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About the Tour...
See pictures of the DC Plymouth
Congregational Church, Nov 27 2005 11:00 AM.
Can you please do any of the following:
- Send the text below,
"Publicize"
to any lists or individuals in the DC area.
- Check the web site
below and print out leaflets to give out.
- Organize a community
meeting on Saturday or Sunday.
- Host the group (4
Vietnamese and the national coordinator) for breakfast, lunch
or dinner? Saturday and Sunday are needed.
- Provide housing
for the 5 in DC any of the nights 25th through 28th.
- Make a contribution
to the cost of travel, food, etc. Send me a check for local
costs or make a tax free donation on the National web page.
Contact Walter Teague 301-439-6755
Publicize
As part of the national Vietnam Agent Orange Campaign, they will
meet with U.S. Veterans of War in Vietnam and others.
DC Campaign - November
25-28, 2005
Pictures by Walter Teague.
- Friday, 11/25/2005
- Dinner with local Vietnamese
- Saturday, 11/26/2005
- Brunch
with peace activists in VA
- Saturday, 11/26/2005
- Dinner privately hosted in DC
- Sunday, 11/27/2005
11:00 AM - Join with Plymouth
Congressional Church, DC. See pictures.
- Sunday, 11/27/2005
07:00 PM - Dinner hosted by veterans
in DC
- Monday, 11/28/2005
- 10:00 AM - Vietnamese
Guests and Veterans at "The Wall"
at Bacon Drive & Constitution Ave.
- Monday, 11/28/2005
- 12:00 Noon - Luncheon at GT
Univ. Intercultural Center, 7th Fl., 37th and
O Streets, NW, RSVP with Catherin Dalpino (202) 687 6606.
- Monday, 11/28/2005
- 7:00 PM -Public
Event - Washington Peace Center,
1426 9th St., NW
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- Other events TBO
or contact us below.
- Community
Events:
Saturday and Sunday (Contact us if you have an event the Vietnamese
can attend.)
For more information and leaflets, go to: http://www.redandgreen.org/VAOC
DC Tour Contact: Walter Teague, LICSW - wteague@redandgreen.org
Email or call for updates, background information and leaflets.
Phone 301-439-6755 - Fax 301-439-2436
Information
Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign
Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange Will Meet with U.S. Veterans
of War in Vietnam and others.
Veterans Vow to Fight for Justice for Vietnam's Agent Orange Survivors!
From November 15 - December 12, 2005 a delegation of Vietnamese
victims of Agent Orange will be in the U.S. to meet, for the first
time, with U.S. veterans also suffering from the wounds they sustained
in the war in Vietnam. They will visit New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Washington, DC, Raleigh, Chicago, Milwaukee, Santa Fe, Seattle,
Portland, and San Francisco.
More than 30 years after the end of the U.S. war that killed
more than 58,000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese, U.S. veterans
are demanding compensation for their Vietnamese counterparts.
U.S. veterans received partial compensation for their injuries
from the chemical companies and the U.S. government but Vietnamese
veterans received not one penny from the U.S. government which
sprayed them to Agent Orange.
- Three million Vietnamese
and tens of thousand of U.S. soldiers are affected by Agent
Orange
- Agent Orange causes
birth defects in hundreds of thousands of children.
- Agent Orange continues
to poison the natural environment, soil and crops of Vietnam.
The members of the delegation who will meet with U.S. veterans
are:
- Ðang Thi Hong Nhut
who suffered multiple miscarriages due to Agent Orange
- Ho Sy Hai who suffers
from chronic hepatitis, ulcer, enterolitis, unstable blood pressure,
and prostate cancer after being exposed to Agent Orange
- Nguyen Muoi. the
son of an ARVN veteran suffers from Spina Bifida as a result
of his father's exposure to dioxin. His visa was denied by the
U.S. government.
- Dr. Nguyen Trong
Nhân, Former President of the Vietnam Red Cross, representing
the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin.
Vietnamese and U.S. agent orange victims will share their personal
experiences and their efforts to gain compensation for their and
their children's injuries. They will meet with Iraq veterans
and others suffering from chemical weapons.
The sponsor, Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility
Campaign, is supporting the lawsuit of Agent Orange victims against
U.S. chemical manufacturers and will lobby the U.S. government
to provide compensation for Vietnamese Agent Orange survivors.
Tour is endorsed by Black Radical Congress, Veterans for Peace,
United for Peace and Justice and local groups.
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