Lady Lady - new Aung San Suu Kyi song by Tiffany Wilson

http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/

Kyi May Kaung's cover feature article - Potemkin politics: Are Burma's reforms for real - fr Himal Southasian

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4842-potemkin-politics.html

How much difference does one poem make? by Kyi May Kaung in PeacexPeace

Dupont Circle Metro - Washington DC with lines by poet Walt Whitman - who went alone during American Civil War to comfort wounded and dying soldiers.

Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung



http://www.peacexpeace.org/2011/10/how-much-difference-does-one-poem-make/

International scholarships, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

http://sydney.edu.au/international/international_students.shtml

Global Justice Center criticizes International Crisis Group & Burma whitewash policies

http://www.globaljusticecenter.net/news-events/news/2011/ICGLetter.pdf

Burmese poet among 100,000 poets for change reading DC

Setting Sun - digitally enhanced photograph, Copyright Kyi May Kaung

Biggest poetry reading tomorrow - also in front of Burmese embassy
Friday, September 23, 2011 1:50 PM
From:
"Kyi May Kaung"
To:
"kyi may kaung"
Cc:
"kyi may kaung"

I will be reading in front of Burmese Embassy, including "Eskimo Paradise" which features Aung San Suu Kyi in the poem. This poem was in the Norton anthology.


100 Thousand Poets for Change DC: Poetry Walk of Shame

Saturday, September 24, 2011

11 am



Meet at the Embassy of Yemen

2319 Wyoming Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

Walking distance to Woodley Park & Dupont Circle Metro Stations on the Red Line

For more info: 202-787-5210, info@splitthisrock.org



Even while poets in 450 cities in 95 countries are organizing the largest poetry reading in history September 24, poets in too many countries around the world will be silent, out of fear for their safety.



Join Split This Rock and Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, as we give voice to some of those poets for one day.



We’ll take a short walk to the embassies of three countries -- Yemen, Burma, and Turkmenistan -- where citizens’ rights of free speech have been suppressed, where poets, writers, and other freedom lovers have been threatened, arrested, and murdered for their words and their activism. And we'll stand with the poets and writers of those few places where a few hints of openings are lighting the darkness.



As we stand in witness outside the embassies, we’ll read poems by poets from those nations so that they, too, may participate in 100 Thousand Poets for Change.



Gather at 11 am at the Yemeni Embassy, 2319 Wyoming Avenue, NW. It’s walking distance from the red line Metro, halfway between the Woodley Park and Dupont Circle stops.



100 Thousand Poets for Change is the brainchild of Bay Area poet and publisher Michael Rothenberg. Events planned for September 24 range from poetry and peace gatherings in strife-torn Kabul and Jalalabad to 20 collective poetic actions in Mexico City where poets, painters, filmmakers and musicians will spread the word of peace and non-violence throughout the city with day long readings and workshops.



There are over 270 events in the United States, 29 in India, 7 in Nigeria, 17 in Canada, 19 in Great Britain, 5 in China, with more being added each day.



All those involved are hoping, through their actions and events, to seize and redirect the political and social dialogue of the day and turn the narrative of civilization towards peace and sustainability.



100 Thousand Poets for Change

www.100TPC.org

walterblue@bigbridge.org







**

Sarah Browning

Director

Split This Rock

Artist Shepard Fairey creates new poster for film The Lady, about Aung San Suu Kyi

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/08/shepard-fairey-explains-his-new-poster-for-aung-san-suu-kyi-movie.html

Aung San Suu Kyi in Bagan - photos

http://www.signonsandiego.com/photos/2011/jul/05/405478/

Burmese in Burma wearing Don't mess with Texas sign

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_wrath_of_khan/5830350252/

Fort Wayne, Indiana Burmese learn about discrimination -

http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110610/NEWS/106100320

Mrs. Obama's new clothes

http://mrs-o.org/newdata/?currentPage=2

Two classics for all seasons -

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi recently called for papers on Federalism. Here are 2 never fail classics on basic principles.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=the+federalist+papers&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2-ytff-

The Federalist Papers

+

Charles Lindblom's Politics and Markets -

http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Markets-Political-Economic-Systems/dp/0465059589

which set me on a pol. sci. path.

