Seeds for Justice

ဘောင်းဘီ

အခန်းထဲမှာ လူတွေမရှိဘူး
ကုလားထိုင်တွေ နေရာယူထားတယ်
ကုလားထိုင်တွေက ဘောင်းဘီ ဝတ်ထားတယ်
အခန်း ရှေ့မှာ တော့ ထဘီ ကို မုန်းကြောင်း စာတွေရေးထားတယ်
ထဘီ တချို့ က သံတိုင်ကြားထဲမှာ ထဘီတချို့က မီးဖိုထဲမှာ
ထဘီတွေက ချောင်ထဲမှာ တိတ်တိတ်လေး နေကြတယ်

ဘောင်းဘီတွေက တန်ခိုးရှိကြတယ်

လူတွေသေတဲ့အခါ ဘောင်းဘီ တွေကိုဖက်ပြီး ငိုကြွေးကြတယ်..
ဘောင်းဘီတွေ ကို လူတွေက လက်ခုပ်တီးကြတယ်
ဘောင်းဘီတွေ ကိုဖက်တွယ်ထားကြတယ်
ထဘီတွေ က ချောင်ထဲမှာ

ထဘီတွေက တန်ခိုး မရှိဘူး ထဘီတွေက တန်ခိုးကျစေတယ်
ထဘီ က လိင်ဖျော်ဖြေရေး အတွက် ဆိုပြီး နေရာတခု ထားထားတယ်
လိင်ဖျော်ဖြေရေး ထဘီ က လွဲရင် ကျန်တဲ့ ထဘီ တွေက လူမြင်ကွင်း မှာ မရှိကြဘူး..
လူတွေမမြင်ရဘူး
ပျောက်နေတယ်

တန်ခိုးရှင်တွေက ထဘီဝတ်လိုက်ရင် အလိုလို ကိုယ်ပျောက်သွားတယ်
အသံ လည်း မကြားရတော့ဘူး

ဘောင်းဘီတွေ အချင်းချင်း ရန်ဖြစ် နေကြတယ်
တကယ်တော့ မမြင်ရလို့ပါ
ထဘီတွေ လည်း တော်လှန်နေတာ

လူတွေ သေဆုံးတဲ့အခါ
ထဘီတွေ ဖက်ပြီ မငိုကြွေးကြဘူး

ထဘီတွေက ချောင်ထဲမှာ
ထဘီတွေကို ဖျောက်ထားကြတယ်

TMA

Our youtube channel has added a new song. Has there ever been justice by Ruthless
https://youtu.be/_4ETE9HzREU

Has There Ever Been Justice Myanmar freedom revolution never ceases to surprise us with its brilliant artistic expression. Here is a song that was written and sang by one of our beloved...

We are sorry for not posting in such a long time. From now on I would like to share academic activities related to Myanmar. Please keep in touch.

How Racist is your Engagement with Burma Studies? | FORSEA If you are genuinely interested in shaping a new field so that it is balanced and fully engages with all Burmese, then ask yourself, how racist is YOUR engagement.

Myanmar Pearl Industry is now being sanctioned by the US. Takasaki Myanmar which is now being raised as a big topic for injustice in Myanmar. Our Environmental Justice team has already documented Takasaki Myanmar violation against Indigenous people even before the coup. Please see EJ Atlas to read the details of the case.

ဒီဇင်ဘာကတည်းက တကာဆကီ မြန်မာ ကို ကျမတို့ တိုင်းရင်းသား အရေး ချိုးဖောက်ခြင်း သဘာဝပါတ်ဝန်းကျင် ကို တိုင်းရင်းသားများ ထံမှ လုယူခြင်း dispossession နဲ့ပါတ်သတ်ပြီး မတရားသော အဖွဲ့စည်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း document ထားပြီး သားပါ။ 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/sea-gypsies-of-myanmar-livelihoods-threatened-by-the-pearl-producing-companies

The “Sea Gypsies” of Myeik archipelago threatened by Pearl cultivation, Myanmar | EJAtlas Despite their timid behaviour, Salung people protest against Myanmar Tasaki Pearl Company's efforts to expand its operations on the islands of their last habitat in the Myeik archipelago.

Please see our colleague’s amazing work in Chile.

We are in solidarity with people in Chile who are fighting for their rights to breathe clean air and right to appreciate aesthetic value of landscape and nature.

We also oppose dictatorship’s written rules and legislation.

See below article for more information on sacrifice zones.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-environment-constitution-idUSKBN28W1CH

Intervención escénica anti-extractivista por vecinas de Quintero y Puchuncaví, Chile Creación a partir de las experiencias de personas que habitan este lugar catalogado como “zona de sacrificio”. Donde al menos 15 industrias intoxican y reproducen día a día el saqueo, la devastación y el desastre del progreso. Organiza: @teatroenmovimientocallejerx Dirección : @tere.titere Entrenamiento: Rens Veninga Vestuario: Pia Renee @pia_renee Música y voz en off: @bordeanimala Edición y montaje: @orl_rival Accionan: @znato @pia_renee @nanah_art_ @viejxchik @nefanda___ @jeca.gonzalez.barrera @barbaragonzalez.b @cuerp_onirik @bordeanimala @mercedesgonzalezromo A distancia: Dirección: Ximena Cañas @xime_killa Diseño: Lucia Valenzuela Guion: Evelyn Barra @multifaceticatierra #nomaszonasdesacrificio #quinteroypuchuncaví #antiextractivismo

you can now watch the song on YouTube
https://youtu.be/fqpQN69_lkA

Kabar Ma Kyay Buu in Spanish and English (Myanmar Revolution song) Support from Barcelona

Today is to raise awareness for the people who are displaced by the military attacks in ethnic region. They are running and hiding in the jungle. We wrote messages on the leaves 🍃 so that the 🌳 forest will hear and protect them!
We will endure this horrific moments with dignity and respect ✊

Can you sanction gems forever?
Having Gems and precious stones bring more pain to us than profits.
We want to initiate “ let’s leave the Gems in the land “ policy if we achieve our democratic government back!

