At any rate, it brings to mind a recent film festival I attended. I wanted to review the films, but, with so much turmoil over issues originating in DC, how can one simply look the other way? I attended a film called "Burma VJ." It was a look at the inside of the struggle of the Burmese people. The film was made covertly by people they call journalists with small video devices. These digital images are then submitted to a somewhat central processing person and assembled to tell a story. I will review this film and its dire consecquences along with the many, many others I was priviledged to view sometime in the next week.
Link to film (click here)
I don't mean to diminish the importance of the debate (then again maybe I do) regarding national health reform, but, 'for real' already. Americans have so much and to squabble over much needed reform seems a bit trivial to me. It's like ???? What's so hard to get your mind around? The USA health care delivery lacks access and equity. What is the big deal already?
Let's get it done.
I think when Americans show their 'idiot' side as they are with the issues 'created' that are obvious lies and defamation the people in countries like Burma lose that glimmer of hope for their own causes. Their need for recognition are far from trivial and health care insurance reform is so obvious how are they supposed to think about their circumstances and the potential for hope? It's all a little silly to me. Corrupt politics is shameful and no one can call it anything else in either country.
Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi outside the Burmese embassy in Manila: she is said to believe that visitors might help draw attention to oppression Photo: AFP/GETTY
...When last quoted on the subject, in a BBC interview in 2002, she said: "We have not yet come to the point where we encourage people to come to Burma as tourists." She has since been silent on the issue.
The news of her change of stance has been welcomed by the travel trade but left campaigners against the military regime unmoved....