Actually of course she knows it all already, but this will help cinch her ideas - main thing checks and balances and the supremacy of the market (test) with government control where it should control, but not where it should not.

Kyi May Kaung

VOA Chinese broadcasts may stop

http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/03/04/voice-of-america-journalists-protest-ending-of-voa-radio-to-china-part-four/

Dr Myint and Dr Kyi May Kaung cited on Wiki article on Dr Hla Myint

known as H. Myint - one of the founders (with Arthur Lewis)of Development Economics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hla_Myint

Dr. H. Myint advocated an open economy for Burma, and told me when I visited in Nov 2010 that he wished he had "pressed harder" with Ne Win when Taiwan liberalized, but I don't think anyone could have "pressed hard" with that dictator.

In fact according to family members, Saya Hla Myint was not even allowed to go inside Rangoon airport to see his mother, and had to talk to her while she was on the balcony from the tarmac.

I don't think anyone can persuade dictators to open up, we only think so.

Kyi May Kaung

Libyan Youth Movement

http://feb17.info/live-benghazi-video-feed-mohammed/

Demjanjuk convicted in Munich of Nazi war crimes -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_demjanjuk

Chin women's facial tattoos

http://bloodfaces.com/

Worms come out of the flesh - Rosett Report on VOA, Burma and Iran

http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/why_is_voice_of_america_speaki/

Burma's Billionaire - Forbes Magazine 2007

http://www.forbes.com/global/2007/0423/058.html

Article about Bin Ladin from Time magazine

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2068858-6,00.html

Re-posting - Dr. Kyi May Kaung addresses Senator Webb

Sr. General Than Shwe throwing rose petals at Gandhi's grave - from Internet.

http://burmadigest.info/2009/10/04/dr-kyi-may-kaung-addresses-senator-webb/

Commission of Inquiry Petition with 5,000+ signatures delivered to British Foreign Office

Mother's Day

Peonies in May -  Photo Copyright KMKaung

Council on American-Islamic Relations' statement on Bin Ladin death

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR):

"We join our fellow citizens in welcoming the announcement that Osama bin Laden has been eliminated as a threat to our nation and the world through the actions of American military personnel. ... Bin Laden never represented Muslims or Islam. In fact, in addition to the killing of thousands of Americans, he and Al Qaeda caused the deaths of countless Muslims worldwide. We also reiterate President Obama's clear statement tonight that the United States is not at war with Islam."

From CNN site

Locked in, tied up - Burma's disciplined democracy

http://www.burmapartnership.org/2011/04/locked-in-tied-up-burma%E2%80%99s-disciplined-democracy/

from Alt-ASEAN

the alternative ASEAN

Full text of Presdt Obama's statement announcing Bin Ladin's death - from White House website -

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/02/remarks-president-osama-bin-laden

Vietnamese Dragon Lady dies in Rome -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110427/ap_on_re_eu/obit_madame_nhu

I remember a Life magazine color spread of Madame Nhu and Mrs. Marcos in their national clothes, and the hoopla.

Burma after sanctions - from Dissident Voice

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/04/the-future-of-myanmar-without-sanctions/

myanmar korea soccer match - from internet

http://nimg.sulekha.com/sports/original700/myanmar-north-korea-soccer-2009-10-28-4-45-22.jpg

Rare World War II aircraft found by sonar in sea off UK

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110408/lf_nm_life/us_britain_warplane

Mostly regime apologists will meet at SAIS on Monday 11th in DC

http://uskoreainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Myanmar-and-the-Two-Koreas-Program-Agenda-FINAL.pdf

On International Crisis Group's Burma reports - Outrageously Optimistic by Maung Zarni.

