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US
House holds hearing on Agent Orange in Vietnam - June 4,
2009
Subcommittee on Asia, the
Pacific and the Global Environment
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega
(D-AS), Chairman
Transcript [PDF] |
Webcast [Real Player]
BRIEFING BY:
His Excellency Ngo Quang Xuan
Vice Chairman
Foreign Relations Committee
National Assembly of Vietnam
(Co-Chair, US-Vietnam Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin and
also former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United Nations)
WITNESSES:
Panel I
The Honorable Scot Marciel
Deputy Assistant Secretary and Ambassador for ASEAN
Affairs
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Panel II
Mr. Charles Bailey
Director
Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin
Ford Foundation
Mr. Vo Quy
Professor
Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (CRES)
Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
(Member, US-Vietnam Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin)
Ms. Mary Dolan-Hogrefe
Vice President and Senior Adviser
National Organization on Disability
(Member, US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent
Orange/Dioxin and also Director of the World Committee
on Disability)
Mr. Rick Weidman
Executive Director for Policy & Government Affairs
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA)
Last Ghost of War on PBS

For viewing dates and times
check you local PBS station at
http://www.pbs.org. Most of the stations are showing the
film on their digital station PBS - World.
Last Ghost of War
looks at the on-going consequences of the use of chemical
defoliants and herbicides during the war in Vietnam through
the lens of the current lawsuit against Dow, Monsanto, and
35 other chemical companies that manufactured the products.
Who was responsible? What should be done today?
WLP is working with documentary
filmmakers Janet Gardner and Pham Thai to coordinate
screenings of this new film. To arrange a screening in your
community contact
shammond@warlegacies.org.
More information about the film is at the
Last Ghost of War
Website or at
The
Gardner Group Website
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Recent
News:
WBUR's Here and Now - Feeling the Pain
in Laos
BBC's Jill McGivering's story on the impact
of UXOs in Laos. Aired June 11, 2009.
Webcast
*****
National Organization for Disabled report
US Vietnam
Veterans and Agent Orange: Understanding the Impact Forty
Years Later June 2, 2009
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Vietnam's Lingering Ghost: Facing the
Legacy of Agent Orange
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HDNET -
World Report
reveals
the ghost that the United States left behind when our troops
left Vietnam Agent Orange. Greg Dobbs traveled to Vietnam
for a report that reveals hundreds of people - especially
children born years after the war - suffer from grotesque,
debilitating deformities, mental retardation and cancer.
Many Vietnamese believe these conditions are a direct result
of Agent Orange. Should the U.S. be doing more to help the
children who are still suffering over 30 years after the
war? Available for viewing on
iTunes for $1.99.
*****
The FY2009 Omnibus spending bill passed
by congress and signed by President Obama in early March
contained an additional appropriation of $3 million “to
continue environmental remediation of dioxin contamination
at Da Nang Airport and related Health activities in nearby
communities in Vietnam.”
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On March 2, 2009 the US Supreme Court
denied the writ of certiorari filed by the lawyers for the
Vietnamese plaintiffs to hear the case against the chemical
companies that produced Agent Orange. At the same time the
court also refused the writ of certiorari for the suit filed
on behalf of US veterans against the chemical companies.
This brings an end to the legal battle against the chemical
companies.
Agent Orange Events:
Agent Orange:
Landscape, Body, Image Exhibit
at UC Riverside,
California Museum of Photography May 2 - August 29, 2009
Agent Orange: Landscape, Body, Image features
photographs and installations by Goro Nakamura, Dinh Q. Lê,
Doan Duc Minh, and Binh Danh. Curated by Lan Duong,
Assistant Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, UC
Riverside and Christina Schwenkel, Assistant Professor,
Anthropology, UC Riverside.
More info
New Books on Agent
Orange:
The History,
Use, Disposition and Environmental Fate of Agent Orange
By Alvin Young (April 2009) This book
was commissioned by The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary
of Defense (Installations and Environment) with the intent
of providing documentation of the knowledge on the history,
use, disposition and environmental fate of Agent Orange and
its associated dioxin.

"INVISIBLE
CHILDREN: The Third Generation of Agent Orange Children in
Vietnam" by Marilyn M. Tycer.
"Invisible Children" explores the lives of 45
children at the Peace Village II in HCM City, Viet Nam who
are affected by the Vietnam War-era herbicide Agent Orange.
Available at
Amazon.com or at
Createspace.
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About the artwork in
the top panel: The first three works are by the Vietnamese
artist Vu Giang Huong. Giang Huong's late husband,
Dr Le Cao Dai is profiled in the third painting. Dr Dai was
one of the leading Vietnamese scientists researching the
impacts of Agent Orange. The last painting of the girl
erasing Dioxin is by the artist Nguyen Du. This work
was commissioned by WLP for a special exhibit on Agent
Orange by Vietnamese artists . This and other the 29 other
works are available for exhibit in the US.
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