6.12 events list
We have many of these in the calendar as individual events but far from all of them.
Details for each in the below thread & All day event entry in the calendar. Thanks to
@finnlau_cd
for posting them in FB.
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June 4th commemoration events!
We have added a few of the June 4th commemorations already to the calendar but just came across this list that have even more than we had seen so far. Given there are so many we have added this list into the "all day entry"
New Calendar event!
Protest, Bangkok 7th Aug 14:00 local time.
Looks like our Thai Friends have a few protests planned for this week. This one in Bangkok from the monument to the palace!
Stay strong Friends!
#ม็อบ7สิงหา
#เยาวชนปลดแอก
New Campaign!
🗓️1st Sept
Asia & Korea🕓4pm - 8pm (KST)
Europe🕐1pm - 5pm (CEST)
🗓️31st Aug
Americas🕖7pm - midnight (EST)
Show solidarity with & Amplify Korean Feminists speaking out against deepfake sex crimes & misogynistic violence by joining their hashtag campaign.
Details👇🏻
🧵<Global Hashtag Campaign Against Telegram Deepfake Sex Crimes>
The purpose of this campaign is to spread this Deepfake Sex crime in South Korea to the world.
Please join us. We must protect the victims. This campaign will take place in worldwide on 9/1.
(한국거는 밑에)
New event! (Short notice)
11th June 5pm JPN time
Shibuya Jingumae Park
Join
@JhkdaOrg
, HK diaspora & allies for rally 【日本は民主の最前線に 香港デモ4周年 デモ】"Japan on the Frontline of Democracy: Hong Kong Democracy movement 4th Anniversary"
It's been a year since we got started on this project. So we gonna take a little time to look at what we've done.
So far we have added 1078 events into the
#MilkTeaAlliance
calendar from July 2021 till end Aug 2022 (there are a few beyond that but mainly recurring ones)
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New week begins
#MilkTeaAlliance
& our events summary🧵is here
To kick it off some pictures from Bangkok Pride where allies remembered Bung & stood in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Myanmar, Ukraine & more
Pics crd:
@prachatai_en
@lattapoljir
&
@Cephalopodophil
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Well the weekend passed in a flash
#milkTeaAlliance
Some of our team spent it talking to allies & working on something else...
That something else is preparing from the next UN Credentials committee campaign. It's already started... sign the petition!
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New Event!
17th April 8PM
Myanmar Allies inc
@bloodmoney22222
call for
Blackout strike: Blackout silence and loudest response. to commemorate the 168 people who were killed by the Junta airstrike in the morning of April 11 in Sagaing's Kanbalu township
New Campaign!
7th - 15th May
As part of the
@GMSR22222
2nd Global call
@bloodmoney22222
are organising a whole raft of online actions to call for
#US_SanctionMOGE
!
We urge all
#MilkTeaAlliance
to raise up the voices & demands of the people of Myanmar & get involved!
🧵
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Today is Rohingya Genocide remembrance day but the genocide is not in the past, it is ongoing.
@mtealliance
issue statement in solidarity with the Rohingya & not only call on those with power to act but ask us to show material support as well.
Full doc:
New Event
11th - 19th March
Calling for allies to join
@bloodmoney22222
's call to action for another round of campaign to demand that USA
#SanctionMOGE
& PTT
#StopPaymentsToJunta
Details TBC but will include Photo, Comment Campaigns, Protests by Diaspora Groups & more!
Time for the
#milkteaalliance
to step up the pressure for our Myanmar friends. It's time to
#sanctionMOGE
Here is a petition that calls on EU (mainly France) & US to take more action. We also need to target
#uselessASEAN
as they are a blocker.
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New week is here
#MilkTeaAlliance
& so is the upcoming events 🧵
Today across Myanmar people again protested against the Junta & in remembrance of the 7th July 1962 Students Uprising!
The people's of Myanmar defiance is strong!
📷via
@KYITHAR95368969
📽️from
@abfsu_burma
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Well the weekend has passed swiftly
#MilkTeaAlliance
but the week holds more things to get stuck into. But 1st Myanmar Diaspora & Allies were out in force in Sydney, Aus. To demand that
@UN
credentials committee
#AcceptNUGRejectMilitary
(photos from )
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New Event(s) Trigger warning. Police Brutality.
3rd anniversary of 7.21 Yuen Long attack. Events Thread.
#NeverForget
#MobCopCollusion
This thread will cover known 7.21 commemoration events in the UK. 20th, 21st & 23rd
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New Campaign!!
