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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mi Talanyan dreamed of reforming the education system, she instead joined the Mon state revolutionary force instead of risking being conscripted by the Junta To many youth forced to give up their dreams to fight for their freedom💔 Ep 3: when dreams meet war by Info Birmanie & Peoples Radio Myanmar

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The actions & lack of actions by @cornelluniversity.bsky.social in not protecting the survivor of a horrific rape & also shielding the perpetrators is so horrendous that we are blacklisting them & all events held there from this project Full notification here drive.google.com/file/d/1khUH...

It has been brought to our attention up a few times and we would be remiss to ignore it. Cornell University has again shown it is an unsafe institution for women.

We are just a small project that’s not even based in the US but we can’t ignore what has happened. Not only have Cornell failed to protect the survivor, they have shielded the perpetrators of a horrific gang rape.

In light of everything that has transpired we are taking the step of blacklisting Cornell University and taking the additional step of making it public. We know it’s not much but it is what is within our power to do in this situation.

What this means:
We will not highlight or promote events happening at Cornell University.
We will not highlight or promote events organised by Schools or departments or Cornell University Press at other locations.
We will not highlight nor promote book launches or talks about books published by Cornell University Press.

At this time we are not extending it to all faculty. So if a Cornell University faculty member is speaking elsewhere at an event organised by different org. We will still promote that (assuming we see it, it’s relevant etc).

We didn’t really want to take this step as over the years we have been in operation, Cornell East Asian Studies, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) & other orgs we appreciate have held a lot of informative events at or with Cornell University that we have learned a lot from & Cornell University Press has published books that have developed our understanding BUT the Cornell University’s actions (and lack of action) are beyond the pale. To these departments, parts of Cornell University, we urge you to use what institutional power / influence you have to push the administration to do better.

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New event! 📆7th Oct 🕗8pm Thailand Time @uscb4peace.bsky.social continue their "Burma's Breaking Points" webinar series with "War Mining & Survival in Kachin State" w/ Myo Aung, Julia & Seng Mai Details: www.instagram.com/p/Dd2TvbCGCA2 Zoom Reg: uusc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Burma's Breaking Points: War, Mining, and Survival in Kachin State
Date & Time
Oct 7, 2026 8pm Thailand Time

Description
Kachin State is one of Burma’s most devastated conflict zones, where renewed junta offensives, relentless airstrikes, and battles over strategic rare-earth mining areas have displaced thousands and deepened a severe humanitarian crisis. Communities face extreme shortages of food, healthcare, and education, while local actors strive to support civilians under constant threat of violence. This episode will examine the realities on the ground, the resilience of Kachin communities, and the urgent need for sustained international attention and support.

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We appriciate the Malaysia Gov’s efforts to address this longstanding issue, but I hope decisions will be based on facts and evidence. How significant is the actual security threat posed by refugees, and what percentage of crimes are committed by them?

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AFP | A regime airstrike on a market in western Myanmar killed 33 people on Monday and wounded 36 more, the Arakan Army, which controls the area, said in a statement. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-m...

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

28/9, at least 33 people were killed and approximately 40 injured in an airstrike on a civilian market in Kyauk Taw, Rakhine State. Today, Malaysia is reportedly set to deport 1,476 refugees as part of a plan to forcibly return around 5,000 Myanmar refugees.

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DVB English News @dvbenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Targeting a civilian area where there’s no ongoing conflict is a war crime,” a Kyauktaw resident told DVB. Under international law, a war crime constitutes the targeting or killing of civilians. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar english.dvb.no/myanmar-air-...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026

U Kyaw Moe Tun, a diplomat from Myanmar, told The New York Times that he planned to be in country’s chair at the assembly hall in New York but would not address the UN General Assembly. His presence acts as a quiet reminder of a civil war that the world has seemingly forgotten.

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Myanmar Has an Envoy at the United Nations. Why Is He Not Speaking?

U Kyaw Moe Tun has kept a low profile at the General Assembly for years, part of an arrangement to keep his post despite the military-backed government’s efforts to remove him.

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A bit earlier than usual but here is the upcoming events 🧵for the week To start, with the UN Credentials Committee meeting soon in advance of the 81st UNGA, @pvamplify.bsky.social highlight why it is vital that the Junta does not get handed the UN seat against the will of the peoples of Myanmar 1/

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Violence Cannot Buy Legitimacy: Why the UN Must Uphold U Kyaw Moe Tun’s Credentials - Progressive Voice

The illegal military junta in Myanmar continues to orchestrate drone attacks and airstrikes to brutally silence and control the population. It is escalating daily atrocities against civilians and civi...

