11 snatched by soldiers on their way home from school and forced to join the army. One in ten babies die before their fifth birthday. In Eastern Burma, the regime is waging a war of ethnic cleansing and using rape as a weapon of war against ethnic women and children. More than 3,300 villages have been destroyed.
Elections were held in 1990, and the National League for Democracy, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, won 82% of seats in parliament. The regime refused to hand over power, and instead unleashed a new wave of oppression.
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January
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- U.S. Arms for Taiwan Send Beijing a Message
- Burmese Soldiers Still Recruit Underage Youth
- Detained US Citizen's Trial Postponed
- Myanmar says Suu Kyi to be freed in November: witn...
- Human Rights 'Deteriorating' in Burma: HRW
- US Seeks Ban on Importing Burmese Python
- Burma's Youth Take The Lead, We Should Follow
- US Not 'Unendingly Patient' with Burmese Junta
- More than 140 MPs call for investigation into crim...
- All Monks' Alliance urged to release two person wi...
- Invitation to BADA's 2010 ANNUAL MEETING
- ANTI-DICTATORSHIP PEOPLES’ FREEDOM MOVEMENT IN BURMA
- Holding camera or using Internet: New Enemies of t...
- Looking for an Election in Burma's Political Fog
- Karen Girl, 7, Raped and Killed: KWO
- Burmese Regime Privatizing to Retain Control of Re...
- Burmese American Women Alliance Annual Meeting and...
- Burmese-American Makes Court Appearance in Rangoon
- US renews hand to Myanmar
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January
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Burma: It can't wait 30 Days Campaign
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- Burma: It can't wait by Sheryl Crow-Aung San Suu Kyi
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- Burma: It can't wait by Kim Kardashian-Day 24
- Burma: It can't wait by Will Ferrell-Day 1
- Burma: It can't wait by Jim Carrey
- Burma: It can't wait by Sylvester Stallone-Day 21
- Burma: It can't wait by Steven Seagal Day 18
- Burma: It can't wait by Eva Longoria Parker- Day 16
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