18th Oct (Today!!) till 31st Oct!
@bloodmoney22222
@mtealliance
& many more friends pushing the
#doMoreSingapore
Campaign to demand that the gov't of Singapore take more action to enforce their commitments!
Full campaign pack here:
A new week is upon us & the🗓️is packed with events!
Many are related to Myanmar as its almost 3 years since the Military overthrew the government. Since then the Peoples of Myanmar have been fighting back!
The
#MilkTeaAlliance
still stands with our Myanmar friends & allies✊🏼
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Updated Time!
Protest, Bangkok 7th Aug 13:00 local time.
Our Thai Friends have a few protests planned!
This one in Bangkok from the monument to the palace!
Stay strong Friends!
#MilkTeaAlliance
#ม็อบ7สิงหา
#เยาวชนปลดแอก
The weekend is here
#MilkTeaAlliance
, so upcoming events🧵inc
Lot of news of allies on trial, jailed or charged for political reasons recently. Activists, Journalists or just people speaking out.... In Myanmar, Thailand, Hong Kong & beyond!
#FreeOurFriends
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Tis the weekend
#MilkteaAlliance
& we'd like to thank everyone whose run events this year 🙏🏼
We have added 940(?) events to the calendar this year & while the
#MilkTeaAlliance
tag isn't as prominent as it was, the sheer amount of activity has certainly kept us quite busy.
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New week dawns
#milkteaalliance
& the weeks upcoming events summary thread is here.
B4 we start "Bright future" group Myanmar Diaspora & allies protested the Tax on Myanmar workers overseas by the Junta (in Myanmar) in Bangkok today.
Video from
@JiPaTaBook
With the attacks across Myanmar increasing both in number & brutality. The
#MilkTeaAlliance
reaffirms it's support to the peoples of Myanmar & calls for more action to be taken against the Junta as requested by our friends & allies.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Didn't get round to our highlight threads last weekend for reasons. However we back & as you may have seen... There is A LOT happening this weekend
#milkteaalliance
so we just gonna get straight into the weekend events summary thread...
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@sis2sisMM
📅 19th June
⏰ All day
For international Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
@sis2sisMM
call on allies to join their
#RedLipsSpeakTruthToPower
campaign to highlight the issue & to demand justice & end the culture of impunity!
The weekend is upon us
#milkteaalliance
& so therefore weekend event🧵incoming.
B4 that we want to add out small voice to the
@JusticeMyanmar
campaign calling on
@govsingapore
to stop enabling companies providing weapons & revenue to the Junta in Myanmar!
#DoMoreSingapore
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🔶 Press Conference 🔶
Ten months after the illegal coup attempt in
#Myanmar
,
@TotalEnergies
is still financing crimes against humanity''
Date: 1st December, 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place:Paris, French.
#BloodMoneyCampaignMM
New Campaign/Commemoration 6.12
12th June 6:12pm
Someone just DM us with this. Given the plan by HKSARG to apply for an injunction against "Glory to Hong Kong"
Get your local radio station to play Glory to Hong Kong On June 12th at 6:12pm.
New Event!
📅2nd July
⏰14:00 BKK
@thalugazzz
,Myanmar Diaspora & allies will stage demonstration in front of UN in Bangkok to support the pro-democracy movement against the Junta's coup attempt!
Join them in solidarity, raise up their voices! ✊🏼
This is on now!
Following yesterdays Court ruling... I imagine lots of things being discussed!
Solidarity with our Thai Friends and allies!
#ราษฎรstrikeback
#MilkTeaAlliance
Updated Event!
10th Aug. Bangkok, Thailand.
Our allies are planning another Protest to demand Prime minister Prayut leaves office due to corrupt & incompetent handling of the pandemic!
#ม็อบ10สิงหา #ประยุทธ์ออกไป
New event!
17th Nov 7pm Seoul
Session 2 hosted by Korean Civil Society in Support of Democracy in Myanmar This time with
@Hk88khMy
of
@PVamplify
&
@thinzashunleiyi
on the importance of civil society & solidarity ✊🏼
Reg:
Great to see
#MilkTeaAlliance
Trending.
Seeing Thai, Taiwan, Myanmar & more all going hard is amazing.
#TaiwanIsaCountry
#ไต้หวัน
Also this was funny and echo'd the very beginning with the
#nnevvy
incident 😉
It's the weekend
#milkteaalliance
There are quite a lot of events on this weekend. All the details of them are in the calendar & there are a large number not individually listed but that are in the "Tiananmen square 1989 massacre commemoration" entry.
