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| Friends Committee on National Legislation |
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On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, finally ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. But the U.S. left millions of weapons behind that continue to kill.
Between 1964 and 1973, the United States dropped 90 million cluster bomblets on Vietnam's neighbor, Laos, in 580,000 bombing missions-equivalent to one planeload every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years.
Thirty-three years later, more than 10 million cluster submunitions still litter the land, waiting to explode in the hand of a curious child or at the foot of a subsistence farmer.
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007 (S. 594)
Find out where your rep stands on the issue - click here |
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| Cluster Munition Coalition |
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The Pentagon released a new cluster bomb policy, announcing that they would continue to use and export even the most unreliable cluster bombs over the next decade.
This decision came shortly after 111 countries, including major NATO allies, agreed to a global treaty banning cluster bombs.
The U.S. did not attend the treaty negotiation. |
| Learn more about the international campaign to ban cluster munitions - click here |
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from the documentary
BOMBIES |
| This 4.5 minute clip features Marv Davidov, the Honeywell Project and a nonviolent action in 1999 at Alliant Techsystems in Hopkins. Among the 65 arrested that day was Dave Dellinger, a prominent leader of the Anti-Vietnam War movement, along with his wife Elizabeth Peterson. Both had traveled from their home in Vermont. |
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| Click play above |
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| more on the movie BOMBIES - click here |
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• More about Alliant Techsystems and Cluster Munitions – click here
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