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4383-outrageously-optimistic.html

Antibiotic resistant super bugs

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/antibiotic-superbugs-crkp-mrsa-risk

The London Review Cake Shop -

An apple pie from O'Hare Airport in Chicago, dressed up on my plate from China - Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/pages.php?pageid=4

As our dear Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, "I have been to Bristol" -- when she was recently named honorary convenor of a festival in Bristol "Next time I am in Bristol, I must go to the Festival."

Next time I am in London, I shall go to this cake shop.

R K Narayan's short story - Trail of the Green Blazer in London Review of Books -

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n11/rk-narayan/trail-of-the-green-blazer

RK Narayan was president of India, his wife Usha Narayan was born in Mandalay - translated Burmese short stories.

Kyi May Kaung

3 Burmese Poems, introduced and translated by Kyi May Kaung

http://vispoets.comhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif/index.php?showtopic=1380

The Formal Reception

I dress up
for one of life's
formal
receptions

clip on my head
one fall of false
fake hair

tame my unruly
tresses with
the spiked hairpin
of forbearance

let fall my
padeikthantara
fringe or bangs

add on two
boastful
bling bling
ear rings

then - for defense
cover myself with
my stole --

There -

I'm all dressed up

to go.

English translation copyright Kyi May Kaung
4-4-2011

Kyi May Kaung's Moulmein Riverfront poem in Counterpunch

http://counterpunch.org/poems01082010.html

So far 81 movers and shakers wish to donate 52 Merchant St. former US Embassy Rangoon to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/donate-52-merchant-st-rangoon-to-nldaung-san-suu-kyi/

Jesse Ventura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura

Libyan multiple rape victim fears for her life

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110405/ts_yblog_thecutline/alleged-libyan-rape-victim-iman-al-obeidi-breaks-through-to-the-international-press

Washington DC cherry blossoms peak - all photos copyright Kyi May Kaung

Metro stop Washington DC. metro is the underground and above ground railway/subway.



Jefferson Memorial - Thomas Jefferson was one of the founding fathers of the United States and main author of the Declaration of Independence - he lent his name to Jeffersonian Democracy.

Burma Soldier

BURMA SOLDIER - (in Burmese) JOIN THE CLANDESTINE RELEASE INTO BURMA from BURMA SOLDIER on Vimeo.

Re-posting - from 07 Saffron Revolution, Burma - interesting in light of current intervention in Libya -

Vajrapani, Buddha's bodyguard as a Greek god Hercules.
From Internet.



http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/27043/v0001/kalw.download.akamai.com/27043/YourCall/100107yc.mp3

Mother Rape

Mother Rape

Mother Rape

Mother Rape

by Kyi May Kaung

All the trees are gone

to cook someone’s dinner

or turned into guns —

the orchids are torn from the trees

clinging with every ounce

of their being, taking bark with them.

"Sha! Sha!" or "Kill! Kill!" The war cry during the Boxer Rebellion in China. Acrylic on paper, 12x18", copyright Kyi May Kaung.

အလိုုမတူရွာတဲ့ မိခင္

တစံုုတေယာက္ ညစာ ခ်က္ျပဳတ္ဖိုု႕...

ဒါမွမဟုုတ္

ေသနတ္ အလက္မ်ားစြာ ထုုတ္လုုပ္ဖိုု႕..

သစ္ပင္ေတြ အားလံုုး .. ခုုတ္ ျပစ္ လိုုက္ၾကျပီ...။

သစ္ေခါက္ေတြ ကိုု ဆြဲခြါ..

သစ္ခြ အျမစ္ ေတြ မွာ ...

အင္အား ရွိသမ ွ်.. ကုုပ္ကပ္ ဖက္တြယ္ လ်က္...

စုုတ္ျပတ္..ေၾကမြ...ေျမခ ခဲ့ ျပီ။ 

ျမန္မာလိုု ျပန္ဆိုုသူ -  ေက

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This blog was created on 30 of March 2011 to present Burmese translation of Dr. Kyi May Kaung's writings. All these  works are intended to make a collection  book.