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Calendar for the #MilkTeaAlliance to try to help highlight events & Campaigns. Google calendar link in 2nd post in pinned thread.

Aug 16, 2024, 12 tweets

Weekend is here #MilkTeaAlliance & so is the events 🧵

3 years ago, Warit, who was 15 was shot near Din Daeng police station while participating in a pro-democracy demonstration.
He died 2 months later.

Today Thai allies protested for justice!
#ทวงความยุติธรรมให้วาฤทธิ์
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There are 9 events in the calendar this weekend. 2 exhibitions, 1 conference, 3 film events, 1 protest, 1 campaign & 1 talk.

All details can be found in the calendar as usual:

/2 calendar.google.com/calendar/embed…

Sat:
@MekongWatch, @NPOayus &
@LotusProject1 hold screenings of "Above & Below the ground"
&
Free Burma action committee - San Francisco weekly protest! In solidarity with the Spring revolution!
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@MekongWatch @NPOayus @LotusProject1 Sat & Sun:
@TheFortSpace hold 4 screenings of "Lost and hope", a feature film about the strength & resistance of the Karenni people!

Sun:
@EngageMedia kick-off "Digital rights in Asia-pacific 2024" conference.
&
@peoplesgoal2022 hold their Sunday talk show!
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@MekongWatch @NPOayus @LotusProject1 @TheFortSpace @EngageMedia @peoplesgoal2022 Ongoing:
Travel Unbound exhibition at the Hong-Gah Museum
&
@freedomfilmfesta continue their 20th annual human rights film festival!
&
Exhibition at
@baccnews "Humanitarian and peace: The Voice of hope amidst the knives"
&
Campaign: #StrikeforPalestineTH w/ @THforPalestine
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That's all the events we have for now. Thanks to those that sent us events or tagged us in them!

Few highlights b4 we close.

Earlier this year @breadrosesDSA @tempest_mag held a series of talks on Labor in China, these talks are now published 👇

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Then 255 orgs in Myanmar inc @bloodmoney22222 @GscbMyanmar @GSCN_Strike sent a congratulatory letter to the students & people of Bangladesh for their successful revolution, honoured the sacrifice of those that died. Worth a read.

/7 drive.google.com/file/d/1KDgW4B…



Then this piece by @farooq_ro is an important one:
"A genocide against the Rohingya is continuing to unfold with global inaction" speaks on the recent continued attacks on the Rohingya. Calls on the international community to protect them!


/8english.dvb.no/a-genocide-aga…

Yesterday @RayhanAsat & Min Kim released a new report w/@Yale Macmillan Center Genocide Studies Program examining the mass imprisonment of #uyghurs under China’s authoritarian regime. An important documentation of what is happening there.


/9 gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/…

Then lastly for 100 weeks activists in Chiang Mai have protested for the release political prisoners in Thailand 🫡

good piece highlighting their dedicated campaign in @prachatai_en

#FreeOurFriends


/10prachataienglish.com/node/11074

There is a lot going on, lots of injustice to fight but as we've said before there are a lot of people & groups fighting for a better future, u not alone in it all.
We are together, across borders, contexts & struggles.

Take care #milkteaalliance
In Love & solidarity

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