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stop calling Min Aung Hlaing “President.” He is not a legitimate president; he is just a dictator. And repatriation may lead force conscription for military junta. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bvj... #PManwaribrahim

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/09/2026

Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city’s once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

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Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case

Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled Hong Kong’s once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Myanmar’s military has forcibly conscripted over 100,000 ppl, forcing young people to flee.🚨 #ASEAN & the intl community must: 📌Protect #Myanmar people seeking refuge 📌Prevent resources supporting the junta 📌Advance accountability for atrocity crimes 🖇️ bit.ly/4yqF0XA

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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🚨 Today, 155 CSOs demand the @icrc.org not to let illegal #Myanmar junta exploit its humanitarian mandate for political propaganda. #ICRC must demand unimpeded access to political prisoners & speak out when private dialogue fails. Humanity must come first. bit.ly/4i2LB4J #RedCross

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Some good news for Myanmar's media landscape. Reporters without borders teaming with @mizzimadailynews.substack.com to broadcast shortwave radio into Myanmar! 1st broadcast was yesterday & will happen every Sunday 7am local time. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 03/08/2026

Arnaud de Baecque, ICRC’s head of delegation in Myanmar, visited Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on 3 August 2026. As is customary in our detention work, observations & recommendations related to the visit are shared exclusively & confidentially with the detaining authorities. ms.spr.ly/63322a8l3w

Arnaud de Baecque, ICRC’s head of delegation in Myanmar, visited Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on 3 August 2026. The visit was carried out in accordance with our standards and procedures for visiting people deprived of liberty. This included the opportunity to speak with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in private. In line with our working methods, detention visits provide people deprived of liberty with the opportunity to exchange news with their families. As is customary in the ICRC’s detention work, observations and recommendations related to the visit are shared exclusively and confidentially with the detaining authorities.

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Upcoming events 🧵is here #MilkTeaAlliance It's been 2001 days since the coup in Myanmar. Over 100,000 have died, millions displaced, 100,000s fled the country, attacks on civilians continue The Peoples of Myanmar continue to resist. Our continued solidarity with them! linktr.ee/MilkTeaAllia... 1/

Art from early 2021. Artist unknown. Shows woman holding up 3 finger salute, holding a sign "Fight for democracy" surrounding here are phrases in Burmese, Thai, Japanese, Chinese & English saying.

Respect Our Votes

Min Aung Hlaing Step down

Shame on you Dictator

We will fight for our future

Stand with Myanmar, there is no going back

Your messed with the wrong generation

No to military coup

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Emily Fishbein @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Late post: In May, Abhishek Kumar, @jaumannaw.bsky.social & I published a three-part investigation about a mysterious article alleging a secret rare earths deal between India & the Kachin Independence Army in Myanmar. We found the article was inauthentic (1/6) www.altnews.in/narrative-wa...

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Narrative Warfare: How an Inauthentic Disinformation Network Targeted India’s Rare Earth Outreach in Myanmar

Originally published as a three-part series, this version compiles the full investigation. On November 18, the website Tech Bullion ran a strange piece. Sandwiched between CEO profiles, marketing how-...

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Emily Fishbein @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My article, co-written with @jaumannaw.bsky.social, looks at how decades of armed conflict, militarization and strategic ceasefires helped enable Myanmar’s rise as a global rare earth mining hub, and how unchecked extraction endangers lives and the environment (1/3).

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Transnational repression carried out by Thai authorities on behalf of the Chinese state & increasing interference by the Chinese Embassy against community spaces & activists in Thailand must stop! Is 泰国省 true? Successive Thai govt's seem to act that way😒 From #MilkTeaAlliance Thailand & us. 1/

In 2025, the Chinese government pressured the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center to Censor an exhibition, "Constellation of Complicity”, by Myanmar, Tibetan, Uyghur & Hong Kong Artists . Ironically, this made the exhibition's point for it.

Then this year (2026) alone, the Thai police have violently attacked environmental protesters in Chiang Mai who wanted to submit a letter about pollution coming from Chinese-affiliated mines in Myanmar . Furthermore, Thai authorities have detained a Hong Kong Activist with a UNHCR card who was due to be resettled in Canada while she was boarding a plane. Other journalists and activists are also under threat of being deported back to China or Hong Kong by Thai authorities .

China’s purported "Non-interference" policy is a sham, and the actions of the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok make that clear. We have long known that the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok carries out these activities; indeed, in 2020 as the Milk Tea Alliance hashtag arose on Twitter, it issued a warning to the Thai public not to get involved but many Thai friends shrugged off this demand and stood up for themselves and us, and have continued to do so ever since, despite repression by their own government and attacks by the CCP. We owe our Thai friends much and won’t stay silent.

