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Tag: Vietnam
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A Village Called Versailles
S. Leo Chiang documents New Orleans’s Vietnamese community’s mobilization against a landfill for toxic Katrina debris adjacent to their neighborhood, in “A Village Called Versailles,” screening Saturday 5/15 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Posted inArts & Culture
Fall Books Special: The Night Fred Hampton Died
An excerpt of a new book on the Black Panther leader’s death and its aftermath by People’s Law Office cofounder Jeffrey Haas
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Put the dominos away
Those who can’t learn from history are doomed to repeat the domino theory.
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Out of hibernation
New records from Vietnam, MV & EE, and Piebald to pull you out of the industry’s holiday hibernation.
Posted inNews & Politics
Tools of Torture
Though he continues to deny it, Jon Burge tortured suspects while he was a Chicago police detective. Now his contemporaries from Vietnam reveal where he may have learned the tricks of his trade.
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Lie Witness: How We Got Into Vietnam; Savage Reporting
Lie Witness: How We Got Into Vietnam Next Monday is the 25th anniversary of the shameful day when mendacity swept America into its longest war. On August 7, 1964, the two houses of Congress passed Lyndon Johnson’s Tonkin Gulf Resolution by a combined vote of 504 to 2. The resolution was sort of an experiment. […]
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84 Charlie Mopic
The title refers to a cameraman (Byron Thames) who accompanies a six-man reconnaissance unit in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1969 (“Mopic” is an abbreviation for “motion picture”). A tour de force, this first feature by Patrick Duncan shows us only what the cameraman records–an intensely physical rendering of the unit’s experiences on a […]