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Youth In Action Seminar

Hello,
This is a call for Irish participants for a seminar organised by Fishbowl Youth coming up in august, here’s a brief description:

Our project ‘Effective and Creative participation Within a Democracy’ will be a youth seminar, action 4.3 under the YIA programme. It will take place in August (8th to 15th) of 2009 and will be one week long. We aim to provide the young people involved with an insight into how they can be directly involved in their political environment, we will use three examples of professions to do this, Art, Social Work and Politics. Participants will engage in all three areas. Through workshops and informal debate we will create a better awareness of how these areas can have an effect within democratic societies. Trainers will provide presentations and facilitate the workshops and discussions to meet the above aspirations.

If your interested (or know others who’d be interested) please contact me (naoiskapish@gmail.com) or Joe (josephnoonanganley@gmail.com) for an Aplication form.
Thanks for your time, look forward to hearing from you,
Naoise and Joe.
IMG_0046 Naoise & Joe working hard for a better Ireland.

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Zambia Exchange

Anyone over 18 interested in going on an exchange to Zambia?

Check out the Older Fishes Section for the Zambia Exchange organised by the NYCI

If you are interested, you will be working closely with Fishbowl and NYCI before and after the exchange, and also welcome the Zambian Youthworkers / Young People in Ireland and Fishbowl.

National Youth Council of Ireland

Development Education Exchange Visit 2009

Ireland – Zambia

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

NYCI is organising an exchange visit for youth workers from NYCI member organisations to Zambia in southern Africa. During the visit, they will meet with youth organisations and development agencies, share experiences of youth work and learn about issues facing young people in Zambia. The visit will be followed by a visit by Zambian youth workers to Ireland to coincide with One World Week 2009 which takes place from the 14th – 22nd November.

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Videos

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We’ve just added a new video’s section to the website so check them out, rate them and leave some  comments.
There’s just a few to start off with but i’ll be adding more asap.
If your in Fishbowl and you have any video’s of Fishbowl events please contact me on kenny10033@gmail.com and I’ll get them up on the site.

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BEST WISHES FOR ALL DOING EXAMS!!!!!

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Wishfull Thinking

Hey, everyone doing exams…. GOOD LUCK from all of us in Fishbowl…..

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Youth in Action Seminar

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This August we will be running a Youth in Action Seminar which will be one week long. The theme is ‘Active participation of youth within democracy’ We aim to provide the young people involved with an insight into how they can be directly involved in their political environment, we will use three examples of professions to do this, Art, Social Work and Politics. Through workshops and informal debate we will create a better awareness of how these areas can have an effect within democratic societies. Trainers will provide presentations and facilitate the workshops and discussions to meet the above aspirations. Support staff will help in the general facilitation and practical needs of the participants in supporting the seminars running.
The project venue will be Ballyloughran House; Kerry, Ireland, from the 8th to the 15th of August 2009. Participants will be 18 to 25 years old.
Participants will be joining us from Italy, Lithuania and Slovenia, 6 from each country.

If you are interested in participating in this seminar you can contact naoiskapish@gmail.com for more information and an aplication form.

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Democracy Project

Meeting of Italian and Irish Group

This project will focus on democracy in schools. During the first part of the project we will focus on researching and documenting (film) the democratic processes in 3 or 4 Irish schools: Scariff Community College, Scariff Youthreach, Woodford Mercy College, the maybe the ALFA Project (if they can start up again next year) and in 2 schools in Rome. Continued…

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Democracy Project-minutes

Democracy project – minutes 8th April 2009 Continued…

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Acoustic Night 29/5/2009

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Fishbowl youth group invite you to enjoy the talents of many young and old people from all across East Clare. Enjoy a night of acoustic music, film, dance and poetry in a cafe style setting, the music begins at 8pm in the Mountshannon community hall costing €7; all proceeds go towards Fishbowl’s School building project in Bangladesh.

Hope to see you there! Continued…

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Background Burma Exhibition

“The Metta Sutra of the Buddha”

This is the prayer of Loving-Kindness which the Burmese monks have been saying in their demonstrations against the military Junta during August-September 2007:

“May all beings be happy and at their ease. May they be joyous and live in safety. All beings, omitting none, whether weak or strong; small or great; in high, middle or low realms of existence; near or far away; visible or invisible; born or yet-to-be-born. May all beings be happy and at their ease. Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state. Let none harm another. But even as a mother loves, watches over and protects her child, her only child; so may all with a boundless mind cherish all living beings, radiating friendliness over the entire world without limit. May we cultivate a boundless goodwill, free from ill-will or emnity, and maintain the sublime abiding of this recollection.”

Burma – A Country Ruled by Fear

Burma, also known as Myanmar, is a country of over 50 million people in an area the size of France. There are eight major and a number of minor ethnic nationalities speaking over 100 dialects. For much of its history, Burma was a collection of independent kingdoms.

