Members Profiles (2005) of MoeMaKa Radio
Board of Directors
1.
Aung Din
2.
Min Zin
3.
Maung Maung Win (Maung Yit)
Officers
1. Maung Maung
Win (Maung Yit)
2. Htain Linn
3. Zarny Win
4. Khun Myo Nge
5. Chann Myay
Ain
Working Committee
1.
Advisory
2.
Contributors
3.
Editors
4.
Production & Publication
5.
Information Technology & System
6.
Operation
Advisory
1.
Maung Swan Yi
2.
Tin Moe
3.
Mar Mar Aye
4.
Win Pe
Contributors
1.
Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw
2.
Mya Kyay Mon
3.
Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Editors
1.
Maung Maung Win (Maung Yit)
2.
Htain Linn
3.
Zarny Win
Information Technology & System (IT/IS)
1.
Maung Maung Win (Maung Yit)
Publication,
Production
1. Htain Linn
2. Maung Yit
3. Khun Myo Nge
Operation
1.
Maung Maung Win (Maung Yit)
2.
Chann Myay Ain
Location of MoeMaKa Media
PO Box 320207, San Francisco,
CA 94132-0207
Phone: 1-415-595-1485
Service Available
1.
Weekly Radio Program Production
2.
Daily News and Articles Online Publication –
(e-journal)
3.
Online Catalog Ordering System
4.
Web Hosting and Technical Support
5.
Multimedia Cataloging, Archiving and Digitizing
(Books, CDs and DVDs)
6.
Burma
Related Media
Catalog Online Library
7.
Production, Publication of books, CD/DVD, audio and
video products
3.
Brief
Bio-Data of Officers and Volunteers
Directors
- Aung Din
Aung Din served over four years
behind bars as a political prisoner in Burma after organizing and helping
to lead the country's nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988 as Vice Chairperson
of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), a largest national
student organization and outlawed by the regime. He is also country
representative of the Thai-Burma border based "Assistance Association for
Political Prisoners-Burma" (AAPP). He has been quoted in countless media
articles, testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, and traveled on speaking tours across the United States.
- Min Zin
Min Zin has been involved in Burmese pro-democracy
movement since he was 14 as a high school student activist in early 1988. He
founded nation-wide high school student union in Burma and worked with pro-democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi closely. He went into hiding in 1989 as he had had to
avoid the arrest by military, and his underground activist-cum-writer life
lasted for nine years until he fled to Thai-Burma border in September 1997. He
was a deputy editor of the Irrawaddy Magazine (www.irrawaddy.org).
He
has been a visiting scholar at U.C.
Berkeley's School
of Journalism in
2001-2002. He is currently working as a
broadcaster for Radio Free Asia (Burmese Service).
- Maung Maung Win (Maung Yit)
In 1998, He was a 20-year-old electrical
engineering student at Rangoon Institute of Technology, a politically active
school comparable to UC Berkeley or SF State when police raided the campus
breaking into dorm rooms and jailing outspoken students. He wrote articles for Burmese
newsletters that were critical of the repressive government between the
years 1988 – 1996. He left his country in 1997 to Singapore where he help founded
informative web sites for Burmese to promote freedom of expression. Fours
year later he flew to the United States to attend graduate school in Iowa at
Fairfield
and then co found MoeMaKa Radio in April 2003. He is now also working at J Paul
Leonard Library, San Francisco
State University
as System Specialist.
Officers
- Htain Linn
1988-2001, he was actively involved in
struggle for democracy in Burma
by participating himself in Student Union, Democratic Party for a New
Society [DPNS] and National League for Democracy. As a writer and an editor by profession, he
had worked in several local magazines and journals with various pen names
including "Htain Linn". He was detained twice by military junta as an
active member of NLD while NLD was staging the CRPP action to head against
National Convention by military junta back in 1997 and 1998. In 2001, he fled
to Thailand,
worked as Editor for Burmese Edition in Irrawaddy Publishing Group, Burmese
media group in exile. He had written numerous articles on Burmese struggle for
democracy and freedom of expression in various Burmese publications outside Burma including
Radio Free Asia – Burmese Services and New Era Journal (Khit Pyaing). He is
still an active member of AAPP-Burma (Assistance association for political
prisoners in Burma).
- Zarny Win
Since 1988, he was an active NLD-Youth
member participating in the struggle for democracy in Burma. He had
been detained twice for his democratic political activity. After he fled to Thai-Burma
border in 2000, he became a staff writer of Irrawaddy Publishing Group. He also
published his own Burmese news journal – Shwe Yanant (Golden Scent) for the
Burmese readers at the border area. He is also serving as an active executive
member of AAPP-Burma (Assistance association for political prisoners in Burma).
