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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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Fundraising and Donation Updates
BAWA has collected over $14,000 dollars, and we all are very surprised and grateful to the donors. Our plans to send the money will be posted once we work out the kinks. As you know, getting aid into Burma is difficult mainly because we are wary of the government seizing the money as it has done to the UN. We have reports from the inside of soldiers seizing food and supplies passed out by private citizens and intercepting aid money that comes into the country through alternative means. BAWA is carefully making plans to get the donations into the country with little notice as possible. As of now, we have many people inside Burma awaiting for the money to use, and people trustworthy enough to carry and are also least likely to be under suspicion by government officials. The inviduals who fit this categories are usually monks (hopefully). Nothing is solid as of this moment.
We will post more information once the plans are decided, and more detailed information once the money is inside for the security of those who are carrying it in and accepting it.
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