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Veterans for Peace Chapter 72,
Education
WithOut Borders,
KBOO 90.7FM,
PSU Multicultural Center, and
Students
for Unity
will be hosting three Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange and their
doctor Dr. Nguyen Trong Nhân, Former President of the Vietnam
Red Cross, representing the Vietnam Association for Victims of
Agent Orange/Dioxin. See KBOO
interview by Miae Kim nd Report
back with pictures by Dan Shea, December 29, 2005.
The tour will address the medical, environmental, and legal issues
associated with chemical warfare.
The overall goals of the tour include:
- Educating our friends
and neighbors about the suffering caused by Agent Orange in
Vietnam and in other wars our government has waged. In each
city the tour visits, we would like to develop a core of people
willing to take on activities to support the goals of the Campaign
- Building solidarity
between U.S., Vietnamese American and Vietnamese victims of
Agent Orange.
- Achieving justice
for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims by:
— Supporting their lawsuit against the chemical manufacturers
— Pressing the U.S. government to provide significant and meaningful
compensation.
— Getting signatures on the international petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/AO.
- Supporting the work
of the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin
by raising funds.
 It
should also lead us to question our occupation in Iraq, and our
use of depleted uranium and other forms of chemical weapons.
I am asking you to participate by printing your own flyers and
distribute them in your own communities, announce the event at
every opportunity you can, post it on your list serves and any
community calendars you think relevant.
You can make a donation to Veterans For Peace Chapter72 and help
us with travel and lodging costs, and printing for this event
or future events.
Send to:
Veterans For Peace Chapter 72
c/o Grant Remington
2503 NE Dunckley
Portland, Oregon 97212
November 2005 justice
tour
Press release
For Information Contact: Dan Shea 503.661.1317
Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange
Meet U.S. Veterans of War in Vietnam
Veterans Vow to Fight for Justice for Vietnam’s Agent Orange Survivors!
On December 7th, 2005, at PSU Multicultural
Center, a delegation of Vietnamese victims of
Agent Orange will meet for the first time with U.S. veterans also
suffering from the wounds they sustained in the war in Vietnam.
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:
- Đặng
Thị Hồng Nhựt
who suffered multiple miscarriages due to Agent Orange
- Hồ
Sỹ Hải
who suffers from chronic hepatitis, ulcer, enterolitis, unstable
blood pressure, and prostate cancer after being exposed to Agent
Orange
- Nguyễn
Mười.
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.
Nguyễn Trọng 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 visit of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims is part of a
national 10 city speaking tour.
The national 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.
Local sponsors, Veterans for Peace Ch72, PSU’s Multicultural
Center, KBOO 90.7FM Community Radio, Students For Unity.
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