 Upcoming Events (political & non-political) |
Demonstration for the Kachin Revolution Day
Protesting and urging Burma Military Junta to stop Myitsone Irrawaddy dam projects of military junta and Chinese company on this auspicious day.
On January 19, the Kachin community in the United Kingdom sent the signature campaign to the Chinese Embassy in London. They are to protest against the Myitsone dam project outside the Burmese Embassy in UK on February 5, the 49th Kachin Revolution Day, organizers said.
On the same day anti-dam demonstrators also plan to protest outside the Burmese Embassies in Japan and Australia, according to the London-based Kachin National Organization (KNO) which is organizing the movement.
Date: Friday 5th February
Time: 12:00 to 13:00
Venue: In front of the Burmese Military Regime's Embassy, 19A Charles Street Mayfair, London, W1J 5DX
For details on Kachinnews.com, please click here.
Demonstration for the Union Day in Burma
Demonstration for the 63rd Anniversary of Union Day in Burma
Date: Thursday 11th February (in lieu of 12th February)
Time: 12:00 to 13:00
Venue: In front of the Burmese Military Regime's Embassy, 19A Charles Street Mayfair, London, W1J 5DX
Karen New Year Celebration
Karen New Year Celebration orgainsed by the Karen Christian Fellowship
Date: Saturday 13th February
Time: 11:00 to 14:00
Venue: Woodberry Down Baptist Church, 190 Vartry Road, N15 6HA
Nearest Tube Station: Manor House Station (Picadilly Line)
Chin National Day Celebration
62nd anniversary of Chin National Day to be held in London (free entry)
The celebration will include a variety of programmes and traditional foods. Click here to watch invitation video clip on YouTube.
Date: Saturday 20th February
Time: 17:00 to 23:00
Venue: London Welsh Association, 157-163 Grays Inn Road WC1X 8UE
Mon National Day Celebration
63rd anniversary of Mon National Day to be held in London (free entry)
The programmes include auspicious Mon National Day Speeches, cultural dances, live music performance and a comedy show (Anyeik). A fund-raising Food Fayre will also be part of the supplement program for humanity needs in border areas of Burma.
Date: Saturday 6th March
Time: 17:00 to 23:00
Venue: Cardinal Wiseman HighSchool, 358 Greenford Road, Greenford UB6 9AN
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An 'Election' Burma's People Don't Need: by U Win Tin
Washington Post | September 9, 2009 The NLD is a reflection of Burmese society. We will not be cowed or coerced into participating in a fatally flawed political process that robs the Burmese people of the freedom for which we struggle. We stand ready to engage, but we are more than willing to continue our struggle for the democratic values that so many have given their lives and their freedom to achieve.
- အျပည့္အစံုသို႔ |
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FBPPN: ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တကမာၻလံုး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ |
There are over 2,100 political prisoners languishing in prisons all over Burma. Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now(FBPPN) aims to collect 888,888 signatures before 24 May 2009, the legal date that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should be released from house arrest. This is a united global campaign working with over a hundred groups from around the globe. The petition calls on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make it his personal priority to secure the release of all political prisoners in Burma, as the essential first step towards democracy in the country. Details »»
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Appeal from the Donation Point, UK (DP-UK) ေက်ာင္းသားတပ္မေတာ္အတြက္ ရန္ပံုေငြ |
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DP-UK is a fund-raising group based in the UK, and is dedicated to raise funds for comrades in the Thai-Burma border who have been experiencing hardship in the decades-long struggle. DP-UK would like to request political activists and sympathisers in the UK that it is our moral obligation to support them financially and keep them working on in their selfless fight for the freedom.
DP-UK has some items for sales, and would like to thank you for your support which will mean a lot for those who really need it. Details »» |
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“ကိုယ့္အသည္း ပ်ားတုပ္ေန ... ” (ဧရာ၀တီမွ ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပသည္။)
“ဘုန္းႀကီးအမႈ ရြာမပတ္နဲ႔” (ဧရာ၀တီမွ ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပသည္။)
“ေဘးကို ေဘးကို ဒီမွာေရကူးမလို႔ ...” (ဧရာ၀တီမွ ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပသည္။)
UN map showing worst-hit areas, based on satellite imagery [1.13MB]