Tag Archive for the term: burma

File this under creative resistance, ongoing in Canada since 2007:
Burma has been gripped by a brutal and oppressive military regime since 1962. Despite having democratically elected a government in 1990, the military arrested many MPs and did not allow this new government to take over, with the excuse that the constitution had not been [...]

Ottawa: Damning the Yin Ta Lai at One World Film Festival 2008
(A rare glimpse indigenous population and biodiversity, which are both threatened with extinction by the military regime’s plans to dam the Salween River)
Presented by Inter Pares
Time: 7:45 – 9:00pm
Date: Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
Place: Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St., Ottawa
Ottawa: Celebration of 20th [...]

I am not really sporty, as you might guess from the relentless blogging. What I respond to in sporting events is the surge of human passion that links them to a great music concert or to the feeling of producing a crazy good show or performing a play with a great cast- it’s electric. The [...]

This weekend coming up is POP Montreal and while we’re making plans, scribbling and circling in our programs and getting happily bombarded by emails and facebook invites for cool parties, we know we’re in a bubble of safety for freedom of expression. A festival like POP is a beautiful thing, it brings huge numbers of [...]