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PROJECT MAJE RECOMMENDS: NEW REPORTS BY EARTHRIGHTS AND SHWE GAS MOVEMENT EXPOSE BURMA PIPELINE DANGERSSept. 2009 Shwe Gas Movement has produced a comprehensive report, "Corridor of Power" about the scheme by China National Petroleum Corporation to build oil and gas pipelines cutting diagonally across Burma from the Bay of Bengal to China's Yunnan Province. The report shows the risks of this venture, the potential damage to human rights and the environment, and the appalling wealth accrued by such schemes by Burma's junta while the people live in poverty. Report at: www.shwe.org EarthRights International has released two important new reports about the Total/Chevron pipeline in southeast Burma, "Total Impact: The Human Rights, Environmental, and Financial Impacts of Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Project in Military-Ruled Burma" and "Getting It Wrong: Flawed 'Corporate Social Responsibility' and Misrepresentations Surrounding Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Pipeline in Military-Ruled Burma." Reports at: www.earthrights.org/content/view/693/114/ RATS AND KYATSOur latest report is Rats and Kyats: Bamboo Flowering Causes a Hunger Belt in Chin State, Burma. NEW ARTICLE AT IRRAWADY.COMThe Irrawaddy magazine has published a short article by Edith Mirante, about the Karen village of Webi, on India's Middle Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal: THE RUBY APE: A DEADLY STORM AND A LETHAL REGIMEA new essay about Burma's Cyclone Nargis aftermath by Project Maje director Edith Mirante (author of "Burmese Looking Glass" and "Down the Rat Hole") has been published by Guernica Magazine, an online journal of politics and culture.
"The Ruby Ape: A Deadly Storm and a Lethal Regime" includes the Burmese political context, petroleum multinationals, the Irish Potato Famine, disaster photography, Bernard Kouchner, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Oscar Wilde's mother.
It is in two parts: MASSIVE HUMANITARIAN DISASTER IN BURMACyclone Nargis on May 2nd inundated Burma's densely populated rice-growing Irrawaddy Delta, destroying entire towns and villages. Over 100,000 people have been killed by the storm and at least two million survivors are homeless. This disaster has been compounded by the regime's deliberate delay of international emergency assistance, but local groups with foreign support are managing to get aid into the Delta. DONATIONS for disaster relief can be made via Global Health Access Program, funding indigenous emergency teams currently providing aid: SCOTT BATEMAN: BURMA'S HIP HOP SCENEMay 22, 2008: Scott Bateman, animation artist for Salon.com, has a new animated political cartoon about Burma: OPEN LETTERAn Open Letter signed by over 30 people in the arts who are of Asian background, as a way to show international support for Burma's nonviolent resistance can be viewed at http://www.projectmaje.org/letter.htm. SCOTT BATEMAN: HOW THINGS ARE IN BURMAOctober 24, 2007: Scott Bateman has an animated political cartoon about the suppression of free expression in Burma on the Salon.com website, featuring commentary by Edith Mirante: Project Maje is an independent information project on Burma's human rights and environmental issues. It was founded by its project director, Edith Mirante, in 1986. Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma's Frontiers, the most recent book by Ms. Mirante (author of Burmese Looking Glass), is published by Orchid Press. In Asia, order online from www.orchidbooks.com. Down the Rat Hole is also available at Powells.com, and can also be requested from your local bookshop or ordered at www.amazon.com. Our latest reports are available online. In addition to Rats and Kyats: Bamboo Flowering Causes a Hunger Belt in Chin State, Burma, other reports from 2008 include Desperate Conditions: Update on Malaysia as Burma Refuge, written in March 2008. Desperate Conditions is a follow-up to We Built This City: Workers from Burma at Risk in Malaysia, written in July 2007. Several previous reports are also available in Project Maje's documents section. Also available online, in the September 2006 issue of Guernica Magazine: Dragon Mothers Polish Their Metal Coils
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