{"id":71,"date":"2008-04-08T17:51:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/04\/08\/myanmar-burma-ask-the-un-to-pay"},"modified":"2008-04-08T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T23:02:13","slug":"myanmar-burma-ask-the-un-to-pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/04\/08\/myanmar-burma-ask-the-un-to-pay-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar (Burma) activists ask the UN to listen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"flickr-frame\"> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32856635@N00\/2263074109\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2212\/2263074109_70db0a276e_t.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"1, 2, 3, 4, ... , 2217 (Bagan, Myanmar)\" align=\"left\" \/> <\/a>Catching up on my Global Voices reading, got to this disturbing reminder of the international stories that go quickly back to being local after the crisis fades. A blogger called <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhawarrior.wordpress.com\/\">Buddhist Warrior  <\/a><\/p>\n<p> publishes a statement from the All Burma Monks\u2019 Alliance and the 88 Generation Students under the unambiguous title &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/buddhawarrior.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/29\/hotspots-tibet-and-burma\/\">The United Nations is a Failure<\/a>&#8220;. Naturally this plea to the UN Secretary General was picked up by mainstream media everywhere, (if everywhere is India, Thailand and Norway, and Burmese-focussed media is mainstream).<\/p>\n<p class=\"flickr-frame\"><span class=\"flickr-caption\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32856635@N00\/2263074109\/\">1, 2, 3, 4, &#8230; , 2217 (Bagan, Myanmar)<\/a>,<br \/>\noriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/32856635@N00\/\">jmhullot<\/a>. \t<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on my Global Voices reading, got to this disturbing reminder of the international stories that go quickly back to being local after the crisis fades. A blogger called Buddhist Warrior publishes a statement from the All Burma Monks\u2019 Alliance and the 88 Generation Students under the unambiguous title &#8220;The United Nations is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221,2318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cappucino","category-the-rest-of-the-world-remember-them"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}