Michael Sladnick - My trip to Karenni Amidst Myanmar Civil War

My trip to Karenni Amidst Myanmar Civil War: Reporting about Democracy and self-determinism found within anti-junta rebels
Michael Sladnick is a former American Trotskyist previously located in Chicago and NYC. After the 2021 coup d’état and outbreak of the Spring Revolution, he decided to dedicate himself to building support for the revolutionary Myanmar proletariat - even if it meant leaving "the U.S. Left" behind. While supporting Myanmar diaspora activism in Chicago, his solidarity work during the first two-and-a-half years of the revolution was mainly as an individual online, in the course of which he made direct contact with grassroots revolutionary organizations and activists from across Myanmar; donating over $30,000 directly to comrades on the ground, focusing especially on the strike committees organizing public protests around the Yinmabin-Salingyi mines and in other rural areas, and the small groups who bravely continue to protest in the cities; learning Burmese in the course of that support work and daily conversations online.

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Thanks for the report. I hope this war ends sooner than later and after the coup is overthrown, the people can come together despite their differences among all the groups.