I ain't f*cking happy about #whitewashing BS. I'm a #WarSurvivor & loathe #USgovt. I loathe all who never learned much from their own freaking violent, foreign interfering, #ProxyWars bringing, war profiteering, guns at ready to shoot innocent citizens & y'all try to tell the world you have a freaking #DEMOCRACY?
Age 30. At Coquitlam Town Centre.
On one of my part work/part leisure trips to Vancouver. I signed 2 work contracts on that trip😊
Back when my hair was jet black & hung down to my thighs. I wore it in half/full up-dos or in messy buns often back then.
My #Dad, aged 27, at #RefugeeCamp in #Indonesia - 1979. Photo was taken by humanitarian aid workers to help #VietnamWar#refugees get sponsored to go to Europe, Canada, USA & Australia, under asylum.
My Dad passed away June 9, 2023.
He went through hell & back, several times. He beat almost all odds. Until #covid infection in hospital in 2022. #LongCovid killed him last year.
Please keep donating because the crisis is beyond high, the needs are many & we need to show our global humanity over cruel geopolitics & BS power games by government asshats.
My mugshot at age 3, from 1978, at Indonesian refugees camp. Number at bottom was my refugee number. Mom found it today. It was taken to help get us sponsored to come to Canada as a war refugee family.
This will be my only post today. I'm struggling with a PTSD crash & getting extra care this afternoon.
Antony Loewenstein who wrote the must read book The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, which Verso has made available FOR FREE as an e-book. Get yours here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory
@timnitGebru The #poloroidID was used on my family members & many of our loved ones & many of our family's business connections. We had family in US allied Viet South army & 1 aunt in resistance army. We owned biggest incense factory in #Saigon before US invasion. Our home & factory attached to our home was bombed 💣5 times by #USmilitary.
This #AntiWar song is about consequences of USA war on #Vietnam.
#USmilitary used #AgentOrange, a chemical herbicide defoliant. Killing full ecosystems. Killing & disabling people, to this day.
We're still trying to get US govt to pay for human damages reparations, decades later.
Maybe my memory isn't as good as I hoped. Or perhaps I see the past with rose colored glasses. But I honestly don't remember government officials and talking heads speaking so openly and freely about killing people. It may have been the goal but I just don't recall Senators saying, "we must kill Pol Pot and all communists in Cambodia." Or, "Hồ Chí Minh and all those in the Worker's Party must be murdered before we stop dropping bombs and all civilians in the way are just collateral damage."
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I have called out my own family members for engaging in identity politics when it comes to thousands of lives being bombed & I don't hesitate to do same with others outside my family. I don't tolerate enabling genocide on any level.
If my health is ok enough on #RemembranceDay in #Victoria#BritishColumbia#Canada - I plan to join in as a living #civilian#WarSurvivor & asking #veterans who still glorify war/violence if they like looking at a face of a person who they were told to murder. I don't mince. I don't fucking do passive aggressive cowardly crap. I go directly to jugular & don't care if I upset colonial asshats who glorify war.