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🇻🇳 grassroots vietnamese leftists
✊ đả đảo chế độ tư bản-đế quốc! vai kề vai đại đoàn kết with people’s power & resistance

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Meet some of the organizations tabling at the 2nd Annual People’s Fair:

* Orange Hats
* Al-Ahrar
* Queers 4 Palestine Toronto
* CODEPINK Ontario
* Very Láo.d

Swipe to learn more about their work, and stay tuned as we announce more participating organizations, cultural performances, dance workshops, raffle prizes, and other activities!

Saturday, September 5, 2026
1:00–6:00 PM
Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism
24 Cecil Street, Toronto

The event is free and open to everyone. Get your free tickets through the Eventbrite link in our bio. by @very.laod

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Today, Trần Tố Nga, an 84-year-old French-Vietnamese environmental activist, will appear in court against the 14 multinational chemical companies (including Bayer-Monsanto, Dow Chemical) that produced Agent Orange.

This is one of her last fights after 12 years of battles against these companies to get reparations for millions of victims in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

Follow @collectifvietnamdioxine for updates on the case today in French.

DM me if you have any questions.

#agentorange by @very.laod

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🌏 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬 🌏
In the Spring season of 1975, the last of the invading and illegal u.s./western-allied forces evacuated our lands. April 30th is a finale of over a century of colonization, foreign occupation, imperial violence, and bombardment. Our people's sacrifice and struggle is what grounds us in our work and hearts on this day. As well, the unwavering international solidarity from sibling liberation forces and movements from around the world is what made this day possible.
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Our film program was curated with the intent to reflect and remember our people’s history, struggle, and afterlives. Through the lenses of international allies and contemporary Vietnamese directors, we were able to to experience different narratives and memories of such a significant day—from factory workers, to university students, civilians, veterans, family members, and more.

For us, today is a day of reflection—to remind ourselves that that harms within and across our Vietnamese communities still exist; of the importance of working towards nuance and critical understandings of past and present conditions, politics, and issues of our people; and that most of all, action is needed. To honour our peoples and history, and all those who may be silenced and no longer have the strength remember, it is up to us to go beyond censorship and ignorance to study our history, organize, study, and move towards better change.
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📽️ : 1975, “Abril de vietnam en el año del gato (April in Vietnam, in the Year of the Cat)”. Directed by Santiago Álvarez.
📽️: 1970, “Tercer mundo, tercera guerra mundial (Third World, Third World War)”. Directed by Julio García Espinosa. Poster by René Azcuy.
📽️ 1970, “The People’s War”. The Newsreel. Directed by John Douglas, Norman Fruchter, Robert Kramer.
📽️ 2023, “Even the Women Must Fight”. By Phan Thanh Hảo and Karen Turner.
📽️ 2025, “On Forgetting”. Directed by Mai Huyền Chi.

All films are available for FREE on either Docuseek, YouTube or Solidarity Cinema. by @very.laod

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🌏 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬 🌏
Trong lịch sử dài của dân tộc, phụ nữ Việt Nam có nhiều công lao to lớn đối với công cuộc dựng nước và giữ nước. Truyền thống Bà Trưng, Bà Triệu mãi mãi sống với nhân dân, phụ nữ Việt Nam trong lao động sản xuất, đấu tranh xã hội, bảo vệ Tổ quốc. Trải qua hai cuộc kháng chiến, “đánh thắng hai đế quốc to” là Pháp và Mỹ, cũng như trong công cuộc xây dựng ấm no, hạnh phúc cho nhân dân, phụ nữ Việt Nam đã có những đóng góp to lớn, xứng đáng với danh hiệu “ANH HÙNG – BẤT KHUẤT – TRUNG HẬU – ĐẢM ĐANG”.
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Today on International Women's Day we honour the women of Vietnam's anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and independence movements. In all aspects of society and struggle, in the factories, on the frontlines, in the fields, in the communes, in prisons—women's labour, intelligence, violence, and bravery have been a precious and sacred power for our people.
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✒️: Lịch sử phong trào cách mạng phụ nữ Quảng Ngãi, Tập I (1930-1954).
📸(1): 1960~75(?). Member of Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam (Vietnam People's Army) carrying a box of munitions on her shoulder.
📸(2): 1938, Eli Lotar. A labourer cuts pieces of rubber on a French rubber plantation workshop.
📸(3): 1921~1935(?), Léon Busy. Women washing rice in the paddies of Vĩnh Yên.
📸(4): 1949. Indigenous Nùng women carrying ammunition through the mountains during chiến dịch Đông Bắc (the Northeast campaign) of the first Indochina War.
📸(5): 1960. "Đội quân tóc dài" (the “Long Hair Army”) was a group of ~5000 elderly women, nursing mothers, and teenagers that would be on the frontlines for the General Uprising (phong trào Đồng Khởi) in Bến Tre.
📸(6): 1975, Hervé Gloaguen. A young guerrilla fighter of Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam (the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam) during the reclamation of Sài Gòn on April 30th. by @very.laod

