Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Transcription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transcription</span></a> of my <a href="https://beige.party/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deaf</span></a> folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.</p><p>Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with <a href="https://beige.party/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a>, to call for a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PermanentCeasefire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PermanentCeasefire</span></a> in support of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> who are suffering <a href="https://beige.party/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>famine</span></a> & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/genocidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocidal</span></a> violence under <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> occupational forces.</p><p>My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USinvasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USinvasion</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnVietnam</span></a>. I was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarChild</span></a> conceived & born under active shelling & had <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IntergenerationalTrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IntergenerationalTrauma</span></a> pre & post birth.</p><p>We were <a href="https://beige.party/tags/displaced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>displaced</span></a> from our homes & survived in a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RefugeeCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RefugeeCamp</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>WarRefugees</span></a>, seeking <a href="https://beige.party/tags/asylum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asylum</span></a>.</p><p>My patriarch family lived in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cholon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cholon</span></a> the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> District in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saigon</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>SouthVietnam</span></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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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" target="_blank">#<span>CarpetBombed</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> after <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> carpet bombed the area. </p><p>The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USmilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USmilitary</span></a> used <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnamese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnamese</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/civilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilians</span></a> as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarMunitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarMunitions</span></a> including <a href="https://beige.party/tags/biochemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biochemical</span></a> warfare like <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AgentOrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgentOrange</span></a> & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NerveGasBombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NerveGasBombs</span></a> on our peoples.</p><p>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" target="_blank">#<span>biowarfare</span></a> chemical uses by the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.</p><p>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.</p><p>The USA bombed our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a>, our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/hospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hospitals</span></a>, our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/temples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>temples</span></a>, our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResidentialAreas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResidentialAreas</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>ResistanceForces</span></a> also used <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TunnelSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TunnelSystems</span></a> & some of them are now part of an <a href="https://beige.party/tags/educational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>educational</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LivingMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingMuseum</span></a>.</p><p>Vietnam is now <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SovereignNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SovereignNation</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>DiplomaticNegotiations</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>IllegalOccupation</span></a> by Israel.</p><p>You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>. True <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democratic</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>PressFreedom</span></a> to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalLaws</span></a> so openly & so disrespectfully.</p><p>Israel has become too <a href="https://beige.party/tags/arrogant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arrogant</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> continuing to put their <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarProfiteer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarProfiteer</span></a> interests over <a href="https://beige.party/tags/humanitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanitarian</span></a> & global <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PublicInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicInterests</span></a>.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Free Palestine!</p>
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Longreads<p>"Being strong enough to face the carnage, and to live in its midst, he knew when it was a good day to visit my mom or my aunt or my cousin, and he knew when it was a bad day. He could tell when seeing someone hungover, strung out, or in jail would be better than not seeing them at all." —Joshua Hunt for The Believer</p><p><a href="https://www.thebeliever.net/mount-fear-diary/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebeliever.net/mount-fear-dia</span><span class="invisible">ry/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EditorsPicks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EditorsPicks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grief</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IntergenerationalTrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IntergenerationalTrauma</span></a></p>
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