By the 19th Century, the British took advantage of political instability in Burma to colonize the country and later annex it to India as their empire pushed eastward through S.E. Asia. British rule continued into the 20th century but by the 1930’s, Burmese activists drew inspiration from the experiences of post-imperial independence movements throughout the world. By 1937, having gained a small measure of liberty under British rule, the Burmese had grown aware of Ireland’s own experience of struggle and according to historian Dr Peter Carey, looked upon Ireland as ‘an example of what could be done’. The Burmese established a nationwide book club with the intent of building a body of national and international works of assistance to the burgeoning independence movement. Of the 101 titles compiled, 21 were on Michael Collins, two on Eamon de Valera, and one each on James Connolly and Arthur Griffiths. The Burmese push for full independence gathered momentum during World War II. Under General Aung San (1915-1947), the Burmese first sided with the Japanese to remove the British, then when the imperial intentions of the Japanese became clear, switched to the British on assurances of post-war independence.

The 1947 signing of the progressive Panglong Agreement, by Burma’s majority Burman and other major ethnic groups, was followed by strife in which independence hero General Aung San and six members of his cabinet were assassinated. Nevertheless the agreement gave rise the following year to full independence and a new constitution based on principles of equality, voluntary participation and democracy.

A functioning but fragile democracy took root for 14 years (1948 -1962) until internal strife was exploited in a military coup, led by General Ne Win (1911-2002), and ushered in four decades of repression and international isolation.

Since 1962 therefore, Burma has been ruled by a military dictatorship. By July 1988, growing unrest had forced the resignation of General Ne Win, architect of the 1962 coup, but one of the most critical events in Burmese history was to come on the 8 August 1988. A date forever known to the Burmese people as 8.8.88, saw hundreds of students, workers, teachers, farmers and monks demonstrating on the streets of all major towns and cities, demanding democracy. The military leadership acted with the utmost severity to restore its control – firing into demonstrators and killing many hundreds. Thousands fled the country. The new regime leadership renamed itself the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). It ordered the uprising be crushed, renamed Burma as Myanmar and diffused further unrest with the promise of free elections.

In May 1990, elections were permitted and the National League for Democracy party (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, (daughter of General Aung San), won 82% of parliamentary seats. Forbidden from forming a government, the NLD leadership was subsequently harassed, imprisoned or forced into exile. Aung San Suu Kyi was detained under house arrest from 1989 to 1996 and only released in the face of considerable international pressure. Today she is once again in detention at her house in Rangoon, having been re-arrested following a regime-inspired attack on her convoy of NLD vehicles in May 2003. Daw Suu Kyi is forbidden from receiving visits from colleagues and her mail and telephone continue to be censored and monitored.

Daw Suu Kyi is recognised internationally as a woman of courage and integrity. She has spent ten of the last 16 years in detention for her non-violent opposition and has been honoured with more than 60 international awards including the Nobel Peace Prize and the Freedom of both Dublin and Galway cities.

To this day, the regime in Burma, which has been renamed the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), continues to conduct violent repression against political opponents and Burma’s many ethnic peoples. Among its documented human rights abuses are forced labour, conscription of child soldiers, arbitrary arrest, systematic use of rape and torture and extrajudicial executions. It is infamous for its strategy of intimidatory attacks on civilians, the use of sexual violence, the destruction of village communities and the wide-scale displacement of peoples, including internal displacement and refugees who flee over the borders into Thailand, India and Bangladesh.

[Notes compiled by Michelle Hoctor and Mary Montaut, BAI]

www.burmaactionireland.org

Philip Daly

Philip Daly has been working in the new media business for over 10 years. Through photography, he has developed an eye for capturing the unusual, and telling the untold story through images. A member of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) – his work is used and has been exhibited both locally and overseas.

With his love of all things visual, he brings an honest, dedicated and thoroughly professional approach to producing images that are both striking and highly creative

www.philipdalyphotography.com/

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Festival Exhibitions

Cornered  human Rights and Arts Festival

Exhibitions

Burma – “Forgotten Nation, Forgotten People”

- background information to the Burma Exhibition -

Photo exhibition of Burma Action Ireland

Photographer: Philip Daly

Venue: Public Library

People - ”many Journeys”

Photo exhibition

Photographer: Sophie Breuker

Venue: shop windows of the Main Street

Nigeria – “young people taking leadership”

Photo exhibition

Photographer: Katie Moore

Venue: Brian and Joe’s Coffee shop

Endless Checkpoints -

Photo exhibition of Israel and Palestine

Venue: Youth Reach

Human Rights as we see them -

Art created by local youth

Venues: Market House,

Fishbowl Youth, beside Brian and Joe’s Coffee shop

Exhibitions can be visited throughout the festival during the opening hours of the venues.


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