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White Night Festival: Soothing the Pain of Agent Orange
Sept. 17-18, 2004
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam


Children affected by Agent Orange at the Friendship Village, Hanoi, May 20, 2005

"The manufacture and use of Agent Orange is a human rights violation against Vietnamese victims, by Lệ Hà, Vietnam Net, Hanoi, February 23, 2006.

And Their Children: Four million Vietnamese still suffer after-effecs of the U.S. military's defoliant Agent Orange, by Cydney Gillis, Real Change News, Seattle, WA, December 15, 2005.

South Korean Vietnam War veterans still haunted by Agent Orange, by Kim Hyung-jin, Yonhap News, February 15, 2006.

Mental health problems caused by war service afflict veterans' families and children too, Collateral Damage, by Kellie Bisset, The Weekend Australian, February 11, 2006.

Cancer risk increased for Vietnam vets who didn't spray Agent Orange , Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, May 14, 2005.

Court rules U.S. firms pay South Korean Vietnam veteran Agent Orange victims, , by Kwon Ji-young,Korea Herald, January 27, 2006.

 

Agent Orange Victims win lawsuit: South Korea Court ordered two U.S. firms to pay $62 million in medical compensation, by Kim Tong-hyun, The Korea Times, January 26, 2006.

Dow and Monsanto ordered to pay damages over Agent Orange to Vietnam veterans in South Korea, Agence France Press, January 26, 2006.

The aftermath of Agent Orange, local woman forms nonprofit to aid affected children, by Kimberly Nicoletti, Aspen Times Weekly, January 14, 2006.

Agent Orange, Program #37-05, Univ. of South Florida, produced by Miae Kim, January 3, 2006.

More initiatives in support of Vietnamese AO victims, says Mme Binh, Vietnam News Agency, December 30, 2005.

December 7th 2005 Agent Orange Tour to Portland, by Dan Shea, Veterans For Peace, Local Chapter 72, and KBOO interview, by Miae Kim, December 29, 2005.

U.S. vets join Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, by Elisabeth Schreinemacher, Inter Press Service News Agency, Human Rights, December 19, 2005.

Repercussion of Agent Orange — an exhibition of panel posters in Hanoi, December 16-21, see Nhan Dan Daily, December 17, 2005.

Vietnam: Lessons of forgiveness and hope, by Bette Lee, The Portland Alliance, Volume 25, No. 12, December 2005, page 9.

The U.S. people support the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. by VN, Lao Ðộng Daily, Dec. 15, 2005 .

The Agent Orange victim delegation concluded its successful tour of the U.S. by VNA reporter in New York, Nhân Dân Daily, Dec. 14, 2005.

Agent Orange discoverer tries to make amends. by Linda Conner Lambeck, Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT), Dec. 10, 2005 .

Agent Orange victims: "The war continues in the bodies of Vietnamese". by Pepe Lorenzo, People's Weekly World Newspaper, Dec. 8, 2005.

Vietnamese reparations "tour": For me, a night of sadness, anger and partial redemption. by Jack Dalton, Dec. 7, 2005 .

Agent Orange victims speak by Russell Max Simon, December 4, 2005...

An old enemy comes to U.S. by Chau Lam, Newsday November 17, 2005, reprrinted in Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 2005 .

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange touring the U.S. by Paddy Colligan, Nov. 26, 2005 .

March 2006 International Conferene on Agent Orange: in Hanoi, Vietnam—The Call.

AFP English, November 28, 2005 at the Wall: Vietnamese, Americans highlight plight of Agent Orange victims

Chicago Tribune, November 25, 2005: Vietnamese aided on war poison claim
By Oscar Avila... Read here.

Washington, Nov. 26 (VNA) - C-Span,on Nov. 25 evening carried a segment presenting two books written by Philip Jones
Griffiths
, about Viet Nam and the consequences of Agent Orange/Dioxin in the war-torn country.

Soldiers and Scientists present Depleted Uranium—the Agent Orange of the Iraq War 11/10/2005 at the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture (Bronx, NY).

Solidarity message from Nodutdol for the Korean community development to VAVA delegation on November 16, 2005 at the Community Church of New York. See Programme.

Lao Dong (Labor Daily) reported 11/12/2005 on the victims of Agent Orange touring the United States... and how the U.S. Embassy denied Nguyen Muoi's visa because he is poor and unemployed...

Dedications by young Vietnamese to victims of Agent Orange. Click dioxinvietnam.blogspot (English) and chatdocdacam.info (Vietnamese)

November 6, 2005: International Day of Action in 6 countries: 10,642 email blitz. Read Appeal from Collectif Vietnam Dioxine in France.

From Vietnam to Bhopal: Monsanto's Agent Orange - Agent of death by S. Chatterjee

Ecology Prof Fukurawa Hisao of the Kyoto Univ. compared the U.S. use of Agent Orange to that of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagazaki. Read Lao Dong 11/4/2005.

Vietnam Children of Dioxin organizes a November 2005 tour of 6 cities in France for musician Nguyễn Thanh Tùng, a young Vietnamese victim of Agent Orange, performing solo on monochord.

Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center: Russian Scientists announced a universal treatment with peptide for victims of Agent Orange. See Lao Dong Oct 29, 2005

Brief by Agent Orange victims was submitted to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on September 30, 2005 against 36 US chemical companies. See full brief and comments.


Washington DC - Sept. 24, 2005: Agent Orange issue raised at the United for Peace and Justice national mass action against the war in Iraq. See picture story.


Ambassador Michael Marine said the U.S. Environment Protection Agency is collecting samples of soil in the Da Nang airport, a dioxin warehouse during the war, ... Read more...


Agent Orange victims are appealing the dismissal of their lawsuit against the US chemical firms that made and supplied the chemicals sprayed over Viet Nam during the war. Briefs will be submitted to the US Court of Appeals on September 30. Read Vietnam News, Sept. 20, 2005


Eurofins Ergo is testing dioxin level in Vietnam. Read Tuổi Trẻ Online Sept. 17, 2005


The story of Mai Giảng Vũ, Tuổi Trẻ Daily, Sept. 10, 2005.

Our Campaign and VAVA — a report from Hanoi, May 20, 2005 by Merle Ratner.

Meet with Dr Phan Thị Phi Phi, representative of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims suing the U.S. chemical companies at 1199 Bread & Roses Gallery, March 5, 2005 at 3:00 PM, Manhattan.

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