The drama over the capture of Myawaddy unfolds on a border where many are rebuilding their lives after the #Myanmar military coup. We visited a creative team using 3D printers to make prosthetic arms, offering hope amid the conflict. 📷 Valeria Mongelli #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.

Reading on newsprint this story about Free Blockbuster boxes (like Little Free Libraries for VHS and DVDs) in the Sunday The New York Times⁩ and found this beautiful quote from Ava DuVernay about physical media having “tactile intimacy.” No algorithm would have sent me here.

Can't wait to hear Global Governance Czar Robert Wright's take on this

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The saddest hannukah. It feels so dark in here. We could really use a miracle, like respect for international law and human rights, say

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Honored to sit alongside Tikhon Dzyadko and to remind folks: this is still ongoing in Myanmar as well.

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'That entire country is being held prisoner right now ... and that's ongoing. When I left, none of that changed.'

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The civil disobedience movement and demonstrations show that the people of Myanmar want democracy. We stand with them.

Factory workers from the western Yangon suburb of Hlaing Tharyar block traffic on Insein Road and chant against military dictatorship.

Several thousand workers and students in Myanmar's largest city have taken to the streets this morning to protest Monday's coup. (Frontier)

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With President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi still in custody, the military at 10am on Wednesday ordered all other MPs in detention to return to their homes within 24 hours, an NLD lawmaker and Central Executive Committee member says.

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In the new issue (on news stands tomorrow but available to members here: bit.ly/3a2AXGC): the future of the Kayin State BGF, the swelling ranks of Myanmar's child labourers, Facebook's burgeoning marijuana market and more.

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Seoul power.

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An activist in Hong Kong said to me last night: if Trump can put troops on the streets of New York, there’s nothing stopping Xi sending the PLA into Hong Kong. Those two acts would appear equivalent. He’d give them a moral and legal license for military intervention.

A black Detroit Police commander just complained to me: ' Black police officers have to tear gas white, surburban protestors. Ain't that some shit?'