- Khu Myo Nge (Cartoon Dynamite) ( Cartoonist in Exile )
After the military junta brutal crackdown on
democracy demonstration in 1988, he fled to Thai-Burma border. He constantly
worked with Burmese media groups in exile as an illustrator and cartoonist in
their publication. He was well-known for his politically critical comic strips
in Irrawaddy News, Khit Pyaing and Other Ethnics Newsletters.
- Chann Myay Ain
An anonymous Burmese social and community
volunteer who frequently travel into Burma to contribute his labor and
service with non profit and non governmental humanitarian and medical
organization for socially and economically disabled Burmese people in the rural
area.
Advisory
- Tin Moe ( Poet in Exile)
A Well-known writer whose literary
work has achieved great recognition and appreciation before the advent of the
military dictatorship in Burma.
Living in involuntary exile, he is unofficially regarded as being his country's
'national poet'. Although his work is banned in Burma,
he continues to write poetry and other work in Belgium
and the United States.
His texts are a constant source of inspiration for his people. Tin Moe's poems
are circulated in pro-democratic circles in Burma and are regularly published
in the foreign media. He was awarded with Prince Claus Award in 2004 honoring him for
his outstanding literary achievements and for his role in sustaining culture as
a source of strength, inspiration and identity.
- Maung Swan Yi ( Critic & Poet in Exile)
A well-known scholar and writer,
his poems, short stories, book reviews, and articles on Mayanma (Burmese)
literature and art have appeared in various journals, magazines, and newspapers
since 1958, often under the pen name Maung Swan Yi. He has lectured on
literature, at schools, town halls, churches, and monasteries, since 1962 and
has also devoted himself to the preserving of Burmese culture, conducting extensive
field research on Burmese folklore and folk music.
- Mar Mar Aye ( Musician Artiste in Exile)
She sang almost 6000 songs,
including movie soundtracks and independent records and cassettes, as well as
radio broadcasts. She worked for Burma Broadcasting Service from 1961 to 1977
as an assistant producer. She is currently performing in the United States
and compiling an archive of materials related to the history of Burmese music. Her
current popular program is now presenting at BBC Burmese Section of her life
and Burmese music history from her perspective.
- Win Pe ( Artist, Film Director & Writer in Exile )
A well-known artist, film director,
short-story writer, painter and musician. In the early 1960s, Win Pe worked as an
illustrator for People 's Daily in Mandalay,
and served as the principal of the State School of Fine Arts, Music and Dancing
until the early 70s. In a continuation of his creativity, Win Pe became a film
director, short story and screenplay writer. In 1994, he left Burma for the United States. In 1997 - 2005,
he has worked with Radio Free Asia under the name – Zaw Wate.
Contributors
1. Khaing
Mar Kyaw Zaw
Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw (Burma), poet,
journalist, and teacher, is an ethnic Karen, one of Burma´s largest minority
populations. In 1992, Khaing Mar joined with the Karen opposition movement.
First she taught school and joined the KNU general secretary´s office. Now she
works for the Karen Women´s Organization and is the Burmese language editor for
the Karen Information
Center based in Thailand, writing news and
feature articles. She was awarded with Hellman-Hammett Grants in 2003 for her literary
and human rights activity.
2. Mya Kyay Mon
Student Activist and former
political prisoner turned into writer after she fled to Thai-Burma border. She was in
Insein prison with her mother, writer San San Nweh (Tharawaddy). She had to live in solitary confinement for 6
years. Her writings on her life in prison and her fellow political prisoners
were frequently seen in DVB, Irrawaddy, New Era Journal (Khit Pyaing) and
other Burmese periodicals published outside Burma. She now lives in Norway.
3. Kyaw Kyaw
Naing
He is a Saing musician for the
past 25 years, and is well experienced in Burmese and international Music and
musical instruments. Moreover, he is one of the few Burmese musicians whose
music has been recorded for projects released outside of Myanmar, and has performed in Russia, Malaysia,
Singapore and Thailand, England
and the United States.
He performed his music on program “ The Bang on a Can Marathon Music” at
Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 28, 2001, and at Lincoln Center
on February 9, 2002.
Best Regards
Maung Maung Win
Director, Coordinator
MoeMaKa Radio / Multimedia
PO Box 320207,
San Francisco,
CA 94132-0207, US.
San Francisco,
CA 94132-0207, US.