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The
#milkteaalliance
Friends of Myanmar group &
@bloodmoney22222
urge
@POTUS
to take decisive action & finally
#US_SanctionMOGE
The cost to the US & US corps is fairly minimal but the impact on the Junta's ability to fund its abuses against the peoples of Myanmar significant!
Tis the weekend so upcoming events 🧵incoming.
It's
#TibetanNationalUprisingDay
today.
Solidarity with our friends & allies in the Tibetan movement, whose struggle & desire for for freedom & independence is strong.
All across the world Tibetan's & allies have said
#FreeTibet
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Upcoming events 🧵is here
Reminder that we have a calendar with the events in (👀next post)
5 years ago there was 2nd? biggest march in Hong Kong's protests, it was the 11th week of mass mobilisation. 1.7 million marched.
Most are still there, navigating the oppression
#FreeHK
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New event!
🗓️13th April
🕑2pm Pacific
Uyghur diaspora & allies hold
#BoycottShien
protest in Vancouver! at 804 Granville Street.
There will also be an info pop-up!
Hi, dear friends in Vancouver,Please join our protest on April 13th, at 2:00 pm, at 804 Granville Street The pop-up will run over four days from April 11 to 14 at 804 Granville St., near Robson Street, in the Granville Entertainment District.
#BoyCottShein
The
#MilkTeaAlliance
Friends of Myanmar group have released a statement on the Sham elections being planned by the Myanmar Junta calling on
@ASEAN
other regional neighbours & the rest of the international community not to give it any credence.
It has been 2 years since we 1st launched this project.
So far we have 2306 events highlighted & added to the calendar (inc the ones coming up in Aug but there are a few beyond that)....
Hello world. This is a project in it's early stages to build an open access calendar to help promote
#MilkTeaAlliance
events, campaigns, protests and fundraisers. If you want your thing added to the calendar please just tag us.
(Calendar is under construction)
New event!
📅8th Aug
⏰9:30am PH time
Join Burma Solidarity Philippines to Commemorate the 34th year since 8888 Uprising in Myanmar & to show solidarity with the resistance against coup & note the 56th anniversary of the founding of ASEAN (who should be doing more!)
Event update:
Panel announcement for the
@peoplesoldiers
General's feared Sunday discussion! 10am Myanmar time. On various Facebook channels.
@thinzashunleiyi
is back moderating. On the panel are
@DrTunMyint
, Cpt Nyi Thunta & Mrs Nan Thwal.
For our Sunday discussion tomorrow at 10:00 am, we will have Prof. Tun Myint (Professor of Political Science at Carleton College) speak with us about issues of transitional justice & how soldiers can break away from the military.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#PeopleSoldiers
Tis the weekend
#milkteaalliance
for many the weekend will be a time of celebration & holiday but also many friends & allies they will be behind bars for speaking up, for fighting against authoritarian regimes & wanting justice & human rights
Art by
@monkmonkii
#FreeOurFriends
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New Event!
16th June Midday BST
Myanmar Diaspora & allies hold protest to demand that ASEAN humanitarian assistance is not channelled through the Junta in Myanmar!
#NeverForget
Tiananmen Square Massacre!
(Events🧵)
There will be many events to commemorate the massacre & suppression of students & workers in and around Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989.
but before we get into them we wanted to highlight some commentary, background & such
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We join our allies in saying that Kids shouldn't be imprisoned for speaking out. Yok is only 15 but detained facing a Lèse-majesté (112) charge.
Sign the Petition:
Share the case details:
#freeOurFriends
#save
หยก
#MilkTeaAlliance
Well the week is upon us
#MilkTeaAlliance
& the weekend saw incredible protests happening in China & some of the solidarity that has sprung up across the globe for those protesting. Solidarity actions in London, Amsterdam, Japan & even in HK.
Raise up their voices!
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Our Allies & Friends in Thailand are facing a bail hearing tomorrow related to 112 charges.
We of the
#MilkTeaAlliance
demand their release! Denial of bail should not be used as a tool of oppression!
Solidarity with our Thai friends!
#ยกเลิก112
#ม็อบ23ธันวา64
#FreeOurFriends
Tis weekend
#MilkTeaAlliance
but seeing the brutality of the Thai police on the protesters has been hard. Seeing the cops fire rubber bullets at head height taking peoples sight makes us furious & as HKers commemorate the siege of Poly U & those lost that common pain hits hard
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New event!
