Attention Students:
This is a serious matter that I am concerned with. I would like
to hear from people. It would be a good thing if UVM committed to the
Day of Actions against US Corporate support for the SLORC in Burma.
Please take a few minutes to read this.
Thanks, -g-
GREY LEE
SGA President 802/656-7736
B 156, Billings UVM Burlington, VT, 05405
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 20:07:13 -0400
From: Nick Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: National Student Actions, Oct 27
CALL FOR ACTIONS (OCTOBER 27, 1995)
National Student Action Day
U.S. CORPORATIONS OUT OF BURMA
One month from today (Friday, October 27, 1995), university student action
groups throughout the United States will initiate strategies nationally to
terminate U.S. corporate funding of the State Law and Order Restoration
Council (SLORC), Burma's military dictatorship.
Burma is a Southeast Asian nation of 40 million people held hostage at gunpoint
by SLORC armed criminals. The United Nations, Amnesty International, and
Human Rights Watch call SLORC a major human rights violator in the world.
Despite the recent release of Burma's popular democracy leader and 1991
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, (after six years of unlawful
detention), thousands of political prisoners remain in captivity. Aung San
Suu Kyi said: "I have been released. That is all. Nothing has
changed."
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently closed its
office in Rangoon after having failed to negotiate access to Burma's
detention centers with SLORC.
U.S. CORPORATIONS BANKROLL SLORC.
THEY MUST STOP.
We, Free Burma Coalition in the United States, demand immediate withdrawal
of U.S. Corporations such as the LA-based oil giant Unocal, Texaco, ARCO,
and PepsiCo from Burma unconditionally.
The Free Burma Bill ( #S1092) sponsored by Senator Mitch McConnell
(R-Kentucky) is
currently being considered at the level of the United States Congress after
having passed the U.S. Senate on September 21, 1995 as an amendment to the
Foreign Operations Appropriation Bill.
Therefore, we declare October 27, 1995 "National Student Action Day for a
Free Burma", in order to terminate U.S. Corporate funding of SLORC.
We invite you to join hands with us, Free Burma Coalition, in our fight
against corporate greed and injustice. The U.S. corporations are among the
top investors in Burma following Britain, France, Singapore, Thailand, and
Japan.
Already Harvard, Stanford, Wisconsin, UCLA, Georgetown, Washington,
Brandeis, Penn State, Columbia, Cornell, Berkeley, Colorado, Northwestern,
and many others have
committed to this October 27 National Student Action Day for a Free Burma.
Key contacts for further information:
Simon Billenness
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Larry Dohrs
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Htun Aung Gyaw
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Christina Fink
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Miriam Leibowitz
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John Peck
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Todd Price
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Adam Richards
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Marco Simon
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Douglas Steele
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Nick Thompson
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Coban Tun
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Tun Myint
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Cho Cho Win
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Zaw Oo
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Zar Ni
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>>(I)t has been my experience, in a lifetime of studying,
>>repressive societies, that dictators often delude themselves into
>>believing they have popular support, but that people often smile
>>not because they are happy, but because they are afraid.
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>>>From the Statement of Madeleine K. Albright
>> United Sates Ambassador to the United Nations
>> September 9, 1995
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(I)t has been my experience, in a lifetime of studying,
repressive societies, that dictators often delude themselves into
believing they have popular support, but that people often smile
not because they are happy, but because they are afraid.
>From the Statement of Madeleine K. Albright
United Sates Ambassador to the United Nations
September 9, 1995
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