Eight Sleep: end your complicity with genocide in Sudan A Good Night’s Sleep Shouldn’t Come From Genocide

I just signed the petition to Eight Sleep "A Good Night’s Sleep Shouldn’t Come From Genocide" to demand that Eight Sleep end its complicity in the UAE-supported genocide in Sudan.

Sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ei...

Tell Congress: Pass the BRAVE Burma Act Take action against the Myanmar military junta.

Ask your U.S senators to co-sponsor the BRAVE Burma Act (S.3981) and stand up for the Burmese people in their struggle against the Myanmar military.

Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

I just told Congress to pass H.Res.559 for peace, accountability & human rights in Democratic Republic of Congo (#DRC).

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Arsenal can’t sing “Victory Through Harmony” while sponsored by a government fueling war crimes.
Arsenal: drop Emirates until the #UAE stops fueling war in #Sudan.
✍️ Take action: https://bit.ly/4roEMfr

Arsenal: Drop Emirates until the UAE stops fueling war in Sudan Tell Arsenal Football Club to end its complicity in genocide in Sudan

I just signed a @nbwg.bsky.social petition demanding that Arsenal Football Club end its complicity in the #genocide in Sudan.

Join me and sign the petition below. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ar...

Episode #456: Abandoned in Plain Sight — Insight Myanmar What Happens When Protection Ends

Check out my interview in which I talk about our work at Campaign for a New Myanmar @cnmyanmar.bsky.social in support of Burmese refugees whose right to stay in the US was just terminated by the Trump Administration and how we are all fighting back.

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Myanmar's military is planning to hold a general election. Critics say it's a sham Myanmar's military is planning a general election this month, one critics call a sham that comes in the midst of a nearly five-year long civil war that's left thousands dead and millions displaced.

Pretty good story today by NPR: "Myanmar's military is planning to hold a general election. Critics say it's a sham."

#Myanmar #Burma

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‘Never Forgot Me’: How a Monk’s Supporters Helped Him Survive Prison

Kudos to the Burmese community in Buffalo for their tireless efforts to secure the release of the the Venerable U Pyinya Zawta, 65, whom the #Myanmar military junta had sentenced to 15 years in prison on trumped up charges.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...

‘Broken My Hope’: Trump’s Move to Slash Refugee Arrivals Ricochets Widely

The Trump Administration's policy of restricting immigration to the US is having a serious impact on refugees from #Burma (#Myanmar).

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...

‘Just War’ in Myanmar International humanitarian law and the rights and wrongs of conflict in Burma

Ashley South makes a powerful case for why the war in #Myanmar is a case of good versus evil - or at least of war criminals versus freedom fighters.

‘Just War’ in Myanmar
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Yesterday, we had a very productive day on the Hill lobbying for bills and appropriations for #Burma (#Myanmar).

We met up on the street with Senator Ed Markey (D, MA) and had the opportunity to thank him for his long-time support for the Burmese people.

Economic Data Helps Explain a Pattern of Violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Minority‌ New research from Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak shows that the violence and looting in rice-growing areas is tied to rice prices, suggesting an economic motivation for the attacks, and finds that the gov...

Patterns of violence against the Rohingya in #Myanmar suggest that there are systematic economic and expropriation motives for the forced displacement of the #Rohingya, according to Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management.

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Thank you, U.S. Rep. Eugene Vindman (D, VA-07), for stepping up for the people of #Myanmar by co-sponsoring the BRAVE #Burma Act (H.R.3190).

@repvindman.bsky.social

Did you not notice the pivotal elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia and for mayor in New York City that take place in just two months?

Opinion | Myanmar’s election is a sham orchestrated by China Flattery and the desire for a minerals deal already led Trump to relax sanctions on the junta.

The Washington Post editorial board gets it right on the #Myanmar military's plan for sham elections in #Burma.

"The junta controls less than half the country... Some 3.5 million people [are] internally displaced, and more than 1 million others have fled to neighboring countries."

