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Ms. Que BanhNguyễn Thị Bình is a granddaughter of the Nationalist leader Phan Chu Trinh. She grew up in a land that had been under French rule since 1858. The country’s resources were plundered, & the people exploited as cheap labour & reduced to grinding poverty. So determined were the French to maintain their colonial hold at any cost, they collaborated in power-sharing with Japanese <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascist</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/occupiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#occupiers</a> who brought horror & starvation from 1940-1945.Despite this, led by the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietMinh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietMinh</a> Front, people of Vietnam triumphed in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AugustRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AugustRevolution</a> of 1945 & the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRV) was declared on September 2nd. Democratic elections took place in January 1946 but French troops, with the open support of the US & Britain, attacked the new Viet Minh administration in the south of the country & the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarOfResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarOfResistance</a> against <a href="https://beige.party/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#France</a> began.Binh studied French at Lycée Sisowath in Cambodia & worked as a teacher during the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#French</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonisation</a> of Vietnam. She joined <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamCommunistParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnamCommunistParty</a> in 1948. Upon joining, she immediately began work as a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grassroots</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiColonial</a> organiser. From 1945-1951, she took part in intellectual protest movements against French <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonists</a>. She was arrested & jailed between 1951-1953 in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saigon</a> by the French <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonial</a> authority in Vietnam. She was repeatedly interrogated under torture & sentenced to death but was reprieved & released in very poor health in 1954.Upon release from prison, Binh went north to work in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Hanoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanoi</a> for the National <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomensUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensUnion</a>. Her job took her to many localities where she witnessed first-hand the impact of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> & the French War on ordinary people & especially women & children. 1954 was a year of victory for the Vietnamese army. The defeated French were forced to sign the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GenevaAccords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenevaAccords</a> recognising the independence, sovereignty & unity of Vietnam. The country was temporarily split in two at the 17th parallel, with the French moving to the south from which they would withdraw, while the Viet Minh went to the north. A general election for the government of a united country was to follow within 2 years. But it never happened. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> came centre stage to ensure that the Accords were never implemented. Driven by strategic interests in the region, it made sure that Vietnam stayed divided – preventing an election that would have swept Ho Chi Minh to power with 80% support, while bankrolling & controlling the reactionary <a href="https://beige.party/tags/regime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regime</a> of Diem-Nhu south of the 17th parallel. This regime violently suppressed all opposition, executing of thousands of Viet Minh supporters & condemning hundreds of thousands to concentration camps and prisons.In response, the NLF (for liberation of South Vietnam & unification) was formed in 1960. Nguyen Thi Chau Sa was assigned to the Foreign Affairs Section of its Re-unification Committee & given the name Nguyen Thi Binh (Peace). From 1962 onwards, her high-profile diplomatic work, took her across the world. She represented the aspirations of the people of Vietnam in every country & forum she visited, while the world’s strongest <a href="https://beige.party/tags/imperialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imperialist</a> power made all-out war on her small country.During the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnamWar</a>, she became a member of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietcong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietcong</a> Central Committee and a vice-chairperson of the South Vietnamese <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomensLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensLiberation</a> Association. In 1969 she was appointed foreign minister of the Provisional <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revolutionary</a> Government of the Republic of South Vietnam. A fluent French speaker, Bình played a major role in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ParisPeaceAccords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ParisPeaceAccords</a> - an agreement that was supposed to end the war & restore peace in Vietnam.She was expected to be replaced by a male Vietcong representative after preliminary talks, but became one of the group's most visible international public figures. During this time, she was famous for representing Vietnamese women with her elegant & gracious style, and was referred to by the media as "Madame Bình". She was also referred to as the "Viet Cong Queen" by Western media.After the war, she was appointed Minister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1982-1986; the first female minister ever in the history of Vietnam. Binh was a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party from 1987-1992. She was the Deputy Chair of the Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission & Chair of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee. The National Assembly elected her twice to position of Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the terms 1992–1997 & 1997–2002.Bình has authored several op-eds, including a one on the state newspaper Nhân Dân in which she voiced concerns that the current personnel policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam have allowed some "incompetent and opportunistic" individuals to enter the party's apparatus. She also criticized the Party's focus on increasing membership at the expense of "quality."From March 2009-2014, she served as a member of the support committee of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RussellTribunal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RussellTribunal</a> on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a>.Madame Bình became a source of inspiration & namesake for Madame Binh Graphics Collective, a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RadicalLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadicalLeft</a> all-women poster, printmaking, & street art collective based in NYC from 1970s-1980s. Many Americans in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiWar</a> movement were proud to wear T-shirts printed with the portrait of "Madame Binh". By then, she had become a symbol for female soldiers of the legitimacy of Vietnam's efforts.Madame Bình has been awarded many prestigious awards & honours, including the Order of Ho Chi Minh & Resistance Order (First Class). In 2021, President of Vietnam Nguyễn Xuân Phúc awarded her the 75-year Party Membership Commemorative Medal. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, the Government of Vietnam commissioned the official portraits for 12 former foreign ministers from 1945-2020. Nguyễn Thị Bình was included among them as the only South Vietnamese foreign minister & the only woman.Ref: Nguyen Thi Binh". Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (3rd ed.). Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55553-421-9Ref: Triantafillou, Eric (3 May 2012). "Graphic Uprising". The Brooklyn Rail. Ref: <a href="https://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/about-rtop/patrons.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/about-rtop/patrons.html</a>Ref: Hy V. Luong (2003), Postwar Vietnam: dynamics of a transforming society, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0847698653<a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsianMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseRevolutionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnameseRevolutionaries</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColonialResistance</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Communist</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnameseHistory</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsianHistory</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthEastAsia</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Viet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Viet</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geopolitics</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USWarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USWarOnVietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LongLiveVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LongLiveVietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnameseSovereignty</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LearnHistory</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TootSEA</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomenOfTheResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenOfTheResistance</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Changemakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Changemakers</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Feminist</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TrailblazingWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrailblazingWomen</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomenWhoChangeTheWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenWhoChangeTheWorld</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietCongWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietCongWomen</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DebunkingUSLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DebunkingUSLies</a>