🗓️7th Sept
🕓16:00 JPN time
feministchina_jp hold protest in Toyko in solidarity with Korean Feminists fighting against spy cameras, deepfake, and misogynistic culture.
Outside the Korean Embassy!
#딥페이크_엄벌하라
Details:
Solidarity demonstration against 'deepfakes' illegal synthetic sex crimes and digital sex crimes held in Japan in solidarity with Korean women
Date: September 7, 2024
Location: In front of the Korean Embassy in Tokyo
Please see the account below for details @ FeministChinaJP
The weekend is arriving
#milkteaalliance
& the upcoming events🧵is here
It is the 4th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Poly U & a reminder that many HKers are in jail for speaking out in 2019. But also that the struggle isn't over! W/ protests this week in the US!
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New event!
2nd July 19:00 CET
United Punk Solidarity with a film showing "Padauk: Myanmar Spring" & Punk night in support of allies in the resistance in Myanmar!
As we were writing this thread news broke that at the Asia Rugby 7's final in Korea, "Glory to Hong Kong" was played instead of the national anthem by "accident".
Huge thanks to whomever made that mistake, will buy you a beer ✊🏼
#GloryToHongKong
#standwithhongkong
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Busy weekend
#MilkTeaAlliance
! Great to see friends & allies out in many places.
Two that particularly caught the eye were:
@hkladyliberty
& friends singing Glory to HK in Japan (Left)
&
@thalugazzz
& other Thai allies in BKK (Right)
Weeks upcoming events thread below...
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Well happy new Gregorian New Year y'all, Time for a short summary 🧵 of what is coming up this week. B4 we begin though, got to mention the protest on Lion Rock in Hong Kong that happened. A call to
#FreeHongKong
&
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
amazing to see!
Photos from
@hkfp
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Well it's the weekend
#milkTeaAlliance
, the Events 🧵is inc but Today marks 3 years since the NSL was imposed on Hong Kong by the CCP. Since many allies have been arrested or jailed
We still
#StandWithHongKong
against the tyranny!
我哋真係好撚鐘意香港
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C: 我哋真係好撚鐘意香港
E: We really f*cking love Hong Kong.
Slogan was born the day NSL came into force - words which explains, as if it needs explaining, why HKers did what they did, why we have resisted for so long: it's all for love of our home.
Source: TG (Jul 20)
Its the weekend
#MilkTeaAlliance
& it is packed. Event summary 🧵inc
but 1st
#ตะวันแบม were hospitalised today on the 44th day of their hunger strike with renal failure. 😭
Their determination & sacrifice in this fight is incredible. Please support🙏🏻
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New Event:
Sept 19th 2pm Bangkok time.
Asoke intersection Bangkok
Thai friends remember 15 years of military dominance of their politics. From 2006 to today the military have overshadowed (or overthrown) the government. Our friends want freedom.
#15
ปีแล้วนะไอ้สัส
#ม็อบ19กันยา
5 years ago today 2 million+1 Hong Kongers marched demanding complete withdrawal of the Extradition Bill, protest against police brutality on 6.12 & to remember Leung Ling-kit, who fell to his death the previous day.📷from
@FY4Chan
&
@CindyWan19
Weeks upcoming events🧵below
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The weekend passes fast.
You know WHY the weekend exists? Cause workers fought for it.
Fighting to ensure that workers are paid decently, not exploited & have rights is a
#MilkTeaAlliance
wide issue as seen in this upcoming events 🧵
#MayDay2023
is almost here! Solidarity✊🏼
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New Event! STRIKE!
20th October, Korea!
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) are striking!
They have been an ally to the
#MilkTeaAlliance
Time to stand with them and raise up their voices!
More info:
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New event!
📅25th
⏰12:30pm Eastern time
Rally to commemorate "1st Anniversary of Urumqi Fire & White Paper Movement" to demand Freeing Prisoners of Conscience & Stop Racial genocide!
In NYC!
In addition to the atrocity crimes, last Nov, PRC’s Zero Covid restrictions killed 44
#Uyghurs
including children and entire family were burned alive. Everyday since, I hear their cries and plea while fire catching the building.
Join us to resists & protest this sat in New York
We hope this little project has helped raise awareness of different groups & causes as that is what it is there for.
Please let us know if it's been useful to you & please keep sending us events.
Add oil, Drink water & you will win
#milkteaalliance
Look after each other 🙏🏼
/end
New Event!
16th Oct 11am- 3pm
Beaconsfield Park, Solcan Street, Vancouver Canada.
Burmese Action Group Vancouver Food & Fundraising!
