January 25, 2011 in the afternoon
This afternoon we met with Sulak Sivaraksa. I personally felt his introduction was not adequate to prepare us for this meeting. I felt that we were meeting a very important icon in Thailand but I was not putting the whole reasons why together. We actually in the presence of a man who has challenged the view of the monarchy, gone to jail for his views but the whole time has been advocating for peace.
He gave us an overview of the red shirt/yellow shirt movement. He gave us his views on poor and the mega Wat that we visited on last week. To read more about him and his peace movement view his website http://www.sulak-sivaraksa.org/en/.
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