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Outside the new Metta Parami monastery in Bed-Stuy, home for the monks of the All Burma Monks' Alliance, an organization that struggles for democracy in Burma and the release of imprisioned monks. Leaders of the Saffron Revolution in 2007, many monks of the ABMA fled Burma to Mae Sot, Thailand soon after the government crackdown. The three monks of this monastery were re-settled to Utica in January 2009 and moved to Brooklyn in August 2010, where they have easier access to the U.N., the capital, and other well-connected monks.

All Burma Monks' Alliance