7:30 pm
Charlotte Energy Solutions
337 Baldwin Ave
Charlotte, NC 28204
This film recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as their own film and interviews. A key theme is how attitudes of American racism and self-righteousness militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeaveors to give voice to the Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war has affected them and their reasons why they fight the United States and other western powers while showing the basic humanity of the people that US propaganda tried to dismiss.
For info on this screening contact Action Center For Justice at 704-492-8527 or see http://www.CharlotteAction.org.
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Agent Orange survivors challenge Dow, Monsanto
By Workers World NY bureau, workers.org, June 22, 2007
Scores of people attended a rally and Federal Court of Appeals hearing June 18 calling for compensation for victims of Agent Orange by the corporations that produced the dioxin-laden toxic chemical sprayed as a defoliant extensively during the U.S. war against Vietnam.
U.S. veterans and Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange and anti-war activists accused Dow, Monsanto and others of supplying chemical warfare agents known to be toxic to humans. “Corporations must pay for their crimes” and “Justice for Vietnam Agent Orange survivors,” read some of the signs.
A larger group of Vietnamese “contras” waved the flag of colonial rule in Vietnam, screaming epithets at those calling for justice and trying unsuccessfully to surround and intimidate those supporting the survivors. Many had come by bus from Virginia, outside Washington. One boasted he had come from Paris. These were the Vietnamese who had supported the pro-colonial regime that was so unpopular it collapsed despite massive U.S. military intervention to prop it up.
Passersby listened with interest to explanations about the continuing effects of chemical warfare 30 years after the war’s end. Many had never heard of Agent Orange before.
Workers World asked Ngo Thanh Nhan, an organizer with the Vietnam Agent Orange Campaign, why these contras supported the poisoning of 3 million people from their former homeland, which has resulted in birth defects over three generations. He replied, “They think the government of Vietnam is communist and they are so fanatically opposed to communism that they don’t care about the suffering of the people.”
On June 16 the Campaign sponsored a well-attended welcome ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center/1199, where Nguyen Thi Hong, age 60, Ngyen Muroi, age 24, Vo Thanh Hai, age 48, and Nguyen Van Quy, age 52, spoke in very moving terms about the difficulties of living with the deadly diseases they contracted after they—or their parents in the case of Nguyen Muroi—were exposed to the dioxins found in Agent Orange.
They are named plaintiffs in the suit that was discussed in court June 18, but not yet ruled on as of June 20.
Sir, No Sir film screening with Ahmad Daniels
Thurs, June 14 Sir, No Sir film screening with Ahmad Daniels
7:30 pm at Charlotte Energy Solutions, 337 Baldwin Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204.
Join us to watch this ground breaking documentary about the widespread resistance within the U.S. military that helped end the Vietnam War. Ahmad Daniels will be on hand to speak and lead a discussion. He spent two years in jail while in the Marines for refusing to go to Vietnam and is in the film when he went by the name George Daniels.
About the film:
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam. Read the rest at www.sirnosir.com.
Info: Action Center For Justice 704-492-8527 or www.CharlotteAction .org
7:30 pm at Charlotte Energy Solutions, 337 Baldwin Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204.
Join us to watch this ground breaking documentary about the widespread resistance within the U.S. military that helped end the Vietnam War. Ahmad Daniels will be on hand to speak and lead a discussion. He spent two years in jail while in the Marines for refusing to go to Vietnam and is in the film when he went by the name George Daniels.
About the film:
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam. Read the rest at www.sirnosir.com.
Info: Action Center For Justice 704-492-8527 or www.CharlotteAction .org
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