Thacher Students Awaken!
Now Goddess Moon is showing her colours! Thacher students activating our hearts and minds! [Give Evan and crew another week or two, and we will have them all out organizing for the Planetwide Impeach Bush and Gore (I mean Cheney, you know, the Voldemorti) movement!]
Myanmar is pivotal in world consciousness. It never was called Burma, accept by the British Military which seized it in 1885 -- intent on the IMMENSE wealth of Jadeite in the mountain rainforests of the North. Somehow they came up with the silly name 'Burma', as a racial slur against the Bamar people, one of the 135 ethic groups, whose largest are the Kachin, the Kayah, the Kayin, the Chin, the Mon, the Bamar, the Rakhine, and the Shan.
http://myanmartravelinformation.com/mti-myanmar-people/index.htm
In 1999-2000 when I was a journalist and producer in New Zealand, we had mates in the jungle of Myanmar with the student guerillas there, reporting on the civil war. It was a relatively small population of western-guided students, against the military power of Myanmar. Many very sad stories which we put on the air, or published at Waikato University, and circulated worldwide on the internet.
My best University mate for ten years, Richard Deck is a Board Member of ARDA: http://www.asiademocracy.org which you can visit to find all the worldwide contemporary info on what the Myanmar 'pro-democracists' are doing.
For those who want to know much of the true history of Myanmar, written by two British Investigative sleuths Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, read their AMAZING book from about 2000 entitled "The Stone of Heaven: The Secret History of Imperial Green Jade."
There is a beautiful movie available too, of the geography and culture of contemporary Myanmar -- breathtaking rainforests and gold-foil-covered Buddhist temples everywhere.
** HERE ARE SOME MYANMAR PHOTO GALLERIES **
http://www.geogr.uni-goettingen.de/kus/pics/myan3.htm
http://www.molon.de/galleries/Myanmar/Yangon/TemplesPalaces
http://www.molon.de/galleries/Myanmar/Bagan/EarlyPeriodAnawratha
http://www.molon.de/galleries/Myanmar/LakeInle/Temples
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Myanmar
http://www.englander-workshops.com/gallery.php?gid=10
Myanmar has been able to preserve 150,000 square km of rainforests, and the natural population levels of species like the White Lemur. As far as I know an accomplishment without comparison in today's ravaged world. [Rainforests are still 1/4 of the land area of Myanmar!]
Myanmar is singularly the most forested in South-East Asia and is actively pursuing the prevention of the deforestation of rainforests which has occurred in most other parts of South-East Asia.
http://www.roadtomandalay.com/myanmar_burma.htm
If I can come up with the name of the movie, will post it here.
Until then, keep growing the knowing!
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Comments (4)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation_of_the_names_of_Burma/Myanmar
Comment #1 Posted by: LTOR | October 18, 2007 05:56 AM
His facts AWOL
Like good old Ed's
It seems someone
might need some meds
Millenium Rave
Comment #2 Posted by: phalarope | October 18, 2007 09:08 AM
student gorillas, you say?
would those be people practicing to be gorillas?
or gorillas enrolled in an educational program?
Comment #3 Posted by: kittykat | October 18, 2007 02:41 PM
Hey kitty...
thanx for the laff.
we need a "joke of the day" at this site.
Tyler/Evan??
Comment #4 Posted by: El Anonimo | October 18, 2007 03:56 PM