Apathy or Action

Agga Nya	A Buddhist monk who took part in the Saffron Revolution in Burma. Afterward, he spent a month in hiding and then escaped to Thailand. Here in the United States, he testified to the U.S. Congress and U.S. embassy in Bangkok of the violent response by the military to peaceful protest. He now lives in New York and campaigns across the U.S. for democracy and human rights in Burma.	April 5th at 7pm WCH 1.120
Daniel H. Magilow	Born the same year as Anne Frank, a Czechoslovakian girl named Kitty Weichherz and her parents were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. Thirteen year-old Kitty and her immediate family did not survive, but a detailed and loving diary kept by Kitty's father remained safe with her aunt. Kitty's story provides a powerful and poignant document of daily life in Europe on the eve of Hitler's Final Solution and the basis of In Her Father's Eyes Exhibit. "In Her Father's Eyes: A Slovak Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust" is a moving tale about Jewish life and a father's profound love for his only child. The exhibition is based on the diary of Béla Weicherz, in which he documents the life of his only daughter, Kitty, in prewar Czechoslovakia. Started as a baby book before her birth in 1929, the journal contains frequent entries about the ups and downs of Kitty's childhood, often written in vivid detail. Weicherz included photographs, developmental charts, and Kitty's own drawings to enhance the text, all featured in the exhibition. The journal entries stop in early spring 1942, just days before the family's deportation to a Nazi death camp. By bridging prewar and wartime periods, the diary also provides a rich context for understanding the history from which the Holocaust emerged.	April 6th at 7pm Texas Hillel 21st and San Antonio
Micah Bournes	a slam poet/rapper who created the video that won the Enough Project video contest: "Come Clean 4 Congo." The video ties the armed-rebels' control of mined minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the widespread violence against women. Bournes' goal is to inspire students and show them how they can help.	April 7th at 7pm WCH 1.120
Sean Carasso	Sean Carasso will be speaking about Falling Whistles, the organization he founded to raise awareness and stop the use of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After starting a number of small companies and grassroots initiatives, Carasso traveled the world with an entrepreneur turned philanthropist, while volunteering alongside Invisible Children and TOMS Shoes. In late 2007, he journeyed into the Democratic Republic of Congo on what was meant to be a short stop. It was there he heard of children too small to carry a gun who were sent to the front lines of war armed with only a whistle. The Falling Whistles campaign was born in response to a small journal entry he wrote that night.	April 8th at 7pm WCH 1.120