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New York Times | World Briefing | Asia
Vietnam: Report Details Unexploded Ordnance
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
More than a third of the land in six central Vietnamese provinces remains contaminated with land mines and unexploded bombs from the Vietnam War, according to a study released on Friday. In addition to mapping the unexploded ordnance, a project by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense cleared 3,345 acres of land. The Defense Ministry estimates that 16.3 million acres remain to be cleared. Vietnam says that more than 42,000 people have been killed by leftover explosives since the war ended in 1975.
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Robert McNamara dies
guardian.co.uk
Former secretary of defence under John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson was the architect of the Vietnam war
Full Article from The Guardian
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| 11 |
Healing New Wounds from an Old War
Brattleboro Reformer
Thursday, June 11, 2009
BRATTLEBORO -- The Vietnam War is still killing people, and a local group is trying to stop to that.
Tonight at 6 p.m., Brattleboro's Students for Renew, a student organization raising funds and providing education to aid the relief and recovery of unexploded landmines and bombs in Vietnam, is presenting a Celebration of Project Renew.
The hour-long event features speakers, the screening of "UXOs in Quang Tri," a film about the ongoing harm caused by explosives left behind in Vietnam and music by Red Heart the Ticker. The goal is breathe new life into Students for Renew -- and to compel action by evoking the same response in new people that Caroline Heydinger felt when she first became aware of the issue.
"I was in shock because I had no idea this was going on," said Heydinger, a BUHS senior and one of the organizers of this event.
According to Project Renew, a national program of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, some 350,000 tons of unexploded mines and bombs were left behind, and more than 1,000 Vietnamese people are killed or maimed every year -- one person every 480 minutes or so.
The catalyst for the local group is Bill Holiday, BUHS social students teacher and Keene State College adjunct professor, who journeyed to Vietnam with Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Friendship delegation and later worked with Heydinger on her capstone project about the issue. Holiday and Heydinger are the featured speakers tonight.
Also on the journey to Vietnam in 2007 was Reginald Martell, a student of Holiday's at KSC. Martell is now working toward his degree in the MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology) program at Marlboro Graduate School. As part of this students, Martell put together the film which will be shown. The hope is that the film will move people to get involved.
"I wanted people to feel what I felt when I was over there. It's not about making anybody feel guilty. It's about being responsible in a global community," Martell said.
As part of the film, Martell used a song, "Depression," by his pals Robin MacArthur and husband Tyler Gibbons, who make up Red Heart the Ticker. The song is not about this issue, but the song just fit, Martell said.
Red Heart the Ticker will perform that song and others.
Heydinger, who is off to attend Georgetown University in the fall, hopes that the event will inspire younger students to take up the cause.
"We're really working right now to attract underclassmen, so it can be a club in the future," said Heydinger. "Our main goal is to educate and to make people aware of the legacy of the Vietnam War."
The event has a suggested donation of $5, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Advance tickets are available at Everyone's Books and Vermon Artisan Designs in Brattleboro. Tickets are also available at the door.
For information, contact Dede Cummings at 802-254-9076 or Bill Holiday at 802-451-3490. Visit www.studentsforrenew.org.
-Jon Potter
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Green Mountain Observer - Students for Renew - at the BUHS Auditorium
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| 16 |
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Live Web Event
"Freedom Riders: Threatened, Attacked, Jailed," Panel Discussion
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM EST
The Commons Newspaper, WGBH – PBS, Brattleboro Union High School Social Studies and Vermont Public Television are collaborating on a panel discussion of a new film produced for The American Experience. The film is titled ‘Freedom Riders – Threatened, Attacked, Jailed’. It will premier on PBS in May 2011. The preview showing of the new WGBH documentary FREEDOM RIDERS will be held at the Brattleboro Union High School Auditorium, in Brattleboro Vermont, on March 16 at 1:00 PM. A second showing will be presented in the evening of the 16th. A panel discussion with local Civil Rights activists, BUHS students and organizations will follow the film. There will be opportunities for audience participation
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Wednesday February 9, 2011
7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Bill Holiday and Reginald Martell will share experiences and slides from a visit to the Republic of Vietnam in 2007.
An update will be given on the problem of UXO's (Unexploded Ordnance) left behind from the Vietnam War. There will be ample time for question & and answers.
They will explain the work of Students for Renew and Project Renew, show its web site, solicit ways to help eliminate the problem and show Reggie's (and possibly Country Joe McDonald's) film on UXO's today.
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Students for Renew Present:
A Celebration of Project Renew
Brattleboro Union High School Auditorium
Fairground Rd., Brattleboro, Vermont
Watch the event LIVE, on our webstream, SFR Live, starting at 6PM EST.
On June 11, at 6:00 p.m. in the BUHS auditorium, Brattleboro's Students for Renew, a student organization raising funds and providing education to aid the relief and recovery of unexploded landmines and ordinance in Vietnam, is presenting a Celebration of Project Renew. The public is invited to support this worthwhile cause and be a part of the evening’s events.
Guest Speakers
Guest speakers include Bill Holiday, Students for Renew founder, B.U.H.S. social studies teacher, and adjunct professor at Keene State College, who will lecture and present slides from his 2007 trip to Vietnam with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Friendship Delegation.
BUHS student, Caroline Heydinger, Vermont State Oratorical Champion and National Runner-Up, will present her capstone project about the continuing problem of land-mines and unexploded ordinance in central Vietnam and Project Renew’s efforts to aid victims unexploded ordnance weapons.
The celebration will include the world premier of Students for Renew's original short film, entitled "UXOs in Quang Tri," concerning the ongoing harm caused by war remnants. After the viewing, the film’s director, Reginald Martell, degree candidate in the MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology) program at Marlboro Graduate School, will take questions from the audience.
Musical Performance
The evening concludes with a musical performance from Red Heart the Ticker, fresh off their turn with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion.
Red Heart the Ticker is the musical collaboration of Robin MacArthur and Tyler Gibbons, a husband and wife duo from Marlboro, Vermont. Red Heart the Ticker was born when, in 2005, they built themselves a cabin in the woods of Vermont and lived without running water. As the long cold months of winter drew on they decided they would have to start playing music together to combat cabin fever. Red Heart the Ticker (red heart for warmth, ticker for rhythm) was born. Their song, entitled “Depression,” is an integral part of Students for Renew's original short film, and they will perform this song as well.
The event has a suggested donation of $5.00, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
For information, contact...
Dede Cummings at 802-254-9076
or
Bill Holiday at 802-451-3490