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Depressingly, it seems that the current Thai government is more than happy to behave like a vassal state of China, as the recent joint statement it affirmed its unwavering commitment to the One China Policy, recognizing the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government representing all of China, and that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China. Which is a view we fundamentally disagree with.

We call on the Thai Government to fully implement and enforce the non-refoulement principle already enshrined in Section 13 of Thailand’s Anti-Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act

B.E. 2565 (2022), alongside its obligations under international human rights law. This domestic legal safeguard explicitly prohibits the deportation, expulsion, or extradition of any person to a state where there are substantial grounds to believe they would face torture, cruel treatment, or enforced disappearance.

We urge the government to ensure this law is applied consistently and in practice, not only in policy; to protect dissidents, human rights defenders and members of the diaspora and displaced communities residing in Thailand from forced return to countries where they face persecution. Upholding this obligation is not a concession to outside pressure but an exercise of Thailand’s own sovereign legal commitments, reflecting the rule of law it has chosen to establish.

We further call for transparent, independent screening mechanisms to identify individuals at risk prior to any deportation or extradition action, and for accountability where these protections have been circumvented.

We stand in solidarity with our Thai friends and friends who have made Thailand their home or place of refuge. We see their struggles and challenges and thank them again for all that they have done for other causes in the midst of their own. We see your works, we see your struggles and we are committed to helping in what ways we can, amplifying your voices and sharing your stories.

With love & in solidarity always

#MilkTeaAlliance Calendar Team
&
#MilkTeaAlliance Thailand

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How war in Myanmar is driving a deadly rare earth mining boom By @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social and Jauman Naw Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers. grist.org/internationa...

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How war in Myanmar is driving a deadly rare earth mining boom

Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Chief of Kyikemayaw Prison said to his staff, “Beat them as you like. If something happens, I’ll take responsibility.” The Director of the Mon State Prison Department said, “The death of a prisoner only costs us a piece of paper (death certificate)” Via @hurfom.bsky.social #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Political prisoners in Kyikemayaw Central Prison abused and violated - HURFOM

HURFOM: On July 9th, 2026, the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM) released a statement citing the political prisoners in the Kyikemayaw Central Prison, Kyikemayaw Township, Mon State were beat...

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📢 62nd #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Monthly Updates 📅 30 กรกฎาคม 2569 🕓 16.00–17.00 น. (เวลาไทย) 💻 เข้าร่วมออนไลน์ผ่าน Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/87320298587 📺 หรือรับชมถ่ายทอดสดทาง Facebook Live #SEAJunction #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar #Myanmar #Mizzima #TheIrrawaddy #ZoomEvent

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

US resettlement and asylum grants stats from 2021 to 2025. In 2021, there were 17692 asylum grants and 13675 UNHCR resettlements to US.

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Onto other contexts... Well worth listening to this interview with @hpanjabrang.bsky.social & Joanne Chua, on Brang's journey fleeing Myanmar & the situation of Refugees in Malaysia. www.bfm.my/content/podc... this week also marked 15 years since the Resumption of War in Kachin State 13/

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

World Refugee Day 2026: The Reality of Lives in Limbo It was an honor to speak together with Joanne Chua (Executive Director of Asylum Access Malaysia) during a BFM radio podcast session about the refugee situation in Malaysia. #peace #stability #dignity www.bfm.my/content/podc...

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Canada Resettment & Asylum Grants in 2021 to 2025 In canada there were 30,290 asylum grants given in 2021 and here are the number of grants received in excel. 439 were also afghans among those granted asylum. And 8500 Afghans were taken in seperately from afghanistan by canada.

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Statement on the 15th Anniversary of the Resumption of War in Kachin State More than 200000 Kachin civilians have been displaced from their homes since the conflict resumed.

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

International Protection Gaps for Myanmar: In EU Between 2021 & 2025, Myanmar has consistently ranked among the World's top five countries in terms of direct conflict related fatalities. Graph by:Myanmar Ethnic RefugeeS Advocacy Team Data: UNHCR, EUROstat, UK gov immigration statistics, ACLED

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

On February 20, a passenger plane was attacked in Myitkyina, Kachin State, while U Tin Aung San, a minister of the military commission and chairman of the electricity and energy development, his team, and Chinese representatives were there to discuss resuming the Myitsone Dam project.

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Former editor-in-chief Thomas Kean defends Frontier’s independence in the face of baseless accusations that the outlet is part of a nefarious pro-military propaganda operation.

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The other side: A Myanmar Now investigation into Frontier

Former editor-in-chief defends Frontier’s independence in the face of baseless accusations that the outlet is part of a nefarious pro-military propaganda operation.

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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A Myanmar Now investigation exposes the role of Myanmar’s dreaded military intelligence apparatus in the creation of two of the country’s most prominent English-language publications Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/the-...

