Change!!!!Only one Cuba Tour and it's in April!!!! Space only for 12. Sign up now!!
Cuba People to People Reality Tour
April 10-20, 2012
We're looking for 12 flexible travelers with human services experience (Health care, Education, Social Work, Law, Clergy, etc) who want an experience among warm hospitable Cubans in similar professions to learn the similarities and differences.
$2850 includes Charter from Miami, visa, license, guides, translators, all transport in Cuba, lodging and breakfasts.
$200 deposit saves your place.
Click here for application form.
our developing world(odw)
our developing world(odw)´s voices
http://www.magiclink.net/~odw/
13004 Paseo Presada
Saratoga, Ca 95070-4125
(408) 379-4431
Email: odw@magiclink.net
odw, a tax-exempt education nonprofit provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14397, for 20 Contact Hours RN fee $100. Approval extends only to continuing education providers and does not include tour arrangements.
Burma Reality Tour
January 11-24, 2012 $2,850 w/o int′l air
Aung San Suu Kyi now free, is encouraging tours supporting the democracy movement.
We are looking for 8 to 10 flexible travelers who want an experience among warm hospitable people in a verdant country.
$200 deposit will hold your place, gets you more details, and a suggested reading list and orientation date. Includes lodging, transport in Burma: air boat and a/c van, breakfasts, translator guide, entrance fees and transfers.
Click here for application form.
our developing world(odw)
our developing world(odw)´s voices
http://www.magiclink.net/~odw/
13004 Paseo Presada
Saratoga, Ca 95070-4125
(408) 379-4431
Email: odw@magiclink.net
odw, a tax-exempt education nonprofit provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14397, for 20 Contact Hours RN fee $100. Approval extends only to continuing education providers and does not include tour arrangements.
NLD ( National League for Democracy) on Tourism
The challenge is to reap the benefits of a vibrant tourist industry that would give a much-needed boost to the economy while keeping negative consequences to a minimum.
The NLD would welcome visitors who are keen to promote the welfare of the common people and the conservation of the environment and to acquire an insight into the cultural, political and social life of the country while enjoying a happy and fulfilling holiday in Burma.
National League of Democracy, 19.05.2011
Recent changes in Burma:
- Huge dam project of China on Irawaddy River would have decimated Burma while giving southern China cheap energy. Stopped!
- Workers given right to organize and strike!
- Over 6 thousand political prisoners released! Aung San Suu Kyi had said when offered release that others must be released as well!
This is what President Lincoln said to Congress, to America, and to us 150 years ago:
"It is not needed, nor fitting here [in discussing the Civil War] that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effect to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor, in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded thus far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life.
"Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless.
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights."
In just 48 hours, more than 50,000 people (including you) signed the petition to Secretary Clinton started by former political prisoner and Buddhist monk U Pyinya Zawta.
And Secretary Clinton heard you -- throughout her three-day visit as the first American Secretary of State to visit Burma in 50 years, she called for everything you and U Pyinya Zawta asked her to, and pushed especially strongly for the release of Burma's 1,600 political prisoners. Secretary Clinton even got Burma's president Thein Sein to lay out a plan for their release despite the fact that, before her visit, he refused to even acknowledge that they existed.
Click to read more.
Itinerary:
Yangon-Mandalay-Mingun-Sagaing-Pyin Oo Lwin-Mandalay- Bagan- Mt. Popa-Heho-Pindaya-Inle-Yangon
Day 01 Jan 12 Yangon
Day 02 Jan 13 Yangon-Mandalay
Day 03 Jan 14 Mandalay-Mingun- Sagaing
Day 04 Jan 15 Mandalay-Pyin Oo Lwin
Day 05 Jan 16 Pyin Oo Lwin-Mandalay
Day 06 Jan 17 Mandalay-Bagan (by boat)
Day 07 Jan 18 Bagan
Day 08 Jan 19 Bagan-Mt. Popa (or) Salay
Day 09 Jan 20 Bagan-Heho-Pindaya
Day 10 Jan 21 Pindaya-Inle
Day 11 Jan 22 Inle
Day 12 Jan 23 Inle-Heho-Yangon
Day 13 Jan 24 Yangon Departure
At Inle we'll be visiting a clinic. We'll be going by boat from Mandalay to Bagan and will stop along the way to talk with folks on shore who normally don't interact with foreigners. We'll be going to pagodas where we probably will be able to talk with monks or novices who are always eager to practice their English, and will visit an Adult English Conversation Class to talk one to one. We have a great Burmese facilitaor /guide/translator who knows our focus is on people. She was in self exile in Thailand for a while. Positive changes are happening in Burma so it's a great time to go: Over 6,000 political prisoners were released, workers can organize and even strike, the Chinese huge dam project on the Irawaddy was suspended, AUng Saan Suu Kyi's party will be part of the electoral process.
Videos and comments on Burma:
A bit of insight from the NYTimes:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/11/30/world/asia/100000001199275/timescast--inside-myanmar.html
http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/45506487
The embassy in DC has a web site here for visa application and forms:
http://www.mewashingtondc.com/visas_passports.htm
Use this as the address in Burma on visa application:
YUZANA HOTEL
No.130, Shwegonedine Road
Yangon
http://www.yuzanahotels.com/yuzana_hotel/index.html