AOVN Lawsuit
From: Nguyen Nguyet <minhnguyet80@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: vern.weitzel@undp.org, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: AOVN lawsuit
Dear all,
I am doing a thesis on American journalistic opinions about the Agent Orange lawsuit. Is there anybody who could provide relevant information? Or could you please give out your own assessments, or of others? I am a Vietnamese, that is why I could not travel to the US to do some research.
My deepest regards,
MinhNguyet
Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet,
Faculty of Foreign Communications,
Institute For Journalism and Communications, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
From vern.weitzel@undp.org Thu Mar 31 22:26:49 2005
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:26:03 +0700
From: Vern Weitzel <vern.weitzel@undp.org>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
Hi Nguyet,
Have you been on the Agent Orange Working Group list (we're also in Ha Noi). We have been covering that case for some time and have had among others members of the legal team on the list.
Vern
From Jeffrey.English@RMIT.EDU.VN Thu Mar 31 22:34:30 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:37:25 +0700
From: "Jeffrey, English" <Jeffrey.English@RMIT.EDU.VN>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: vern.weitzel@undp.org, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
Hi Vern and Nguyet,
I would very much like to get on that list. Many of my law students ask where to find information on Agent Orange.
Thanks for your help.
Jeffrey
From ncbui@mailbox.syr.edu Thu Mar 31 22:47:29 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:47:12 -0500
From: CamLy N Bui <ncbui@mailbox.syr.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
Hi Nguyet,
I guess this is the website you would need: http://www.ffrd.org/agentorange.htm
It has the most well-rounded information on the case so far. You can find a number of links that lead to experts whom you can interview via emails. They are mostly quite helpful.
Good luck with your thesis.
Cheers,
CamLy
From vern.weitzel@undp.org Thu Mar 31 22:49:49 2005
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:48:52 +0700
From: Vern Weitzel <vern.weitzel@undp.org>
To: "Jeffrey, English" <Jeffrey.English@RMIT.EDU.VN>
Cc: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
Hi Jeffrey,
I'd be happy to put you on the list - there have been postings on this subject for the last several months, of course, and we do not have an online archive. But I could send on such items as the recent decision and so on.
Andrew Wells-Dang of FFRD, also locally, has prepared a good summary of this. There is also the recent cancellation of a scientific prject that has raised more eyebrows.
The eList is about environmental toxins so also covers unexploded ordnance, hence assists the Landmine NGO WG.
I should also note that for Nguyet and if you come up to the Big Smoke on (I believe) the afternoon of 7 April, there should be a meeting of the AO Working Group in a place to be determined.
Vern
From minhnguyet80@yahoo.com Thu Mar 31 23:27:17 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:26:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Nguyen Nguyet <minhnguyet80@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: vern.weitzel@undp.org, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
Yes, I would be glad to be added on the list. I have quite lots of materials about AO and had contacted Andrew as well. Is there anyone who have articles about this published in Australia and America? I would like to go further on journalistic and public opinions. As far as I know, although the lawsuit receives quite wide public attention in Vietnam, it is not the same in the US and Australia?
Regards
From sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu Fri Apr 1 07:53:42 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:53:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
I have collected news articles on this subject which I have also forwarded to the Vietnam news mail list I manage.
- Steve Denney
vnnews-l list owner
From frdev@mindspring.com Fri Apr 1 13:42:26 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:44:54 -0500
From: Susan Hammond <frdev@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: shammond@ffrd.org, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: vern.weitzel@undp.org, 'Vietnam Studies Group' <vsg@u.washington.edu>, "'Jeffrey, English'" <Jeffrey.English@RMIT.EDU.VN>
Cc: "'Diane Fox (dnfox)'" <dnfox@hamilton.edu>
Subject: RE: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
Vern and VSG list,
I would be happy to put up the postings related to AO on our site. I have been meaning to ask you this anyway and have them all ready to post but did not want to do so without authorization. Some of the discussions have been interesting but would want to make sure the authors want them out further in cyberspace. We can discuss this off this list.
I am posting the trial documents as soon as I get them. Most of the most important documents are up now except the transcript for the hearing last month which I hope to post soon. http://www.ffrd.org/Lawsuit/Court.htm
FYI we at FRD along with Diane Fox are slowly in the process of upgrading our site mentioned in the previous email http://www.ffrd.org/agentorange.htm. The aim is for it to be a virtual exhibit on Agent Orange covering many angles of this story, history, science, politics, and the personalities who have been a part of this over the years. It will also include information about what people are doing now to address the long term health and environmental impacts of AO and links to scientists, films, speaker lists, books and other sources of information for anyone who wants to add the AO story to the teaching. A curriculum is also in the works. More info of what we are trying to do is at http://www.ffrd.org/Agent%20Orange%20Project.htm. As usual lack of funds and competing priorities has slowed this progress down. But if you have information that we should include on our site please send it to shammond@ffrd.org or Diane Fox at dnfox@hamilton.edu.
Also there have been many Vietnamese students on campuses in the US who have contacted us, both Vietnamese-American and Vietnamese foreign students who are interested in this issue and doing organizing some educational campaigns on their campuses. There has been interest in starting up a group for Agent Orange similar to the Students for Bhopal http://www.studentsforbhopal.org/ to bring more attention to Agent Orange and raise funds for victim assistance. So if you have any students who are interested in this have them contact me. The Bhopal students group are on many different campuses and the coordinator is interested in the Agent Orange issue as another way to get Dow to be accountable for their past misdeeds.
One last note, when I say Agent Orange, I want to clarify that for our site we will include information on all of the herbicides/defoliants. As we all know there were other colors in that chemical rainbow. It is just easier to say Agent Orange when you talk about this issue as most everyone knows what that was, unless of course they only know Agent Orange as the name of a California Punk Rock band.
Susan Hammond
Deputy Director
Fund for Reconciliation and Development
355 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
Tel: 212-760-9903
Fax: 212-760-9906
Email: shammond@ffrd.org
Website: http:/www.ffrd.org
From vern.weitzel@undp.org Fri Apr 1 15:33:51 2005
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:33:32 +0700
From: Vern Weitzel <vern.weitzel@undp.org>
To: Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
And although I always get the credit for it, I pass all relevant material from Steve to the envtox-vlc discussion group. Thanks a lot Steve for all your work with news items in this and other areas!
Vern
From minhnguyet80@yahoo.com Fri Apr 1 19:46:48 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:46:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Nguyen Nguyet <minhnguyet80@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vsg] AOVN lawsuit
Hi, so how could I get those news articles?