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Last Ghost of War Film
Screenings
WLP is working with documentary
film makers Janet Gardner and Pham Quoc Thai to coordinate
screenings of their new documentary Last Ghost of
War. In the film we meet victims who are
plaintiffs in a class action suit against 32 US chemical
companies. These Vietnamese and US victims are seeking
compensation and justice. The question is were these
dioxin-laden herbicides chemical weapons? And if so, who
should be held accountable in the wake of what was allegedly
the largest chemical warfare operation in history?
Attorneys, activists and scientists take us to a new
battlefield.
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Public Screenings with
Q&A to follow will be held at:
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY:
Saturday, Feb. 24th, 2 - 4:00 pm
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum , 71 Hamilton Street, Old
Queens campus - New Brunswick
RIDER UNIVERSITY: Wednesday,
March 28th, 7 pm Sweigert Business Auditorium
Room 115, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, N. J.
Cornell University, Friday March 30th, Time
TBA. Ithaca, NY
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: Tuesday,
April 3rd 3 pm
Philadelphia, PA
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Saturday,
April 7, 2- 4:00 pm
McCormick Hall Room 101, off Washington Road on Nassau
Street campus.
Reception to follow. For a campus map:
www.princeton.edu.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY:
Thursday, April 20th, time TBA
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
ASIA SOCIETY: Tuesday, May 1st,
6:30 - 8 pm
Park Ave. at 70th St. New York City. Panel discussion and
reception to follow
JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Wednesday, May 2,
5 pm and 6:15 pm. Hall 630T, 899
10th Avenue, New York, NY
CANTOR FILM CENTER,
Monday June 11, 2007, 6:30 pm. 38 E 8th Street,
New York, NY
Followed by a Panel discussion with Ramsey
Clark, Vinnie Burrows, the film producers,
lawyers and veterans.
Articles:
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Philadelphia
Inquirer April, 3, 2007
Interview with Janet Gardner, on WBAI June 7,
2007
Interview with Pham Quoc Thai on WBAI June
7, 2007
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Agent Orange and
the Environment:
From Research to Remediation
WLP sponsored a speaking tour of the US for Phung Tuu
Boi, Director of the Assistance for Nature
Conservation and Community Development Center (ANCODEC) in Hanoi.
Mr. Boi is also on the staff of the Forest Inventory and
Planning Institute (FIPI). For the past three decades, he has been
the primary Vietnamese scientist studying the effects on the
environment of herbicides and defoliants used from 1961-1971 in the
Vietnam War. Currently he is working on a project through the NGO
he founded (ANCODEC) which tries to remediate Agent Orange
contaminated areas in central Vietnam through tree
planting projects.
Mr. Boi
spoke at the following locations from March 18 - April 7,
2007:
University of North Carolina - School of Public Health
Association of Asian Studies Conference Boston, MA
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Columbia
University, New York, NY
Ryder University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Portland, OR
University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ.
Contact
shammond@warlegacies.org
for more information. PDF
of Mr. Boi's Powerpoint Presentation |
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Past Conferences and Events: |
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Viet Nam Association of Agent
Orange Victims
International Conference Hanoi, March 28 - 29, 2006
Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin
in Vietnam - The Expectations
Hanoi, March 16 - 17, 2006
French - Vietnam Friendship Association
Agent Orange Conference,
Paris March 11-12, 2005
Agent Orange Research and Policy Update Meeting
July 8, 2003 in Washington, DC. Press
release
US-Vietnam Scientific Conference on Human Health and
Environmental Effects of Agent Orange/Dioxins (Hanoi,
March 2002):
Environmental Conference on
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (Stockholm, July 2002):
Statement from the Stockholm Agent Orange Conference
July 2002
The Ecological Effects of the
Vietnam War, (September, 2002, Yale University
School of Nursing, New Haven Connecticut)
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