#Cholon was the 1st #ChineseSettlement established in #Vietnam in 2nd half of 17th century, after the fall of the #MingDynasty in #China, by the people who remained loyal to the fallen emperor and exiled to Vietnam.
Then, later during the 18th century, a 2nd wave of #Chinese immigration arrived to Cholon, as a consequence of the demographic pressure in China.
*My patriarch ancestors fled from China in 18th century & starting rebuilding life in Saigon. This thread is about where we lived.
(3)The #survivors had to rebuild the town and took this opportunity to improve the waterway system by building high embankments and wharves along the river. The settlement then took the name of #TaiNgon (embankment).
It grew and became a bustling center of #commerce. #Chinese merchants started to trade a larger variety of goods such as building materials, opium, alcohol, tobacco.
They call for more data on the "death Toll", money and more (killer) roads, but never for a radical infrastructure redesign. No data on "roadkill" of native animals either.
"Despite his experiences with organizations that work for the benefit of survivors of rape and sexual assault, many yet 'refuse to believe' that people in Israel were assaulted by Hamas terrorists."
Many of cases that prompted heightened scrutiny on the #CAF came to light in early 2021.
The slew of allegations in 2021 led the government to appoint former #SupremeCourt justice #LouiseArbour to lead an #ExternalReview of the military’s culture. Her May 2022 report made 48 recommendations to root out problem at all levels & government accepted all 48.
Another important event that happened in #PortAlberni last week in relation to the #NationalDayofTruthandReconciliation was the raising of the Residential School survivors flag along with the raising of the Canadian flag to full mast. The Canada flag had been at half mast at all Schools in the local district since 2021 when Kamloops announced the discovery of graves. It was kept at half mast locally to respect the same search that was ongoing at the Alberni Residential School site.
"For School District 70 (SD 70), the survivors flag now has a permanent home among their schools.
“This flag will be here for eternity,” said Tim Davie, SD 70 superintendent, “recognizing the work that’s also taking place in terms of moving forward and reconciliation across the district.””
"Jeff Cook, a former student at the Alberni Indian Residential School, and his granddaughter Saryta Dick, a Grade 8 student at ADSS, were asked to raise the survivors flag.”
The National Centre for #Truth and #Reconciliation and the #Aboriginal Peoples Television Network will host a 90-minute multilingual #commemoration event on #Parliament Hill Sept. 30, the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
The new office, acc/to #Biden, is one more attempt to answer that call, helping, for example, to “coordinate support for #survivors, families, & communities affected by #GunViolence,” an effort that he said would be similar to #FEMA, the govt’s on-the-ground emergency response team. The office will also seek to ID more executive actions the president can take.
Survivors (1975) peaks with this shot, I think. The horses, the snow, the countryside, the muted colours, the video-tape-blurriness. It's so beautiful.
The early video camera they were using was on its last legs in season 3 (the final season). Everything has a green tint and if you look at the left there are lines on the footage. But it allowed them to take advantage of the snow. They also took a risk and used radio mics.
Watching ye olde post apocalyptic series Survivors (1975) and it is delightfully brutal. Imagine 99.99% of people dying from a virus and the remainers have the moral values of the 1970s.
There's a lot of men in thick woollen jumpers and tight jeans killing pigs to assert dominance in their newly formed hippy communes.
> ... this peasant tradition..[is] often heretical and subversive. “Don’t run away from anything,” says the Russian peasant proverb, “but don’t do anything.”.... the peasantry everywhere can be defined as a class of survivors. For a century and a half now the tenacious ability of peasants to survive has confounded administrators and theorists...