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Episode #378: Of Bills and Sanctions — Insight Myanmar Money for Nothing, Sanctions for Free: Schoolhouse Rock Meets Foggy Bottom

Insight Myanmar Podcast kindly interviewed me about the recent passage of the #Burma bills through House committees and more broadly about how we’re lobbying Congress and the Administration in support of democracy and human rights in #Myanmar.

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DC and Hong Kong: 2 cities where the Ruling Party seeks to quash autonomy Conditions differ, but GOP & CCP share the authoritarian impulse to deny locals’ self-governance

Todd Stein makes a compelling case about how the Trump Administration and the Chinese government use similar tactics and lies to crush local opposition to their rule.

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Republican lobby firm DCI Group just took $3 million of dirty money to lobby the Trump Administration on behalf of the genocidal Myanmar military junta.

Lifting Sanctions, Dismissing Accountability - Progressive Voice In a dangerous rollback of US policy towards Myanmar, the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has undone years of Myanmar people’s tireless efforts by lifting targeted san...

This week's must read is this penetrating analysis by Progressive Voice of the US Administration's recent lifting of targeted sanctions on some Myanmar military junta-linked individuals and companies.

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I never thought that I'd see the day when the capital of the free world was Berlin.

US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs Exclusive: All but two of the programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor would be cut, affecting nearly $1.3bn in grants

The Trump Administration plans to terminate State Department pro-democracy programs including a rapid response team meant to support pro-democracy activists abroad who may require urgent relocation or other protection if their lives are deemed to be in danger.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tell Congress: Pass the BRAVE Burma Act Take action against the Myanmar military.

If you live in the US, tell your U.S. representative to co-sponsor the BRAVE Burma Act (H.R.3190) and help cut off the #Myanmar military's access to hard currency and jet fuel for air strikes.

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Bangladesh: Foreign Aid Cuts Affect Rohingya Children’s Education United States and other foreign donor cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the already existing education crisis for 437,000 school-age children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

US and other foreign donor cuts in aid have led to the closing of community-based schools serving hundreds of thousands of children in #Rohingya refugee camps in #Bangladesh according to Human Rights Watch.

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Happy 80th birthday Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from Debbie Stothard - DVB Guest contributor Debbie Stothard “Don’t forget, my Suu is very human,” Michael Aris told me as he drove me around Oxford to point out various buildings connected to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. It was 1998,...

Her denial of the #Rohingya genocide, and tolerance for China’s economic projects that hurt so many rural ethnic communities turned our world upside down. This was a different Daw Suu from the one we knew, writes Debbie Stothard.

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#AungSanSuuKyi #Myanmar

Non-voting delegates can co-sponsor bills and resolutions as well as join caucuses. They just can't vote.

Two refugee families. Two very different experiences under Trump. A South African family was given a fast track to entering the U.S. as refugees. A family from Myanmar is struggling amid cuts to resettlement agencies under Trump.

Two refugee families, one #Rohingya from #Myanmar and one white Afrikaner from South Africa. Two very different experiences under Trump. wapo.st/3Z6I77e

Tell Congress: Pass the BRAVE Burma Act Take action against the Myanmar military.

If you live in the US, tell your Members of Congress to stand up for the Burmese people and co-sponsor the BRAVE Burma Act (H.R.3190).

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Myanmar nationals deported by US being held in notorious junta detention centre The detainees are among 20 people handed over to the regime by the Trump administration since last month

Thirteen Myanmar nationals deported from the United States since last month are being held in a notorious interrogation centre in Yangon, Myanmar Now has learned.

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Myanmar refugees in Thailand face health crisis after USAid withdrawal – in pictures Thousands of people who fled Myanmar’s civil war to refugee camps in Thailand are struggling to find healthcare after Donald Trump ordered a freeze on US foreign aid spending. In the Thai border regio...

Thousands of people who fled Myanmar’s civil war to refugee camps in Thailand are struggling to find healthcare after Donald Trump ordered a freeze on US foreign aid spending.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Hat tip to Reps. Bill Huizenga, Betty McCollum, Ann Wagner, and Seth Moulton for re-introducing the BRAVE Burma Act, now (H.R.3190).

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