Ms. Que BanhNguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 – 15 October 1964) was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnamese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietnamese</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolutionary</a> & member of the NLF (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by ARVN forces while trying to assassinate US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara & Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964.Trỗi became the first publicly executed member of the NLF. His execution was filmed, and he remained defiant to the end. His last words before his execution in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saigon</a> :"You are journalists and so you must be well informed about what is happening. It is the Americans who have committed aggression on our country, it is they who have been killing our people with planes and bombs ... I have never acted against the will of my people. It is against the Americans that I have taken action."When a priest offered Trỗi absolution, he refused, saying: "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned." As the first shots were fired, he called out: "Long live Vietnam!"His wife wrote a biography book on his short but brave life. Phan Thi Quyen (c. 1965) Nguyen van troi tel qu'il etait (Nguyễn Văn Trỗi As He Was).<a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsianMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseRevolutionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnameseRevolutionaries</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColonialResistance</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Communist</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnameseHistory</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsianHistory</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthEastAsia</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Viet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Viet</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geopolitics</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USWarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USWarOnVietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LongLiveVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LongLiveVietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnameseSovereignty</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LearnHistory</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TootSEA</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResistanceFighters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ResistanceFighters</a>

Ms. Que BanhMy Mom had been sharing many stories about how my Dad was a human rights activist in his teens into his 20s - while attending university for veterinary career(he graduated with full honours). Dad used to gather up fellow youths & young adults in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saigon</a> to organize for protests. He was branded an enemy of the state & was arrested/detained/tortured multiple times before I was born. Mom said that I take after my Dad in our shared passion & determination to try & make progressive changes in the world.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsianMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsianActivists</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FamilyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FamilyHistory</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResistanceFamily" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ResistanceFamily</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietnam</a>