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💭 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠 💭
The following is an excerpt from one of our facilitators for tomorrow in response to the prompt, "chất độc đế quốc, the poison of empire":

For centuries, the greed and depravity of these parasites continues to destroy everything that is natural and sacred. Our bodies and collective memories inherit the scars left behind from their doing.

Forced consumption was architected on native populations to create markets for drugs and alcohol; our lands were seized and pillaged, "optimized" for extraction and "innovation" because we, the people of and on our own lands, were told that we did not know what was best; our blood, sweat, and bones were used to fertilize the plantation crops of the capitalists; our starvation fed the gluttons; colonial sciences exploited the differences among our people; we were conscripted to fight our kin, forced into the war-games of white men sitting far away…

Though I have inherited ailments, trauma, rage and sorrow from my ancestors, I carry a preciousness with all of that: a sense of duty and promise. They tried to exterminate us, poison us, but we continue to live stubbornly, defiantly, and loudly.
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Join us for a film screening and community discussion tomorrow about the poisons of imperialism. Using the context of Agent Orange and chemical weapons used by the U.S. in Vietnam, we will be discussing how empires and capitalism inflicts violence not just on the lands and waters, but human bodies and livelihoods. This event is a fundraiser, all ticket proceeds will be going towards supporting cô Trần Tố Nga (More information on the ticketing website!)

🗓️Saturday, February 28th, 2026
⏰ 1:30PM - 4:30PM
📍 Downtown Toronto, near Spadina TTC station
🎟️ $10 admission

🔗 LINK IN BIO

Free tickets are available thanks to kind community support - please dm us if you want to claim one! by @very.laod

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In sight of organizing a fundraiser and film screening for @very.laod for Trần Tố Nga legal fees.

Me and an incredible friend ❤️ translated the fanzine by @collectifvietnamdioxine which will be available for free at the event.

This gathering is made possible by the vital work of Collectif Vietnam-Dioxine, which I had the privilege to learn from in France who stand at the intersection of justice for Agent Orange victims, decolonial ecology, and global solidarity from Guadeloupe’s fight against chlordecone to Palestine and Lebanon’s struggles against chemical and colonial warfare.

Event Highlights:

Teach-in: Learn about Agent Orange and its ongoing impacts
Film Screening: The People vs. Agent Orange (2020)
Community Discussion: Colonial legacies, imperialism, military capitalism, violent extraction, war, and climate justice
Title: Chất độc dế quốc
("The Toxin of Imperialism” "poison imperialism")

Details:
📅 Saturday, February 28, 2026
⏰ 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
📍 Downtown Toronto, near Spadina TTC station
🎟️ $10 admission (proceeds support Trần Tố Nga’s legal fees)

🔗 Link in @very.laod bio

We’ll also have solidarity messages and 3D-printed items to raise additional funds. For more about Trần Tố Nga and her case, check the event description on very.laod’s bio.
Who’s coming?

Need a free ticket message me!

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#peoplevsagentorange taken in Toronto, Ontario by @very.laod

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