Into The Current: Burma's Political Prisoners - Wednesday(04/04/2012) @8:00pm
Tim Aye-Hardy
Please join us for a screening of "Into The Current: Burma's Political
Prisoners" (www.intothecurrent.org) on Wednesday(04/04/2012). The
screening will be followed by an engaging conversation with former
political prisoner and recipient of the Human Rights Defender Award
and the Human Rights Watch Alison de Forges Award Ko Bo Kyi.
Into the Current takes the viewer into the darkest corners of Burma’s
massive system of repression. The ordeal of political prisoners like
Ko Bo Kyi illuminates the suppression of democracy activists through
imprisonment, torture and isolation, but more importantly, the
resolute commitment they embody for a people long denied their
freedom.
There is no better homage to the desire for a positive future for
Burma than the stories this documentary presents. Burma’s long
struggle for freedom will never truly begin until all political
prisoners are freed, the culture of impunity challenged, and basic
freedoms are granted to all. Into the Current illustrates the evils of
military dictatorship with compassion, historical depth, and powerful
visual evidence of past and ongoing repression. Yet in the courage of
the dissidents profiled the effect of watching Into the Current is to
come away inspired by their commitment to transform their country into
a free society, a struggle we must all support and, in the end, they
will win.
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 4, 2012 @8:00-9:30pm
Location: The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA),
Columbia University (420 West 118th Street, Room # 407, NYC 10027)
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/322997667755079
Thanks,
Tim Aye-Hardy (တင္ေမာင္ေအး)
Director of Outreach | Inaugural Carl Wilkens Fellow
Burma Global Action Network (www.Burma-Network.com)
http://Twitter.com/BGAN | www.Facebook.com/BurmaGlobalActionNetwork
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“The worth of the individual human being is the most unique and
precious of all our assets and must be the beginning and end of all
our efforts. Governments, systems, ideologies and institutions come
and go, but humanity remains.”
- U Thant, UN Secretary-General (1961-1971)