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The American and Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange will pass by:

11/13-11/17/2005: New York City, 11/16 event, 11/17 event
11/18-11/21/2005: Boston MA
11/22-11/24/2005: Philadelphia PA
11/25-11/29/2005: Washington, DC
11/29-11/30/3005: Raleigh/Durham NC
11/30-12/02/2005: Chicago IL & Milwaukee WI
12/02-12/04/2005: Santa Fe NM
12/05-12/08/2005: Portland OR & Seattle WA
12/08-12/12/2005: The Bay Area CA
12/13/2005: Leaving for Vietnam

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Washington DC Events
Friday through Monday 11/25-28/05
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ars do not end when the bombs stop falling and the fighting ceases. The devastation continues long after, in the land and in the minds and bodies of the affected population. As part of healing the wounds of war, Vietnamese survivors of Agent Orange, who still seek justice more than 30 years after the end of the war, will be coming to the United States to meet us.

Today, three million Vietnamese suffer the effects of chemical defoliants used by the United States during the Vietnam War. Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers are also affected. The use of Agent Orange has caused birth defects in hundreds of thousands of children in Vietnam and the U.S. — the second and third generations of those who were exposed to Agent Orange decades ago.

While U.S. veterans have received some measure of compensation, after years of struggle, Vietnamese victims have not received a single cent of compensation or humanitarian aid from the U.S. government or the chemical manufacturers. Vietnamese citizens have filed a lawsuit to hold the chemical companies responsible for the manufacture of Agent Orange and to achieve justice.

For 30 days in November 2005 Agent Orange victims from Vietnam will visit the U.S. at the invitation of veterans, Vietnamese American and peace activists. This delegation includes:

Đặng Thị Hồng Nhựt (68) – a woman from Hồ Chí Minh City with multiple miscarriages between 1973 and 1980 after exposure to Agent Orange around May 1965. Nguyễn Mười (22) – the son of a veteran of the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) from Huế who has spina bifida as a result of his 59 year old father’s exposure to Agent Orange in 1970. His mother had two miscarriages in 1974 and 1976. His visa was denied by the U.S. government.
Hồ Sỹ Hải (61) – an army truck driver from Thái Bình who suffers from chronic hepatitis, gastro-duodenal ulcer, enterolitis and enlargement of prostate as a result of his exposure in Atopo, and Quang Tri between 1965 and 1973.
Dr. Nguyễn Trọng Nhân (72) – Not a survivor. An expert and former president of Vietnam Red Cross, representing the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA).


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ars do not end when the bombs stop falling and the fighting ceases. The devastation continues long after, in the land and in the minds and bodies of the affected population. Today, three million Vietnamese suffer the effects of chemical defoliants used by the United States during the Vietnam War. In order to deny food and protection to those deemed to be "the enemy," the U.S. defoliated the forests of Vietnam with the deadly chemicals Agent Orange, White, Blue, Pink, Green and Purple. Agent Orange, which was contaminated with trace amounts of TCDD Dioxin — the most toxic chemical known to science — disabled and sickened soldiers, civilians and several generations of their offspring on two continents. With this campaign, we seek to fulfill our responsibility by insisting that our government honor its moral and legal responsibility to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Read more.

What's New

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.

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