Burma Out !! Comrades of the Olymp

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Subject: Burma Out !!  Comrades of the Olympiad.




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Subject: A must watch ITV documentary

UK gets first taste of story that will taint our image
 
Date: 10/08/99
 
By DEBRA JOPSON and LAUREN MARTIN
 
A confronting documentary by expatriate Australian John Pilger will
expose Aboriginal disadvantage to London ITV viewers later this
month in a foretaste of the international media drubbing we can expect
during the Olympics.
 
Called Welcome to Australia and also to be shown here on ABC
television on September 28, the program uses the tough struggle
experienced by Aboriginal sportspeople to examine broader issues of
poverty, racism and indigenous pride.

It is expected to sell to many other countries, Pilger said from
London last night.
 
"My films are usually sold to a list of 33 [networks] and already we
have a huge amount of interest. I have no doubt they will all pick it
up," he said.
> 
> International media visiting to report on the Olympics would want to
> report
> on indigenous conditions, and particularly if leaders like Mr
> Charles Perkins helped them to tour to remote communities, he said.
> 
> "For many it will be their first time in Australia and Sydney will
> bowl them
> over, but then they will look beyond Sydney," he said.
> 

Estimates of the number of journalists covering the Sydney Games range
from 17,000 to 30,000. The broadcast of the Games is
expected to attract a worldwide viewing audience of 3.5 billion.

> 
> The president of Sydney's Foreign Correspondents Association in
> Australia,
> Reuters bureau chief Ruth Pitchford, agreed that many
> visiting media workers planned to cover contentious race and ethnic
> issues
> next year. "Race issues, ethnic issues, they do seem to travel
> ... there's a craving for these stories,even complicated things like
> the Wik
> decision," she said.
> 
> Her predecessor as president of Sydney's Foreign Correspondents
> Association,
> Esther Blanks, said negative stories would be
> "unavoidable" and could have an economic impact as tourists were
> "turned
> off".
> 
> "It's impossible to explain to anybody in Germany why there isn't an
> apology" for the Aboriginal stolen generations, said Blanks, who is
> organising more than 600 journalists to cover the Games for German
> audiences.
> 
> Even "nice" stories about Aboriginal art could turn ugly when
> journalists
> travelled out and saw how the painters lived.
> 
> "Many of the journalists are really shocked," she said. "More than
> maybe
> people here, who grew up with it."
> 
> The BBC's long-time Australian correspondent, Red Harrison, said:
> "There's
> intense international interest."

Follow the appreciations of the Shan Democratic Union, 
film maker John Pilger,  HH the  Dalai Lama, The Free Burma 
Coalition, Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, Congresswoman 
Maxine Waters, parliamentarians, Socialist Workers' Party, 
Dr and rugby star JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix 
bassist Noel Redding, Abdullah Ibrahim, musicians,  All 
Burma Students Democratic Organisation, All Burma Students 
Democratic Front, and numerous others.  

             Support a REAL war on drugs : Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!

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Mihra was founded during UN50 to advance and protect 
creators rights in a cultural market monopolised by the 
recording  / publishing Grand Cartel. Mihra's roots are in 
music and anti-racism and was first in line in calling for a 
sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney 2000 Olympic 
Games.

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