Citizen Soldier’s Agent Orange Archives
Shared by Vietnam veteran Michael Uhl, with this introduction: In early 1978, Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit dedicated to advocacy on behalf of GIs and veterans, became involved in the controversial Agent Orange issue when...
Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts
Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty. PHOTO: Many Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange wind up being cared for in orphanages. The kids in this photo live in an orphanage...
Ending War, American-Style
This Tomgram posted by Andrew Bacevitch on September 10, 2019, with introduction by Nick Turse, speaks to the moral bankruptcy of the United States in regards to its historic and ongoing reckless war-making. As the U.S....
Live from Spokane: Battling the Viet Nam war from the inside
Spokane Public Radio's Doug Nadvornick hosted the Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Inland Journal program featuring interviews recorded at the Veterans For Peace convention held days earlier in Spokane, Washington. The podcast...
Viet Nam: One Man’s Atonement in an Ocean of Grief
The following essay, penned by Viet Nam veteran Chuck Searcy, is a chapter in How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole" Countries (Clarity Press, 2018), a book of essays compiled and edited by Cynthia McKinney after the crass,...
Media coverage of Agent Orange widens its scope
In Public Radio International's The World broadcast of July 24, 2019, host Marco Werman interviews Susan Hammond with the War Legacies Project about the health effects of Agent Orange still experienced by people in...
700-pound bomb found in middle of river in Nghe An Province
Thanh Chuong district residents discovered the bomb, partly exposed in the water, when they went to drop their fishing nets in the Ro River. Due to a heat wave, the river, more than 20m wide, had little water.
Agent Orange barrels found in Oregon Lake
What the heck?! Agent Orange barrels found at the bottom of Wallowa Lake in Eastern Oregon? The story is ongoing... Last August, recreational divers discovered barrels labeled as containing one of two defoliants -- 2,4-D...
Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy
This post originally appeared at www.e360.yale.edu. From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three...
Overcoming War Legacies: The Road to Reconciliation and Future Cooperation Between the United States and Vietnam
This post originally appeared at the aspeninstitute.org MARCH 26, 2019 • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM On March 26th the governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in...
Ambassadors visit RENEW-NPA’s all-female clearance team
Photo: RENEW-NPA all-female field clearance team and four female ambassadors, front row (from left to right Deborah Paul, Canada; Wendy Matthews, New Zealand; Grete Løchen, Norway; and Beatrice Maser Mallor,...
Project RENEW joins with Quang Tri Province authorities and other mine action organizations in meeting with U.S. Senators on explosive remnants of war
From 16 to 21 April 2019, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the most senior member of the U.S. Congress, led an official bipartisan US Senate delegation of nine Senators to visit Vietnam during the Senate’s April recess.
Project RENEW shares tools and skills to reduce UXO injuries to make Viet Nam safer
Project RENEW & Quang Ngai Province’s Red Cross co-organized a Mine Risk Education Inception workshop in Quang Ngai Province recently.
Meet the Team Leader of Vietnam’s First All-Female Clearance Team
At age 30, Nguyen Thi Thuy has started in a job that everyone in Vietnam believed that only men could do. This mother of one daughter now leads an all-female clearance team of 16 members for clearing cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war contaminated land in Quang Tri Province.
Vietnam honours US woman for Agent Orange relief work
Hanoi (VNA) – President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Nguyen Phuong Nga on April 16 presented the Friendship Order, a notable distinction of the Vietnamese State, to Executive Director of the War Legacies Project (WLP) Susan Marie Hammond.
Patrick Leahy: War legacies and the expanding U.S.-Vietnam partnership
When I became a senator for Vermont in 1975, one of the first votes I cast was for a law to stop funding the war in Vietnam. That law passed by one vote…. Words cannot adequately describe the magnitude of the catastrophe of that war for the people of both countries.
Leahy Heads Bipartisan Senate Delegation In Visits To The Korea DMZ, And Vietnam
A bipartisan official U.S. Senate delegation of nine Senators will visit South Korea and Vietnam for meetings with government and military leaders April 14 thru April 23.
Unexploded bombs continue to haunt Hà Giang
HÀ GIANG — Residents of Thanh Thuỷ Commune in Vị Xuyên District said they are still occasionally startled by an explosion somewhere in the mountains nearby, a cruel reminder of a bloody border war 40 years ago.
The toxic legacy of the Vietnam War
This article originally appeared at the bbc.com Agent Orange was the most notorious chemical defoliant sprayed by US forces over Vietnam to destroy jungles and vegetation during the Vietnam war. Agent Orange contained...
Why there is Agent Orange in Newark
https://youtu.be/DYwPQoF1QDw Published on Dec 12, 2018Over 50 years ago the “Agent Orange” herbicide was manufactured along the banks of the Passiac River in northern New Jersey, USA. The poison that drained from the...
Quang Tri mobilises resources to settle post-war landmines
Unexploded bombs and mines found in Quang Tri province (Photo: VNA) This post originally appeared at VIETNAM + / Vietnam News Agency Quang Tri (VNA) – The central province of Quang Tri has mobilised more than 20 projects...
U.S. prepares for biggest-ever Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam
U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (R) meets Vietnam's Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam October 17, 2018. REUTERS/KHAM/POOL REUTERS Phil Stewart BIEN HOA AIR BASE, Vietnam (Reuters) -...
RENEW project handles 590 explosive devices in Quang Tri
Various explosive devices found at the construction site in Quang Tri (Photo: nhandan.com.vn) VNA LÚC : SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2018 - 17:52:00 This post originally appeared at en.vietnamplus.vn. Quang Tri (VNA) – A team of...
VN welcomes Monsanto ruling: Foreign ministry
Photo: Deputy foreign ministry spokesperson Nguyễn Phương Trà responded to questions from the media during a press conference held in Hà Nội on Thursday. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang This article originally appeared...
August 10, AGENT ORANGE DAY
It is the 57th anniversary of the 1961 first use of Agent Orange herbicides on the environment and people of Vietnam. For 10 years following, the US waged chemical warfare (along with its several other forms of war) on...
War-ravaged Vietnamese province receives $10 mil from Norway for mine clearance
CAPTION: Unexploded ordnance are found in Vietnam's central province of Quang Tri. Photo by VnExpress/Quang Ha This article originally appeared at VNExpress International on April 18, 2018. By Vu Minh The Norwegian...
REMARKS at Spring Action 2018 for VFP
13 April 2018 Peace be with you. I am the Reverend James Swarts, President of the Rochester chapter of Veterans For Peace. Thank you for welcoming us here today to the House of Mercy for the kick off to Spring Action...
Ghosts of war: My journalist father’s Vietnam odyssey, revisited
'I was always envious of Dad,' Globe foreign correspondent Eric Reguly writes of his father, Robert, shown here in South Vietnam in 1967, wearing U.S. Army fatigues he bought shortly after arriving in the country as a...
Congress Approves $30 Million for UXO Sector in Laos for FY2018
This press release originally appeared at legaciesofwar.org. Congress has allocated $30 million to the unexploded ordnance (UXO) sector in Laos for fiscal year 2018, fulfilling a multi-year pledge made in 2016 totaling...
The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.
Photo: A man who was injured in 2011, while digging for metal to sell, by a bomb that had been dropped by American planes during the Vietnam War. Jorge Silva/Reuters. Dear all - This is an academic list serve, not a...
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