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Honoring the people of Burma and marking the 23rd Anniversary of 8888 Peoples' uprising
Community Commemoration (Aug 6th) and City of Berkley Burma Flag Raising (Aug 8th)


 

Please join the two public events below organized by the San Francisco Bay Area Community of Burma Freedom Supporters, Activists and Organizations:

1. Community 8888 Commemoration   

Date: 6^th August, 2011 Time: 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM (Commemoration Event)

Place: Cesar E. Chavez Education Center, 2825 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94601
Program includes Morning religious ceremony; Lunch offering to all attendees; and stage performances by children, youths and community members highlighting people's struggle for freedom.

More information at http://sfbc88.blogspot.com/

2. City of Berkeley Annual Burma Day (Burma) flags raising
to honor the people of Burma August 8, 1988 nation-wide uprising

Monday, August 8th, 2011
Time: 7:45 am - 9 am (Flags to be raised at 8:08 am)
Place: Civic Center Park across Old Berkeley City Hall
( At the Corner of Allston Way & Martin Luther King Jr. Way )
(One Block from Downtown Berkeley BART STATION)
Contact:  510-526-8601

Organized by the City of Berkeley; supported by the community organizations!

Marking its 20th anniversary of 1988 people's uprising, the city of Berkeley and San Francisco declared August 8 as Annual Burma Day in 2008 to honor the people of Burma in their struggle for democracy and freedom. That is the day -- famously known as 8888 -- the people of Burma took to the street in 1988 to demand democracy and freedom, but met with brutal crack down by the military regime. In marking the Burma Day, the City of Berkeley annually raises Burma flags at the City Hall. This year again the city will be raising the Burma flags on the August 8 morning to mark the Burma Day on the 23nd anniversary of 8888.

Two Burma flags (A pre-dictatorship Union of Burma flag and a Student Fighting-Peacock flag) will be raised at 8:08 am at the front and back of the Berkeley city hall. Please join in to show your solidarity and support to the City in honoring the people of Burma including their beloved leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,  NLD, students and all the activists and all political prisoners in Burma. The country and the people have been continuously oppressed under the world's most brutal dictatorship for nearly five decades now. Please join in to support!!!