Get some amazing Burmese food. Pop up! (Order in advance!)
h/t
@meemalee
for tipping us off on this one!
New Event!
1st Oct 4pm BKK Time
"Enough for 8 years Prayut" Thai allies
@daodin_commoner
@Thalufah
@theratsadon
@ThammasatUFTD
rally in response to Constitutional Courts decision to allow Prayut to continue as Prime Minister
#ราษฎร
#ประยุทธ์ออกไป
#พอกันที8ปีประยุทธ์
#นายกเถื่อน
New Event!
Sat 28th Aug 3pm to 10pm UK time
Fundraiser for Myanmar.
Enfield Grammar School market place (Enfield) Middlesex, EN2 6AQ
hosted by Ei Ko & Lin Pa Pa
New Campaign!
1st Oct -31st Oct!
#Revotober
Myanmar artists & allies from across the
#MilkTeaAlliance
Using their skills to raise up the situation in Myanmar through art.
Seem some incredibly inspiring stuff so far.
Go check it out & if you can join in.
Well Tis the weekend
#MilkTeaAlliance
& its a busy one
but b4 we get into the events thread
To all the women leading, fighting, educating, standing up for their rights in & of Myanmar, Thailand, Hong Kong, Palestine, Rojava, Tibet & so many other places.
Thank you✊🏻
#IWD2024
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📢 Join the Myanmar People's Summit on March 4 2024 in support of
#civilianrule
&
#democracy
in
#Myanmar
. Hear from esteemed speakers & be part of history as we launch the Myanmar People’s Summit Statement 2024. Register now, free in Melbourne & online
#MilkTeaAlliance
FoM join the call for cancelation of 1.5 track summit The 1.5 track Talks on Myanmar are the outgoing Thai Governments attempt to buy more time for the illegal Junta in Myanmar. The NUG are not invited, so it cannot be a path forward
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Busy few days! Thai friends & allies been out with banner protests! to remember the 8888 uprising in Myanmar, against the dissolution of MFP & in solidarity with Palestine. Also a Thai protest guard got released.
Nice way to begin the weeks event 🧵
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We join
@mtealliance
@MilkTeaTHA
& many others in paying tribute to "Bung" Netiporn Sanesangkhom & sending our condolences
We stand in solidarity with our Thai allies & Friends in their continuing struggle for justice, for freedom of speech & the freeing of political prisoners!
New week is upon us
#milkteaalliance
& our upcoming events thread is here! (sorry we missed Friday's, small team things happen)
b4 we begin, important statement from our friends in
@mtealliance
on Pride month. (Short version in pics, full version quoted)
In solidarity 🏳️🌈
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As pride month draws to an end, a reminder that the struggle doesn't stop, there are still many battles to fight to get basic rights & equality for our LGBTQIA+ siblings. Both within our struggles/movements & in wider society.
In solidarity always🏳️🌈✊🏽
🔗:
New Event!
Oct 6th, 14:00 Bangkok Time.
45th anniversary of the 6th October Massacre Memorial Lecture. w/
@nathanlawkc
Intro by
@NetiwitC
Hosted by
@sgcu_chula
on their FB page:
#ตุลารำลึก
#6
ตุลา
ชวนฟังปาฐกถาพิเศษที่เน้นย้ำถึงความสำคัญของการยืนหยัดสนับสนุนและต่อสู้ร่วมกันของประชาชนข้ามประเทศ
.
ในหัวข้อ “
#MilkTeaAlliance
: A New Age of Solidarity for a Democratic Society”
.
โดย Nathan Law (
@nathanlawkc
)
นักกิจกรรมและอดีตสมาชิกสภานิติบัญญัติฮ่องกง
#ตุลารำลึก
#6
ตุลา
Well it's the Weekend
#MilkTeaAlliance
& its really packed.
Sadly got to start noting that Article 23 Security Law was enacted in Hong Kong. Another draconian piece of legislation that suppresses freedoms even further🤬
Read this from
@HKLabourRights
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New event!
🗓️17th April
Allies from Myanmar will hold a "Paper plane strike" globally to mark the Pazi Gyi airstrike massacre, to remember those displaced & killed by Junta air strikes & to call for sanctions on jet fuel!
#BanJetFuelExportsToMM
#IfTheyCantFlyTheyCantBomb
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New event!
📅10th June
⏰14:00 Taiwan Time
HKer & allies in Taiwan hold "Rally for Kong Kong's Democracy" In Taipei.
Sitting between 6.9 & 6.12 this is a timely event!
