Betrayal

Come join us tonight as we give a free showing of The Betrayal.

Fulton 511 @ 7PM FREE FOOD AND DRINKS

During the Vietnam War, the United States government waged its own secret war in the neighboring country of Laos. When the U.S. withdrew, thousands of Laotians who fought alongside American forces were left behind to face imprisonment or execution. One family, the Phrasavaths, made the courageous decision to escape to America. Hoping to find safety, they discovered a different kind of war.

Epic in scope yet devastatingly intimate, The Betrayal is a testament to the resilient bonds of the family and an astonishing tale of survival.

LOUNG UNG TMRW NIGHT!!!!

LOUNG UNG:

who is she: is a survivor of the killing fields of Cambodia, one of the bloodiest episodes of the 20th century - 2 million Cambodians- out of a population of just 7 million-died at the hands of the infamous Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime.

what does she do: author of her memoir, First They Killed My Father, a featured speaker on Cambodia, child soldiers, women & war, domestic violence and landmines.  She worked for the Vietnam Verans' of America Foundation's (VVAF).  

where has she been: she has been featured in NYtimes, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Today Show, ABC news nightline, and many more.

reviews:

Angeline Jolie (United Nations High commission for Refugees)

"I encourage everyone to read this deeply moving and very important book. Equal to the strength of the book is the woman who wrote it.  She is a voice for her people and they are lucky to have her."

Breaking news: C bomb exports permanently banned!

Hey guys! Check out the article below about the banning of landmine and cluster bomb exports in America. This is a cause that SEASA and BC faculty have been advocating for years. Read about this recent breakthrough!

US Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs
Friends Committee on National Legislation, coordinator

U S C B L e - a c t i o n
March 2 0 0 9

Breaking news: President Obama will sign a law today that will make permanent a ban on nearly all cluster bomb exports from the United States. Congress included the export ban in an omnibus budget bill that passed the Senate last night. This provision will move the U.S. one step closer to the position of the nearly 100 nations--including our closest NATO allies--that signed a treaty banning cluster munitions in December.

The legislation states that cluster munitions can only be exported if they leave behind less than one percent of their submunitions as duds, and if the receiving country agrees that cluster munitions "will not be used where civilians are known to be present." Only a very tiny fraction of the cluster munitions in the U.S. arsenal meet the one percent standard. This export ban was first enacted in a similar budget bill in December 2007, but that law mandated it for only one year.

U.S.-exported cluster bombs were most recently used by Israel in Southern Lebanon, where dud rates were reportedly as high as 40 percent; hundreds of civilians and deminers have been killed or maimed since the fighting ended in 2006.

Now Congress needs to take the next step and ban U.S. use of these deadly weapons. Nearly one in four senators have already cosponsored the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S. 416), introduced one month ago, which would stop the military from using virtually all of the cluster bombs in its vast arsenal by applying this same one percent standard to U.S. use. Do your senators support this bill? If not, urge them to co-sponsor today. If it's unacceptable to export high dud-rate cluster bombs, then it's unacceptable to use them. Growing Senate support for S. 416 will show President Obama that the U.S. public stands with the rest of the world in supporting a ban on cluster bombs.

As 17 year old Soraj Ghulam Habib from Herat, Afghanistan, who lost both legs to a U.S. cluster submunition in 2001 observes, "You'd ban them for sure, if you had them here." Click here to see what a cluster bomb would do to your neighborhood.

A live, U.S-made M77 cluster submunition in a citrus orchard in Southern Lebanon--one of an estimated 4 million dropped in 2006.

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Up Against Whiteness: Race, School and Immigrant Youth

Check out this book on Asian American immigrant youth, particularly focusing on Hmong students, and identity formation!