HBO Gets Ill: Adam Yauch's Protest Flick Brings New Meaning to 'Fight for Your Right (to Party)'

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What's the time? It's time to get informed.

On Thursday, May 7, Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys joined HBO Vice President Sara Bernstein in hosting the New York premiere of Burma VJ, director Anders Ostergaard's brutal documentary about the 2007 uprising in Myanmar, at the network's headquarters at 1100 Avenue of the Americas.

Prior to the screening, guests sipped sangria and chewed on skewers of chorizo, artichoke and red pepper, whilst mingling with three robed Buddhist monks, U Pylnar Zawta, U Gawsita, and U Agga Nyana, the leaders of the so-called Saffron Revolution that is depicted in the film.

more:
http://www.observer.com/2009/daily-transom/adam-yauchs-burmese-repression-flick-brings-new-meaning-fight-your-right-party

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I love these guys. Yauch is always fighting the good fight. He's the one who got the group involved in the Tibetan cause and organized the Tibetan Freedom Concerts.

and wasn't it cool to hear them in Star Trek?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbqIyeed4g