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A Taste of Burma -- Burmese Benefit



Subject: A Taste of Burma -- Burmese Benefit Dinner, Cultural  Performance and Auction

A TASTE OF BURMA

Burmese Benefit Dinner
Cultural Performance
Auction

Date:   Saturday, January 22, 2000
Time:   6:00 PM
Place:  Unitarian Universalist Church of Flint
Cost:   Adult, $25
        Student/Senior, $20
        Child, $15

This gala event will include a full-course dinner of delicious and authentic
Burmese dishes, classical Burmese music, traditional cultural performances, and
a spirited auction of Burmese arts and other choice items.  All proceeds will
benefit Burmese students and refugees.

After the military's bloody crackdown on the 1988 uprising in Burma, thousands
of students fled to the borders.  Since then, the military junta has ruled
Burma with an iron hand, suppressing all opposition and abusing the people's
human rights.  The army is also carrying out vicious campaigns of ethnic
cleansing against the Shan, Karen, Mon and Karenni ethnic minorities.  There
are more than 100,000 refugees and students in Thailand and more than one
million people displaced inside Burma.  Most of these refugees suffer from
malaria and acute shortages of food, clothing, blankets, and medicine.  Each
year BRC­USA provides  thousands of dollars worth of relief supplies.

BRC-USA will also provide information about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi and the struggle for democracy in Burma, including up-dates on
various boycotts and campaigns taking place in the United States and around the
world.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Flint
2474 South Ballenger Highway
Flint, MI 48507-1301
810-232-4023

Located on the west side of Ballenger, a little south of Miller Road Road,
behind K-Mart Plaza.

For reservations, contact:
Burmese Relief Center­USA
2128 Missouri Avenue, Flint, MI 48506-3797
Tel:810-341-6960  ­  Fax:810-341-6989
brelief@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

*  There will be a Refugee Bazaar at the Church from 2:00 PM.  
On sale will be a wide variety of handicraft, much of it produced by refugees,
including handwoven items made on traditional backlooms.  

*  Continuous showing of documentary videos on the current situation in Burma,
2-6 PM.
Admission to the Bazaar and videos is FREE


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