Ms. Que BanhListening to:<a href="https://trucmai.bandcamp.com/album/s-i-g-n?label=3187674626" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://trucmai.bandcamp.com/album/s-i-g-n?label=3187674626</a>Not many cities in the world are gifted with a timeless anthem of their own. We all know “New York, New York”, a song widely known across its city borders. For many Vietnamese, the beautiful Cha Cha Cha tune “Sài Gòn” has a similar reputation.The tune was written by Hanoi-born composer Y-Van. Like many of his generation, he moved to the South in 1954 after The Geneva Accords partitioned Vietnam temporarily into two states. There he became one of the most famous and prolific songwriters in South Vietnamese pop music. His revered songs are still sung and covered to this day.“Sài Gòn”, which he wrote in 1965, was recorded for the first time by Saigonese-born singer Trúc Mai for the Sóng Nhạc label. It is one of his most iconic compositions and has been recorded countless times since.Trúc Mai rose to prominence during the late 1950s as a popular headliner in the cabaret circuit of Saigon, earning her the title, "Nữ Hoàng Mambo" (the Queen of the Mambo). Her reputation helped make the 1965 recording of “Sài Gòn” an instant hit. It was so successful that it was one of only a few songs to appear on multiple 7” vinyl releases.However, that same year, Trúc Mai took a seven-year hiatus from the music industry to take care of her family. But she returned in 1972 to record “Sài Gòn” again, this time with another producer, Duy Khánh – also a successful singer and musician. They released this track on his “reel 2 reel” tape series, “Cỏ May”.After the war ended in 1975, Trúc Mai and her family left Vietnam to begin their new lives in the United States, where she continued her successful music career with the overseas community.The Sài Gòn sung about in the song refers geographically to today's Districts 1 & 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, the name given in 1975, after reunification. But colloquially, the city is still affectionately called Sài Gòn by many of its residents, and even the airport retains the ‘SGN’ designation as its abbreviation.Despite being recorded over 55 years ago, the unbroken popularity of this life-affirming ode to the city is proven when, whether in Sài Gòn or Hanoi; the south or north; whether young or old, when the song plays, everyone immediately joins in to sing along to the chorus…Saigon đẹp lắm Saigon ơi! Saigon ơi! (Saigon is so beautiful! Saigon oi! Saigon oi!)The two pre 75 mixes are supplemented with an edit by Saigon Supersound producer Jan Hagenkötter who tries to preserve the vibes of the original and at the same time to wrap it in a contemporary garment. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saigon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BornInSaigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BornInSaigon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MyBirthplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MyBirthplace</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VivaVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VivaVietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietnam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsianMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VietnameseMusic</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a>

Ms. Que Banh<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Transcription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transcription</a> of my <a href="https://beige.party/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deaf</a> folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with <a href="https://beige.party/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#community</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solidarity</a>, to call for a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PermanentCeasefire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PermanentCeasefire</a> in support of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestinians</a> who are suffering <a href="https://beige.party/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#famine</a> & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/genocidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocidal</a> violence under <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israeli</a> occupational forces.My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USinvasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USinvasion</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarOnVietnam</a>. I was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarChild</a> conceived & born under active shelling & had <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IntergenerationalTrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IntergenerationalTrauma</a> pre & post birth.We were <a href="https://beige.party/tags/displaced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#displaced</a> from our homes & survived in a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RefugeeCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RefugeeCamp</a> in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarRefugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarRefugees</a>, seeking <a href="https://beige.party/tags/asylum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asylum</a>.My patriarch family lived in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cholon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cholon</a> the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a> District in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saigon</a> & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthVietnam</a>. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CarpetBombed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarpetBombed</a> twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> after <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> carpet bombed the area. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USmilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USmilitary</a> used <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnamese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietnamese</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/civilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#civilians</a> as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarMunitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarMunitions</a> including <a href="https://beige.party/tags/biochemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biochemical</a> warfare like <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AgentOrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AgentOrange</a> & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NerveGasBombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NerveGasBombs</a> on our peoples.Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal <a href="https://beige.party/tags/biowarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biowarfare</a> chemical uses by the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.The USA bombed our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a>, our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/hospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hospitals</a>, our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/temples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#temples</a>, our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResidentialAreas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ResidentialAreas</a> - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResistanceForces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ResistanceForces</a> also used <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TunnelSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TunnelSystems</a> & some of them are now part of an <a href="https://beige.party/tags/educational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#educational</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LivingMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LivingMuseum</a>.Vietnam is now <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SovereignNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SovereignNation</a> because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DiplomaticNegotiations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiplomaticNegotiations</a>. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IllegalOccupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IllegalOccupation</a> by Israel.You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>. True <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democratic</a> states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PressFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PressFreedom</a> to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalists</a>. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple <a href="https://beige.party/tags/InternationalLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalLaws</a> so openly & so disrespectfully.Israel has become too <a href="https://beige.party/tags/arrogant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arrogant</a> that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> continuing to put their <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarProfiteer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarProfiteer</a> interests over <a href="https://beige.party/tags/humanitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanitarian</a> & global <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PublicInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicInterests</a>.At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.Free Palestine!

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