Useful Agent Orange Websites, Videos, Books, and Studies

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During the course of Hatfield’s ongoing Agent Orange/Dioxin studies in Viet Nam, we have come across a variety of useful and informative references. Below, we provide a sample of resources that we have found useful.

Websites

  

Ford Foundation Agent Orange/Dioxin program information

• The Agent Orange Record – A project of the War Legacies Project about the ongoing health and environmental impacts of the use of Agent Orange, and other dioxin-contaminated herbicides used during the Vietnam war and in other areas of the world.
• The Vietnam Reporting Project – A journalism fellowship program designed to produce multimedia news coverage on the enduring environmental and health consequences of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam.
• Danish Vietnamese Association (DVA) information, links, and documents about Agent Orange
• Advocacy and Exchange Program on Agent Orange – The Aspen Institute
• Dioxin NZ Information on Dioxins – New Zealand Chemically Exposed Paritutu Residents Association
• Agent Orange information from the Vermont based War Legacies Project
• Operation Ranch Hand (Thomas Pilsch)
• USAF Ranch Hand Herb Tapes, Herbicide Amounts from August 1965
• Agent Orange Talking Paper #1 by Gary D. Moore
• Health of Veterans and Deployed Forces – Institute of Medicine (Viet Nam War)
• Chemicals used in military operations during the Viet Nam war
• Vietnam Veterans of America
• US Environmental Protection Agency – dioxin assessment
• The Virtual Vietnam Archive; Texas Tech University
• Toxicological profile for dioxins
• US Department of Veterans Affairs – Agent Orange: Diseases, Fact Sheets, Briefs, Newsletters, etc.
• Agent Orange related illnesses – Main
• Agent Orange related illnesses – Descriptions of Conditions
• Fund For Reconciliation and Development – Extensive information on Agent Orange

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Q&A: 'Toxic War' - The Story of Agent Orange

http://www.voanews.com/content/qa-the-story-of-agent-orange/1856154.html

U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was long and costly in many ways.  The conflict itself raged for more than two decades, but the consequences of military actions taken in Vietnam continue to this day.  One of the darkest legacies is the effect of a widely used defoliant meant to quickly clear dense forests and flush out enemy forces.  Known as Agent Orange, the chemical induced adverse health issues for both U.S. troops and Vietnamese on both sides of the war.
Peter Sills, an attorney who helped represent the Vietnam Veterans of America in a class action lawsuit regarding the use of Agent Orange, has written about it in a new book titled Toxic War. Speaking with VOA’s Jim Stevenson, Sills told of the many ways Agent Orange had a direct effect on people, and how it even evolved into a weapon.
LISTEN: http://www.voanews.com/audio/Audio/378913.html 
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Fears widen over Kadena toxins

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/national/fears-widen-over-kadena-toxins/#.Uw4vzYXWhJI

Just days after the commander of U.S. Kadena Air Base, near the city of Okinawa, promised parents their children’s schools were safe from dioxin contamination, a further 50 chemical barrels have been unearthed from adjacent land and a retired U.S. Air Force major has come forward with claims the school grounds are located near a former dump-and-burn site for waste that included military defoliants.
In addition, a growing number of parents affiliated with the base believe their children’s serious illnesses may have been caused by dioxin exposure.
Last Tuesday, at a hastily convened meeting, 18th Wing Commander Brig. Gen. James Hecker admitted to parents that he ought to have informed them of the contamination next to the playing fields of Bob Hope Primary School and Amelia Earhart Intermediate School as soon as he learned of the problem last summer.
However, he reassured his audience of about 100 U.S. service members and their dependents that there were no indications the base itself was polluted and stated his staff were doing all they could to protect children from any harm.
READ MORE: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/national/fears-widen-over-kadena-toxins/#.Uw4vzYXWhJI

Town Hall Meetings

Town Hall meetings

March 1, 2014          Mobile, Alabama

March 14, 2014        Hays, Kansas

March 15, 2014        Salina, Kansas

March 16, 2014        Topeka, Kansas

April 5, 2014             Helena, Montana

April 19, 2014           Bay City, Michigan

April 26, 2014           Northville, Michigan

May 6, 2014              Lebanon, Oregon

May 7, 2014              Roseburg, Oregon

May 8, 2014              Salem, Oregon

May 10, 2014            Seattle, Washington

May 11, 2014            Ohio State Convention

May 17, 2014            Lynn, Massachusetts

May 18, 2014            Bordentown, New Jersey

July 19, 2014            Lewisburg, West Virginia

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Amber Chaney- Communications Assistant achaney@vva.org

Or  Mokie Porter – Communications Director mporter@vva.org