Civil disobedience heroes/heroines. They were railway workers forced to moved out from their home for not working under the military council. They left with their few belongings.

Most of the detained public figures are not just pretty faces. They are volunteers, animal lovers, feminists, educators, and are important people who are positively changing the images of Burmese people. All these people are the forces of social transformation in Burma.

Flowers in the shoes symbolizing the people who marched for freedom but could never go home.
Be resilient everyone! We will march with our old and warned out combat boots to the end!

Today I received near 100 support/solidarity messages from my second hometown Nagoya Japan. I cried looking at all the messages. I cannot read them well because I am so emotional. The messages come from Japanese and ASEAN nationalities in Nagoya.

Thank you president of ASEAN Nagoya Club, the members and brothers and sisters from ASEAN. We will never forget your support during our darkest moments.

I will translate them into Burmese and share with them in better format soon.

Sincerely

My friends from Japan asked me how do people sustain to eat during crisis. This is one of community volunteer scheme. Food sharing for the neighborhood.
Free food for all in North Okkalapa a district in Yangon. 1800 hh were provided with food.

Credit to original uploader.

Resistance is important.
Self care is equally important.
Never forget to love and care yourself during this time of hardship
You are equally important as people who had become the stars in the universe.
Without you there will be no resistance
Without your strength we cannot resist
Sending lots of love and courage to the people fighting for freedom

Easter Egg Strike !!!!

လာမယ့် Sunday, 4th April က ကျွန်မ တို့ ခရစ်ယာန် ဘာသာဝင်တွေအတွက် သခင်ယေရှုရှင်ပြန်ထမြောက်သောနေ့ပါ။

ဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲများစွာဖြတ်ကျော်ပြီးနောက် တစ်ဖန်ပြန်လည်ရှင်သန်လာသလို ကျွန်​မ တို့မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကြီးရဲ့ Democracy လည်းပြန်လည်ရှင်သန်လာဖို့ရည်ရွယ်ပါတယ်။

ကြက်ဥတွေပေါ်မှာတော့ နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးနဲ့ပတ်သတ်တဲ့ စာတွေပုံတွေရေးခြယ်ထားမှာပါ။

ကြက်ဥတွေပေါ် စာလေးတွေပုံလေးတွေဆွဲပြီး Easter Strike လေးလုပ်ကြရအောင်တိုက်တွန်းပါတယ်နော် 😊

🌼🌺🌷🌹🏵🌸💐
Today is flower strike for Myanmar.
Flowers are placed at the bus stop for those who could never go home.
😔

Child Activism and current situation in Myanmar

“More than 30 children ranging in age from 5 to 17 were among at least 510 people killed by the military regime’s forces across Myanmar since Feb. 1”, according to Irrawaddy news.

In response to the worldwide criticism towards the Burmese military for murdering youth and children, the military claimed children or underaged, shall not be a part of protests, otherwise shall be shot in the head. Although witnesses reported that some of the children were short inside their home or within the premises of their homes.

Nonetheless, the question is what kind of army shoot young kids for protesting? Such existence is an embarrassment to all humanity.

Besides the direct impact of the violence, cases of miscarriages, stillborn, premature cases increased among mothers due to constant violence and threats.

No child should grow up discouraged to be a part of a protest or grow up in fear to change the world.

Be apart of the Myanmar people’s fight to remove the evil army. Help us bring justice for the army’s gruesome act towards unarmed civilians.

Below is the link to the stories of brave youths who had fought to death for liberty. (Warning for some disturbing images) the pictures of child activists are reposted from original websites.
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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/children-killed-myanmar-regimes-forces-since-feb-1.html

Brilliant comics on Our everyday heroes

We hiked the mountain today in solidarity with the people of Myanmar 🇲🇲
More power to the people

"Today's list of South Dagon casualties sent by the people"

Ward 53: 2 people (one injured)
18 turns - 9 people (bodies piled up)
Ward 56 - Up to 40 people (dead unknown)
Ward 57: One person was killed
72 ward - 6 dead (30 injured)
72 tents - 10 people (bodies not returned)
Ward 107 - 1 person (dead)

There are still shootings.

Ethnic minorities suffer most in this struggles. This is not a political conflict. It has become a massacre, a genocide.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-karen-idUSKBN2BJ0IZ

Myanmar army launches air strikes in Karen state, group says Myanmar army fighter jets launched air strikes on Saturday on a village near the Thai border in territory controlled by an armed ethnic group, the group said, as fears grow of civil war following last month's military coup.

Today was the “day of shame” as anti-coup protesters including underaged children were brutally murdered by the military.

Below is the link where you can upload your art work as tribute to the fallen heroes/heroines of Myanmar and those who are fighting for liberty.

https://www.threefingers.org/?fbclid=IwAR2C7f6phokwTEgBdiCIOd-fYDrlEj6jUYl3bWyxYOmOhxeX-846KjqLLh8

Raise Three Fingers for Democracy in Myanmar! Artists sharing art to spread awareness and will of the Myanmar people against the recent military coup.