- Free Burma – Learn More – Get Active

Burma’s Struggle for Democracy:

The Saffron Revolution 

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007

7:00 pm

Pacific School of Religion

Mudd 100

1798 Scenic Avenue

Berkeley CA 94709

Join us for an evening with Nyunt Than, President and Co-Founder of the Burmese American Democratic Alliance (BADA) as he shares with us a short documentary film “Prayer of Peace: Relief & Resistance in Burma’s War Zones” (2007). 

Mr. Than was born and educated in Burma.  He left the country after the 1988 pro-democracy uprising and since 2001 has been advocating for democracy and freedom for Burma. 

The documentary follows ethnic front-line relief workers as they aid internally displaced people suffering under the Burma Army.  Focusing on a female medic and a pastor/human rights cameraman, the film reveals a people that have maintained their dignity and hope for peace despite the odds.  Filmed on relief missions with the Free Burma Rangers. 

Event sponsored by PANA and Seminarians to End War.

For more information on the event:

Rev. Deborah Lee,  dlee <at> psr.edu.

- Sweatshop-made crucifixes…. unsurprising, but sad

Emily writes, “see the article below…I’m speechless…”

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2007Crucifixes Made Under Horrific Sweatshop Conditions In China, Linked to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trinity Church in New York, And Nationally to the $4.63 Billion Association for Christian Retail

At a press conference today in front of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, released a 73 page report documenting the brutal sweatshop conditions under which crucifixes are made for Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity Church and the Association for Christian Retail at the Junxingye factory in Southern China.

To read the whole report, click here.

- An Instinct to Swarm

Emily recommends this article from the New York Times:

From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm
By CARL ZIMMER
Researchers are discovering simple rules that allow thousands of animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism. 

- One way to see Jesus

A friend, Esther Ho, passed on the link to this image. To read about the image, click here to visit the host blog by Greg Boyd.