[Shadow_Group] Fw: Updated email on November 9 Event

[shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca]

Friends,

Please forward this email to those who might be interested.  Those doing 
outreach, please also be sure that the NW Asian Weekly and International 
Examiner have this on their calendars, and also that their editors are 
aware.

You doubtless have heard that there was a coup last Monday in Burma, and 
that former Prime Minister (and head of Military Intelliegence) Gen. Khin 
Nyunt is being held under house arrest.  The process is entirely opaque, 
and some reports are coming out of a state of confusion among some army 
units upcountry.  It is hard to view this coup as a good sign, as the 
reigning trio of Gen. Than Shwe, Gen. Maung Aye and Lt. Gen. Soe Win are 
extreme hardliners.  But it certainly makes it hard for wishful thinkers 
or cynical manipulators to pretend that there is progress or even hope for 
progress in Burma under current military rule.

As above, please forward the message below (feel free to personalize it) 
far and wide.

Larry

  _____________________

We at the Seattle Burma Roundtable would like to personally invite you to a special event:


>From Piglets to Prosthetics: 10 Northwest Aid Groups on the Burma Border

You've heard of speed dating. Now get ready for speedy international relief. At the event, you'll share six intense minutes with each of ten non-profits/NGOs working in Burma and Thailand. Learn about the many ways these local global groups make a difference in the daily lives of Burmese refugees and people displaced by war.  Chime in. Trade tips. Make friends. Leave energized.

Tuesday Nov. 9, 6:30-8 pm
Suzzallo Library, UW main campus

DIRECTIONS:

MAP
Free. Refreshments. All welcome.

The event is also part of an opening reception for a special photo exhibit at  Suzallo Library November 2-24, featuring images from the Thai-Burma  Border by Seattle Times Photographer Tom Reese. (

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/burma/reese.html<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/burma/reese.html>)

The featured organizations include:


Clear Path International -- A Bainbridge Island based de-mining and mine education group group that has a project to make custom-fitted  prosthetic legs for land-mine victims trapped inside Burma. (

www.clearpathinternational.org<http://www.clearpathinternational.org/>)

Green Empowerment -- A Portland group that has outfitted 13 clinics  serving 40-50,000 internally displaced Burmese with solar power, and  has plans to equip another 11 clinics in 2005. (

www.greenempowerment.org/<http://www.greenempowerment.org/>)

Dr. Cynthia's Clinic -- A number of Seattle-based medical professionals continue to volunteer at this clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand, which is run by Dr. Cynthia Maung, winner of numerous international awards and  called "the Mother Teresa of the Thai-Burma border." (

http://faculty.washington.edu/kwangett/burma/<http://faculty.washington.edu/kwangett/burma/>)

World Aid, Inc. -- A Ballard-based non-profit that has for years gathered and shipped medical supplies and financial support for refugees and the internally displaced.

Social Action for Women (SAW) -- This Thailand-based group now has a representative in the Seattle area.  Mo Mo Aye has provided pre-natal and reproductive health training to the thousands of Burmese migrant women who work in Thai factories in Mae Sot for $1.25 per day. (

www.myfriend.org/saw/<http://www.myfriend.org/saw/>)

Free Burma Rangers -- Based in both Gig Harbor and on the Burma/Thai border, this group carries relief supplies deep inside Eastern Burma, as well as training and accompanying medics, dentists and doctors into high-risk areas where internally displaced people struggle to survive. (

www.freeburmarangers.org<http://www.freeburmarangers.org/>

/)

Save the Children USA -- With strong support from the Puget Sound community, Save supports micro-credit lending, scholarship opportunities for girls from disadvantaged families and child nutrition programs. (

www.savethechildren.org<http://www.savethechildren.org/>

/)

World Vision -- The Federal Way based NGO works both on the Thai-Burma border (providing AIDS education and fighting child sex trafficking) and inside Burma (doing micro-credit lending). (

www.wvi.org/wvi/home.htm<http://www.wvi.org/wvi/home.htm>)

Seattle Burma Roundtable -- A local grass-roots group working on public education that has also raised more than $10,000 to fund basic education for children of internally displaced communities inside Burma. (

http://students.washington.edu/burma/<http://students.washington.edu/burma/>)

Project Piglet - This project provides breeding piglets and pig feed to refugee and internally displaced families so they can develop a self-sustaining source of food and income.

We look forward to seeing you there!
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