Last week, at Politickled!, a panel discussion co-sponsored by the New Yorker and Awearness, one of the panelists discussed the Moustache Brothers, a comedic trio in Burma that regularly stages pranks and protests to challenge the policies of their strict military dictatorship, and just as regularly goes to jail for their antics.


You might think of them as Burma's Al Sharpton, the New York minister and activist for social justice whose own protests have landed him in jail time and again.


But where Sharpton is a serious, the Moustache Brothers are fun. They satirize their regime's leader, the notoriously humorless Senior General Than Shwe, go to jail, get out, and repeat.


Check out their Website to find out where they are now, and again next week, because in their world, it's bound to have changed.

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