Viet Nam

What Do You Do When a Child is Burning?: A review of the film The Camden 28

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She could now understand her protesting son, because the trial revealed the lies which killed her other son.

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Camden 28 Trial Opening Statement

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Nike Supplier Closes Unionized Factory, Shifts Work to Vietnam

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On February 22, 2007, the unionized BJ&B garment factory in the Dominican Republic suddenly announced that it was closing and would lay off all workers. The owners of the factory are shifting the work to Vietnam, where independent unions are banned, and possibly to Bangladesh, where unions are banned in "export processing zones."

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Vietnamese Lawyer Jailed for Union Advocacy

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The state-owned union is not interested in organizing strikes. When workers initiate strikes, they're classified as illegal.

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Released from Vietnamese Prison After 26 Years, Buddhist Monk Reissues Call for Democracy

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The prison authorities never informed Thich Thien Minh's family. His brother thought he had died in the camp.

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Manifesto for Democracy in Vietnam

Authors: Bloc 8406

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The one-party political regime must be buried, once and for all, in the dustbin of history.

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Looking for Resistance, Reconciliation, & Di An: a US Veteran in Vietnam

Authors: Steve Morse

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I was pleased to travel in a Viet Nam not under military attack by a foreign power.

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Bringing the War Home Justice for Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims

Authors: Merle Ratner

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The news was devastating. Two weeks after a successful speaking tour of the US in June 2007, two of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims on the delegation were dead.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong and Mr. Nguyen Van Quy, suffering respectively from terminal breast and stomach cancer, had come to share their stories with the people of the US.

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A Senator Exhorts: De-fund the War

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They will some day curse us for our pitiful willingness to let the Executive carry the burden that the Constitution places on us.

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The US Uses Nuclear Weapons the Way Armed Robbers Use Guns

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Authors: Paul Joseph

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Paul Joseph, reviews Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World Nuclear weapons are different. We need to think differently too.

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