Celebrating Voices for Change in Burma

Use your Liberty to Promote Ours.”

–Aung San Suu Kyi

Join the AJWS-AVODAH Community and SF Hillel grads for wine, traditional Burmese snacks, and a celebration of advocacy and activism

Guest Speakers:

AJWS’ grantee Naw Htoo Paw, a women’s rights activist and human rights defender from the Karen Women’s Organization, will share her inspirational work as a young female activist on the Thai-Burmese border. Htoo Paw fled from Burma in 2001 when Burmese military troops attacked and burned her village and now she is on the frontlines of defending the rights of Burma’s ethnic minorities.

AJWS Senior Program Officer Jenna Capeci will share AJWS’ grant-making strategy for the region.

Ja Dim, a resettled Karenni exile will share her experiences coming to Oakland and Refugee Transitions, an organization that supports refugees here in the Bay Area will provide opportunities to get involved locally.

Entertainment provided by traditional Burmese dancers and DJ Betsy-La spinning world music with a feminine vibe!  The program will include a Havdalah and candle lighting ceremony at 9:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 17, 8:00-10:30 p.m.  

SOMA Creativity Center, 81 Langton Street, Suite 13, San Francisco

RSVP to Heidi Winig at hwinig@ajws.org

American Jewish World Service and San Francisco Hillel are part of a global movement for human rights and democracy in Burma. “Use your Liberty to Promote Ours” aims to increase awareness of the deteriorating social and political crisis in Burma, and will offer potent, pragmatic, non-violent methods to create lasting change.