By Steve Rhodes
Chicago River Deer.
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From frequent Beachwood contributor Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University professor emeritus:
Chicago Efforts To Stop Genocide Of Rohingya People In Myanmar
Here is a link to my flickr photo album of 102 photos of a rally held September 6, 2017 in the Federal Plaza of Chicago for the Rohingya people of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).
They are victims of extreme violence and genocide as the Myanmar military engages in ethnic cleansing, pushing them off their land and homes.
One of the protest signs reads, “Never Again. Happening Again,” which is especially touching to me, a Jewish person who lost family members in the Holocaust.
Burma Task Force USA has a Chicago office: E-mail: info@BurmaMuslims.org. Phone: (312) 750-1178
They are looking for volunteers to help increase advocacy for the Rohingya in the USA and also to provide tutoring and assimilation help to Rohingya refugees living in Chicago at the Rohingya Culture Center.
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See also:
Tribune: Persecuted Rohingya Muslims Find Rare Refuge In Chicago.
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“The center is a community space for maintaining the Rohingya refugee community’s identity, learning the English language, and developing the social skills necessary to integrate into the new society that has adopted them.”
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Urgent message to the UN from @HRW‘s researcher on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, watching ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims unfold. pic.twitter.com/k1dzfJwAy7
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) September 18, 2017
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TweetWood
A sampling.
rich liberals aren’t your friends, mainstream media celebrities aren’t your friends, these people believe in nothing and stand for nothing. pic.twitter.com/eL40gZUTtw
— Chloi (@_chloi) September 18, 2017
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i really envy two-time pulitzer winning political cartoonist Michael Ramirez because he makes above minimum wage to label bad things “debt” pic.twitter.com/eYpFhUHyrS
— wrestle with jimmy (@DOGGEAUX) September 18, 2017
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How Condé Nast Put the Squeeze on New Yorker Cartoonists https://t.co/prR8ss2iFx via @pastemagazine
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) September 17, 2017
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Real lesson of Harvard/Manning is that in the US, war criminals are never punished; only those who expose them are https://t.co/Nyo4CWJcqD pic.twitter.com/bshQ2gWUSR
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 17, 2017
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Daniel Dale has been doing ace reporting on Trump, but today’s thread on the Juggalos is a must follow. Both surreal and… heartwarming? https://t.co/ICVBq3DOYy
— Kat Arnett (@katarnett) September 16, 2017
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Posted on September 18, 2017