Who puts on this shindig, anyway?

The "Free Burma" concert is a project of the Mighty Mic student organization at UCLA. Mighty Mic held its first event in spring of 2007, drawing attention to women's rights in Afghanistan and sending funds to the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and Doctors without Borders. At this first concert organized by Mighty Mic, students learned about the continuous struggle of Afghan women and the grassroots solutions of feminist projects as well as the global health disparities that Doctors Without Borders strives to correct. The show featured musical artist Peaches, the first female elected to Afghanistan's Parliament (Malalai Joya), and Sonali Kolhatkar, President of the Afghan Women's Mission.

Mighty Mic held its second event in spring of 2008, drawing attention to the genocide in Darfur and highlighting other genocides that have occurred around the world. By drawing attention to the pattern of attacking ethnic identity, Mighty Mic drew the parallels between the genocide in Darfur, Armenia, Cambodia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, the Holocaust, and Native American genocide.

The UCLA community experienced an exhilarating night filled with musical performances, documentary clips, speeches by academics and genocide scholars, and testimonials by survivors of genocide. Funds raised were sent to Doctors without Borders and Student Anti-Genocide Coalition. The show featured musical artists OK Go, Rhymefest, and Nico Vega, as well as Rabbi Harold Shulweis of Jewish World Watch, Darfur survivor Mohammed Soleiman, Adam Sterling of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, and John Prendergast, US Government Advisor on Darfur and co-author of Not on Our Watch with Don Cheadle.