Archive for the ‘Burma’ Category

org: Genocide Intervention Network

Blown away by Mark Hanis with the Genocide Intervention Network from the last panel I went to “Human Rights On and Off the Internet:
Social Networking“.  The network is “mobilizing a permanent anti-genocide constituency that lobbies our leaders for substantial action, and creates a political cost for those officials who fail to take these necessary action.”  [...]

UC Berkeley Human Rights Technology & New Media Conference

At the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center conference The Soul of the New Machine, Human Rights, Tech & New Media.  It started yesterday.  Full of people doing inspirational work for humans and in particular, people doing inspiration human work and including innovative technologies to help campaigns and actions.  I’m going to try to record my [...]

refugee school in georgia

Georgia School as a Laboratory for Getting Along

By WARREN ST. JOHN
Published: December 25, 2007
an article in the nytimes about a charter school in georgia focused on the education of refugees

Sis sent me the link. The story includes a video piece. I watched it with some Burmese speakers — they dug the [...]