MTV will premiere "Get Up, Stand Up

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Subject: MTV will premiere "Get Up, Stand Up" Human Rights Special:Burma's Ma  Thida

Thursday March 20 1:12 PM EDT 

MTV will premiere "Get Up, Stand Up" Human Rights Special
March 26 at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT)

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 20, 1997--MTV: Music Television will
premiere a half
hour special on human rights, "Get Up, Stand Up" on March 26 at 8:30 p.m.
(ET/PT). 

Hosted by MTV's News Reporter, Serena Aschtul, the special profiles this
year's Reebok Human Rights
Awards recipients, takes a look at human rights issues around the world, and
discusses ways young
people can get involved. Also included are interviews with Michael Stipe,
Peter Gabriel and other
celebrities discussing human rights awareness. 

"Get Up, Stand Up" focuses on the recipients of the annual Reebok Human
Rights Awards which honors
young men and women, under the age of 30 from around the world, for the good
work they do in the
field of human rights. 

This year's recipients include: 

Julie Su, an American attorney who came to the aid of 72 Thai garment
workers found imprisoned in an
El Monte, Calif. sweatshop. 

Jesus Teco Osorio from Guatemala who is pressing his government to
compensate villagers for the land
and goods they lost after government soldiers executed 177 women and
children from his village of Rio
Negro. 

Innocent Chukwuma from Nigeria who campaigns against oppressive policies
instituted by the military
government. He pioneered a program to document and publicize police
brutality and developed a sensitivity
training program for police. 

Dr. Ma Thida from Burma is currently a prisoner of conscience. She was
sentenced to 20 years in prison
for treating injured protestors and handing out pro-democracy pamphlets. 

The youngest recipient is thirteen years old, Craig Kielburger from Canada
who was honored for his Free
The Children world-wide organization which educates the public about child
labor. He was inspired to
start his own movement after reading about 1994 recipient, Iqbal Masih.
Iqbal was Craig's age when he
started a movement in Pakistan to protect the rights of children in
servitude to carpet manufacturers. 

Also included are interviews by Michael Stipe and Peter Gabriel who talk
about the importance of getting
involved. Other celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Blair
Underwood, Lauren Holly,
Jonathan Silverman, Andrew Shue, Ed Kowalczyk of the band Live and Frank
Thomas of the Chicago
White Sox talk about what human rights mean to them. 

MTV NETWORKS, a unit of Viacom Inc., owns and operates five cable television
programming services
-- MTV: Music Television, M2, VH1, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, and Nick at
Nite's TV Land -- all of
which are trademarks of MTV Networks.