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ALTSEAN-Burma @altsean.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

#Burma #Myanmar ၂၀၂၆ ဇန်နဝါရီ ၂၅- ၂၆ မွန်းတည့်ချိန်အတွင်း အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဆိုင်ရာ သတင်းအကျဉ်းချုပ် ပိုစတာပါ QR ကုဒ်ကို စကင်န်ဖတ်ပါ (သို့) ဤနေရာကို နှိပ်ပါ။ tinyurl.com/ajhmtsf3 သတင်းလွှာအသစ် ဇန်နဝါရီ (၂၈) ထွက်မည်။

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

On January 22 at around 4:00 p.m., the Myanmar military junta launched two airstrikes on Kawngja Village, Bhamo, during a local prayer service. At least 20 civilians were killed and over 40 wounded—another grave violation against innocent lives. #kachinnews

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Marchpane's Ghost 🍬👻 @marchpaneglass.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Happy #stunday BlueSky, this is a shot from a couple of summers ago on the Ausable River, NY. I hope to see it again this year! #river #summer #water #nature #trees #green #blue #eastcoastkin #photography

A river seen through green trees and scrub, shallow with lots of rocks and boulders. The water is pellucid brown and the sky above is bright blue with puffy white clouds.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The material hearings in the Gambia vs Myanmar case (Rohingya genocide case) start today. The testimony that will be presented will be horrific as the actions of the Military against the Rohingya were. RMCN have put together a sample of these stories. www.instagram.com/p/DTZumvgkhde 1/

Why today matters

Today these testimonies are heard at the ICJ.
Behind closed doors
By judges
As evidence of genocide

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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

1. This History Thread is about roles of #Nisei (Japanese ancestry, American born) soldiers in WW2 Burma. In Allies' fight vs Imperial Japan's occupation, Nisei were translators & psych war experts. My new book "Where the Mithuns Are" includes Karl Yoneda in Burma. (Order via last post #17.) 📚

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Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org · 05/12/2025

Courageous ppl across Myanmar are risking their lives to protest the military junta's sham election. From the streets of Mandalay to posts on FB, the people are resisting an illegal and murderous junta in the face of torture, imprisonment and death. Reject junta's sham elections and its results!

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Cool little mini zine on Myanmar Tea shops (lahpet-ye-hsaing) how they fostered resistance in 1988 uprising as places of organising, the spring revolution & the #MilkTeaAlliance, resistance, human cost & earthquake. Impressive for 8 pages 👏

Cover of Tea resistance and revolution: a tiny history of how Myanmar's Tea houses sparked solidarity.

Cover is a collage of pics of people holding up 3 fingers & other resistance activists from 1988 era. With the word solidarity but with Tea replacing the last 3 letters.

Back cover of the zine with the web link & supported by goldenland solidarity collective.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

in Myanmar the Junta's new "election law" continues to be used to arrest dissent & opposition, the planned "election" itself is a sham, parties banned, large swathes of the country won't be participating. Tis a sham. #RejectShamElection Cartoon by hamyan_cartoons via Cartooning4myanmar on IG

Picture of a green ballot box on top of the flag of Myanmar & 3 people are in stocks in the background one blindfolded, one gagged & one with ears blocked.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Very good interview with both @debbiestot.bsky.social & @khinohmar.bsky.social talking #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Why ASEAN should reject the sham election, recognise the resistances efforts for on the ground governance, how women & youth are leading efforts. Good listen, lots of key points.

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Consider This: Myanmar Crisis — ASEAN Urged to Boycott Junta Poll

YouTube video by Astro AWANI

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Kicking the #MilkTeaAlliance events🧵for the week off with a huge Thankyou to all the artists in movements, we seen your work in so many contexts helping raise awareness, funds & spreading solidarity, most recently #SEAblingsAgainstRacism w/ @seajunction.bsky.social Solidarity collective TH & More 1/

Picture of two hands reaching out to each other, in the background there is a line of paper figures holding hands.
Text reads SEA blings against Racism

Two fishermen one holding a fish the other holding a net.
Text reads Same work, Same respect.

Two construction workers eating lunch together.
Text reads No Border In humanity

Cartoon showing agricultural workers & construction workers with text together we build.

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

On the afternoon of September 29, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the Myanmar military junta (SAC) carried out an airstrike on Sadon (Sadung) town in Kachin State. The attack killed civilians, including children, and left homes and communities in ruins. #WhatsHappeningInKachin #sadon

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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

On September 17, Myanmar junta airstrikes hit a KIA-controlled area in Shwegu Township, targeting Battalion 12’s training site, killing over 10 and injuring dozens, according to local sources. #kachin #whatishappeninginmyanmar

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