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No Time for Dreams: Living in Burma under Military Rule
No Time for Dreams: Living in Burma under Military Rule By Carolyn Wakeman and San San Tin, Introduction by Emma Larkin has "SPECIAL ONLINE PRE-PUBLICATION DISCOUNT at $29.96 (25% Off).
It is going to be published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. .
Compelling images of cinnamon-robed monks confronting the guns and clubs of Burma's military junta outraged the world in September 2007 and San San Tin Inspired by the legacy of her father Ba Tin's struggle against British colonialism beginning in the 1930s, infuses her journey from school girl to journalist and, briefly, to businesswoman with an unbroken spirit of resistance.
Offering a compassionate insider's view of politics, culture, religion, and family during nearly half a century of unrelenting dictatorship, this riveting personal story traces an arc of decline to reveal the bitter fate of a once-prosperous and cosmopolitan society.
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Palo Alto City Council
Today at the Palo Alto city council building, BAWA will join many from the communities to push a resolution to the City Council to urge the city to officially denounce the Military Junta in Burma. Last year, the resolution made it through the Human Rights Comission and this time we hope to have it go all the way through the City Council and pass. Anyone is welcomed to come and support us!
City Hall Address: 250 Hamilton Ave.
General phone: 329-2100
Time – 6:30 pm
Cityofpaloalto.org
Council Chambers are on the first floor. Enter through the big doors and go through the lobby the chambers in back.
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