#displaced
Well said!
Small reminder needed though--before the US, there was France. The US picked up where France left off.
♲ Ms. Que Banh - 2024-06-16 23:26:23 GMT
#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.
My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.
We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.
My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. 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 #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.
The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.
Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA 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 #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - 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 #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.
Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. 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 #IllegalOccupation by Israel.
You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. 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 #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.
Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.
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!
#quote
"whites decided amongst themselves that what their nations needed was less whites? Of course it wasn't the whites that initiated this #agenda. It was a faction of the minorities already present in the #white-nations and a #global #movement lead by a few white #multi-billionaires, backed up by their #NGO front companies, the #UN, #China, and the #fanatics on both the #left and the #right.
Whites are Christians, and many Christians have a guilt complex. When drilled down upon, it is due to their belief in original sin. Ask any Catholic about their deep-seated guilt. Guilt can be played and turned to other purposes. This is the door that the enemies of the west opened and once inside they unleashed their poisonous rhetoric on the white nations. They got in through the white nation's Christian tendency to feel guilty and the need to repent and make amends for any imagined transgression.
It was a perfectly played ploy. For most European Countries it is already too late. Most white nations of the past will not survive this onslaught. The #white #race will be #displaced and divested of both power and territory. They will become The New Jews of the New World Order.
I don't think there is anything that can be done about it either anymore."
#nwo
Displaced Palestinian mother in Gaza gives birth to quadruplets | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
This Palestinian mother has given birth to quadruplets in Gaza after fleeing with her family from the north. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubsc...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Palestinian #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #birth #displaced #family #fleeing #latestnews #mother #newsheadlines #pregnancy #quadruplets
Displaced Palestinian mother in Gaza gives birth to quadruplets | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Sudan paramilitary forces take over second-biggest city | AJ #shorts
Thousands of people in Sudan have been displaced by fighting again as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the country’s second-biggest city...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Displaced #Madani #RSP #RapidSupportForces #Sudan #WadMadani #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Sudan paramilitary forces take over second-biggest city | AJ #shorts
Video shows aftermath of Israeli attack on displaced families in Gaza
Video shows the moments after an Israeli air strike on a house sheltering displaced families in central Gaza, where 45 people were reported killed. Subscribe...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Israel #airstrike #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #displaced #killed #latestnews #newsheadlines
Video shows aftermath of Israeli attack on displaced families in Gaza
An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its #ancestral #homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war.
An Ecuadorian appeals court backed the Siekopai nation's claim over Pë'këya, a biodiverse territory in northeast Ecuador along the border with Peru, according to a court ruling provided to CNN by Amazon Frontline, a nonprofit organization working with indigenous people to defend their land rights.
The #Siekopai were #displaced during the #Peru- #Ecuador #war in the 1940s.
Last September, the #community, which has only about 800 members, filed a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian state, claiming it was violating their right to ancestral property, Amazon Frontline said.
In its ruling on Friday, the Provincial Court of Sucumbios gave Ecuador's Ministry of Environment 45 days to deliver a property title to the Siekopai people for more than 104,000 acres of land, court documents show.
Elias Piyahuaje, President of the Siekopai Nation of Ecuador, said:
"This is a historic moment for the Siekopai Nation. The land of Pë'këya has always been and will always be ours. For over 80 years, we have been fighting to get our land back."
Amazon Frontline said:
"The ruling will mark the first time that the Ecuadorian government delivers a land title to an indigenous community whose ancestral territory is found in a protected area. It sets an invaluable precedent for all indigenous peoples fighting to recover their lands across Latin America and the world."
Piyahuaje said:
"We are fighting for the preservation of our culture on this planet. Without this territory, we cannot exist as Siekopai people."
https://www.sott.net/article/486561-Indigenous-community-in-Ecuador-wins-legal-fight-to-reclaim-ancestral-land-after-more-than-80-years
Rain compounds desperation in war-torn Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Video shows the first rainfall on Gaza since October 7 as displaced Palestinians are faced with yet another challenge, a rainy winter. Subscribe to our chan...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Palestinians #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #displaced #flood #latestnews #newsheadlines #rain #rainfall #rainy #winter
Rain compounds desperation in war-torn Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
People forcibly displaced from north Gaza are fleeing on foot | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Palestinians have been fleeing north Gaza on foot to escape Israel’s air attacks and ground offensive as its forces push further into the area, after issuing...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Israels #Palestinians #air #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #area #attacks #displaced #escape #fleeing #foot #forces #forcibly #ground #issuing #latestnews #leave #newsheadlines #north #offensive #orders #south
People forcibly displaced from north Gaza are fleeing on foot | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Palestinians fear Israel will strike Gaza’s al-Quds Hospital | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Dust and smoke filled the corridors of the overcrowded al-Quds Hospital in Gaza when Israel bombed the surrounding area after ordering the facility be evacua...#14000 #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Dust #Gaza #Palestinians #WHO #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #al-Quds #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #area #bombed #displaced #evacuate #evacuated #evacuation #hospital #illegal #international #latestnews #law #newsheadlines #order #overcrowded #smoke #striking #surrounding
Palestinians fear Israel will strike Gaza’s al-Quds Hospital | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Aftermath of Gaza hospital attack | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Palestinians are mourning after the worst ever loss of life in a single incident in Gaza, when a hospital sheltering thousands of displaced residents was str...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Israeli #Palestinians #aftermath #airstrike #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #attack #death #displaced #hospital #incident #killing #latestnews #life #loss #mourning #newsheadlines #officials #residents #sheltering #single #struck #thousands #worst
Aftermath of Gaza hospital attack | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
People are sleeping in the open after the Morocco earthquake | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Displaced Moroccans spent a third night in a row sleeping on the streets after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that left many people homeless and afraid.Subscribe...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Displaced #Moroccans #afraid #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #earthquake #homeless #latestnews #magnitude68 #newsheadlines #night #open #outside #sleeping #spent #streets #third
People are sleeping in the open after the Morocco earthquake | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
People are sleeping in the open after the Morocco earthquake | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Displaced Moroccans spent a third night in a row sleeping on the streets after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that left many people homeless and afraid.Subscribe...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Displaced #Moroccans #afraid #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #earthquake #homeless #latestnews #magnitude68 #newsheadlines #night #open #outside #sleeping #spent #streets #third
People are sleeping in the open after the Morocco earthquake | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
The signing of the peace agreement on Wednesday follows a week of negotiations and two years of fighting. The armed conflict in #Ethiopia pits forces aligned with Ethiopia’s federal #government against those affiliated with Tigray’s regional government led by the #Tigray People’s Liberation Front ( #TPLF).
Amid the #conflict, #millions of civilians have been #displaced, while thousands of #people have been #killed due to ethnic violence. The region has been largely cut off from the outside #world, and so #humanitarian #aid has also been #denied to millions of people in Tigray.
#Peace #agreement must deliver justice to victims and survivors of conflict (Amnesty International)
