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Free Burma Day, Berkeley CA 8/10
- Subject: Free Burma Day, Berkeley CA 8/10
- From: jjerome@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 22:09:00
Bay Area Burma Roundtable
Press Release
Burma: The South Africa of the Nineties
August 1, 1996
For Immediate Release
For More Information,
Call Jane Jerome at 408/467-2721
The Bay Area Burma Roundtable, in cooperation with the
National Coalition for Corporate Withdrawal from Burma, invites
the general public to a day of seminars on the political situation in
the Southeast Asian nation of Burma, also known as Myanmar.
The conference will be held Saturday, August 10, on the fourth
floor of the University of California, Berkeleys Martin Luther King,
Jr. student union, located at Telegraph and Bancroft, from 9 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.
Workshop topics will cover the general political, environmental
and human rights issues, along with activist responses to these
wrongs, in the form of campus, local, national and international
organizing of shareholder resolutions and selective purchasing
laws, boycotts and other tactics to enhance the prospects for
peace and democracy in Burma, a country held hostage to the
violent whims of the ruling military regime, SLORC.
Speakers include experts living on the border with refugees,
academicians and grassroots lobbyists, members of the socially
responsible investment community and others well acquainted
with the broad range of issues confronting the peoples of Burma.
Burma is being called the South Africa of the 90s as concerned
activists have taken to implementing sanctions against the
repressive regime in response to Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel
Peace Prize laureate and leader of the National League for
Democracy, which won the 1990 elections whose results have
been disregarded by the countrys military dictatorship. Suu Kyi
has asked the international investment community to stay out of
Burma, as corporate involvement serves only to strengthen the
regime financially and underwrite its severe oppression of the
people in Burma, through forced labor, forcible relocation,
extrajudicial execution, torture and rape, campaigns against
ethnic minority groups and the silencing of dissent by banning
freedom of speech, association and the press.
Admission to the event is free and the public is welcome.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Bay Area Burma Roundtable
P.O. Box 612492
San Jose, CA 95161