New week
#MilkTeaAlliance
... upcoming events thread is here.
1st however with the APEC summit coming
@bloodmoney22222
& many other groups got campaigns going &
#No2APEC
protests happening NOW!
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New week is upon us
#MilkTeaAlliance
& our upcoming events🧵is here.
b4 we begin
Today marks the 65th anniversary of Tibetan uprising day. Tibetan's across the globe turned out to march!
Read more about it here:
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today marks the 65th anniversary of tibetan uprising day
while china may pay lip service in support of the right to armed resistance on the international stage, in practice they do not allow the same "grace" for the colonised peoples of the many nations they occupy 1/6
The weekend is here
#MilkTeaAlliance
& the upcoming events thread is here.
1st we want to highlight this letter from over 400 orgs Demanding the
@UN
General Assembly take decisive action to hold the Junta in Myanmar accountable.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Week's upcoming events🧵is here
#milkteaalliance
Today is Rohingya Genocide Remembrance day & the genocide is ongoing, Rohingya & allies across the world have been marking the day in different ways, this msg & video from
@KoliFightsGBV
is a important one
#StandwithRohingya
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We,
#Rohingya
girls and women, brave and resilient, stand in defiance of the atrocities committed against us.
To those who turn a blind eye, your silence is a weapon against us. We will not be silenced.
Justice for the Rohingya is non-negotiable!
#25thAugust2024
#Rohingya
Well the weekend passed quickly
#MilkTeaAlliance
Our weekly events thread is inc but before we kick it off.
Today there was a massacre in the IDP camp Pinlaung Township & it is a horrific reminder what the peoples of Myanmar face.
TW graphic images
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[1/2] After carrying out airstrike & shelling the area around Nanningh village in southern Shan State's Pinlaung tsp at around 4 pm on March 11, junta troops raided Nanningh village & MASSACRED 3 monks & 30 civilians sheltering in the village monastery.
#2023Mar12Coup
tw // death
One year of attempted coup & the peoples of Myanmar have firmly & thoroughly rejected the Junta. We of the
#MilkTeaAlliance
recommit to standing with them in their fight. 💪🏼
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Weekly event 🧵inc,
But 1st 2 pics of the Asok intersection protest by Thai allies here & 2 beautiful illustration of it by
@yukanart
who says:
"Today we have come out together to confirm that. "Sovereignty belongs to the people" No one or any group of people take it away."
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Calendar fact:
According to the calendar between the start of the commemoration in Auckland & the end of the vigil in Seattle (28.5 hours) there was only 15 mins where a
#TiananmenSquareMassacre
remembrance event wasn't scheduled. That is some incredible solidarity.
#NeverForget
Tiananmen Square Massacre!
(Events🧵)
There will be many events to commemorate the massacre & suppression of students & workers in and around Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989.
but before we get into them we wanted to highlight some commentary, background & such
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In light of "Glory to Hong Kong" being banned earlier today... Defo worth checking this thread about protest songs of Hong Kong (And some from the wider
#MilkTeaAlliance
)
"Do you hear the people sing?"
@AllianceMilkTea
was asking about HK protest songs. So... here's a non exhaustive collection. HK folks, feel free to add others we may have missed!
And we apologize in advance for making you cry. 🥲
Source: TG (Sept 2019)
New Event!
📅8th Aug
⏰7:30 PM
Myanmar Diaspora & allies will be commemorating the 8888 uprising in Myanmar & expressing solidarity with the peoples of Myanmar in their current struggle against the Junta.
In Chiang Mai, Thailand
Cont'd Campaign:
📅15th -22nd Aug
@bloodmoney22222
have prepared a range of actions in support of the
#DoMoreSingapore
#JusticeForMyanmar
campaign!
Campaign plan in Eng & Burmese. range of in-person & online activities to join in with!
All details👇🏼
Another week another events summary 🧵
#milkteaalliance
Before we get to that, we saw that amongst the many people being unjustly convicted in HK, the 5 members of the speech therapists union were jailed on Friday for publishing kids books. 😠
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As
#Hongkong
lawyers, we find TWO things most startling about the speech therapists'
#sedition
convictions: 1) the court's abject refusal to protect fundamental rights; 2) the court's full adoption of the gov narrative.
Our statement:
Well a new week is here
#MilkTeaAlliance
& so is the upcoming events thread.
Will kick off with some pics of today's "Non-Binary Rising" March in BKK organised by
@hcnlth
&
@ASEANSOGIE
(Pics via
@thematterco
IG, by Asadawut Boonlitsak )
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