Peace Building and Community Engagement
The heart of our community peace and human rights arts projects is community engagement.
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Vietnam: A Journey to Forgiveness: Legacy of Agent Orange
In Vietnamese, they say, “Making Peace is a treasure:” Dĩ hoà vi quý. I searched for this gift during a two-month journey from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in early 2020 and Laos before COVID shook the world. I came to Vietnam for a writing and art residency on the impact of the war and …
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VIETNAM LAOS CAMBODIA: MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC AID NEWS BULLETIN
Namaya is a Vietnam-era U.S. Navy veteran, a poet and an artist. Though far from combat, the war always haunted his memory and inspired him to be a lifelong peace activist. The following is his essay Vietnam: A Journey to Forgiveness: Legacy of Agent Orange. “In Vietnamese, they say, ‘Making Peace is a …
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Vietnam: A Journey to Forgiveness: Legacy of Agent Orange
In Vietnamese, they say, “Making Peace is a treasure:” Dĩ hoà vi quý. I searched for this gift during a two-month journey from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in early 2020 and Laos before COVID shook the world. I came to Vietnam for a writing and art residency on the impact of the war and forgiveness. …
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My Lai Prayers Jan 2020
Mothers were cooking rice porridge breakfast on the wood stoves, children laughing and singing, and fathers getting ready to work in the rice paddies. Then American soldiers descended on this village and in a few hours they executed 504 men, women, and children. The women and girls were raped. War came and went, one conqueror …
Vietnam: I am the generation of Witness and Fire
Shroud of War: Invocation I am the Vietnam generation. I am the generationof witness and fire. I was a hospital corpsman during the Vietnam Warand, though far from combat,the war hauntsme and my generation. This war of decades ago,and unending warsof the American war machineshrouds my waking hours. Vietnam: Fire. Redemption. Love. I am the …
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AGENT ORANGE DO NOT FORGET ME – Update Summer 2022
Vietnam: A Journey to Forgiveness: Legacy of Agent Orange In Vietnamese, they say, “Making Peace is a treasure:” Dĩ hoà vi quý. I searched for this gift during a two-month journey from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in early 2020 and Laos before COVID shook the world. I came to Vietnam for a writing and art …
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Impact of the B4 Peace Projects in the US and Internationally
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Agent Orange Press Release June 2021
www.Namaya Productions.com Namaya Poet and Artist Art- Word- Performance and community engagement https://www.facebook.com/donotforgetme.ao/ PRESS RELEASE: June 2021 b4peace@namayaproductions.com June 2021 AGENT ORANGE: DO NOT FORGET ME & Yes, I can A peacebuilding project to raise awareness of the impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam Agent Orange: Do Not Forget Me is a B4 Peace project …