New week is here #MilkTeaAlliance & so is our events 🧵
B4 we begin highlight a win:
Last few days Malaysian netizens been pushing back against MCMC plans to implement DNS redirection as a tool to block websites, earlier today it was instructed not to!
Tues:
@anu_china opening their 2 day Taiwan program w/ Talk "Unseen Challenges: Indigenous Elders and Hidden Colonization in Taiwan's Aged Care"
Wed:
@anu_china continues w/ talk from @brianhioe "Echoes of History in Fiction: From the Sunflower to the Bluebird Movement
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@anu_china @brianhioe Wed cont'd:
More from @anu_china w/ film screening of And Miles To Go Before I Sleep 《九槍》& talks from Craig a. Smith & @FangYu_80168
Wed cont'd:
"LIMBO Festival Re-Imagination Work-in-Progress" Kicks off in Chiang Mai. Art, food, comedy, poetry reading, talks & music from artists, designers, researchers & scholars from Thailand & Myanmar.
w/ @anewburma & many more
Full details:
Thurs:
@unisontheunion & @HKLabourRights hold webinar "Health and safety rights webinar for Hong Kongers"
&
@citizenlab & @CLTCBerkeley hold webinar "Enhancing Cybersecurity and Resilience for Transnational Dissidents"
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Ongoing events:
ESEA Heritage Month in the UK organised by @besea_n has tons of events (to the extent we can't add them all).
check that out here:
@besea_n @ProtectRohingya That's all the events that we have for now. Thanks to @MTA_Museum @BefriaHongKong @SEAJunction & @mtealliance for sending events to highlight over the last week or so.
Then while @marcbbatac isn't a team member of this project, it would have never of happened w/o him at point of conception, so good to hear him talk about his journey into & through activism, his background & motivations on @InsightMyanmar
@marcbbatac @InsightMyanmar .@bloodmoney22222 released their bi-weekly analysis of Junta airstrikes.
Since that time frame, the Junta has carried out widespread airstrikes, including a number against IDP camps. Some detials in @EmilyFishbein11 thread:
@marcbbatac @InsightMyanmar @bloodmoney22222 @EmilyFishbein11 and that's all we have for now. Look after yourselves & each other #MilkTeaAlliance, keep supporting each other & doing what you can.
In love & solidarity.
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New week is here #MilkTeaAlliance so time for our upcoming events🧵
Yesterday HKers & allies across the world marked the 831 attack. Pics of London & Birmingham
& in Hong Kong itself some attempted to also mark the day. Read more from @RazvenHK
Weekend is here #MilkTeaAlliance & it's a busy one, events🧵follows:
1st, In the last couple of days we've seen Editors of StandNews convicted for sedition in Hong Kong, Journalists jailed by a military court in Myanmar & more.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
21 events in the calendar this weekend!
1 Exhibition, 1 commemoration date w/ 9 events, 1 festival, 1 cultural market, 3 film festivals/screenings, 2 protests, 1 cultural night, 1 talk & 1 online campaign!
Sat: TW Police violence
Aug 31st marks 5 years since the brutal police attack on Prince Edward street MTR station in Hong Kong.
It was the final blow to any trust HKers had with the police.
@NiaoCollective 🧵
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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Busy few days! Thai friends & allies been out with banner protests! to remember the 8888 uprising in Myanmar, against the dissolution of MFP & in solidarity with Palestine. Also a Thai protest guard got released.
Nice way to begin the weeks event 🧵
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Monday is Karen Martyr's day. The @knuhq will mark the day, remembering all those who've laid down their lives for the freedom and safety of Karen people and all ethnicities of Myanmar.
There are 9 events in the calendar this week, 1 exhibition, 2 community talks, 1 project presentation. 2 webinars, 1 letter submission, 1 film screening & a seminar.
All details can be found in the calendar as usual:
The weekend is here #MilkTeaAlliance & so the upcoming events🧵is here.
B4 we begin highlighting again our friends at @bloodmoney22222 calling for coordinated sanctions on Myanmar Economic Bank and Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise
@bloodmoney22222 There are 11 events in the calendar this weekend. 2 exhibitions, 1 book & craft fair, 1 commemoration date (7.21), 2 discussion spaces. 3 commemoration events, 1 protest & 1 talk.
@bloodmoney22222 Sat:
@AmnestyThailand hold "Activism Space 2024 1st time: Too dangerous to be yourself"
&
@China_Deviants & @Zephyr_Society
for discussion "Women in Social Movements: Bias and Invisible Labor"
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