Co-MC: Bhairavi Desai (Director and Founder, 28,000 member New York Taxi Workers Alliance)
Co-MC: Claire Trần (member, Viet Left Power)
Registration: Jae Trần (National Co-ordinator, Viet Left Power), Jake Carson,
Press Spokesperson: Susan Schnall (President, Veterans For Peace, co-coordinator, Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign)
Guest Director: Franklin Siegel (retired, Professor of Law, City University of New York)
Overall Co-ordination: Ani Toncheva, Jae Trần and Ngô Thanh Nhàn
Zoom Managers: Erin Hughes (Director, 15th Street Friends Meeting House), Jae Trần
Panel Moderator: Juliet Ucelli (Liberation Road)
Solidarity Messages: Terrell Evans, Neffritte Larkins (December 12 Movement)
Security: Anlin Wang, Gerry O’Connolly (Democratic Socialist of America)
Legal Observer: Stefi Bastiaensz
Decoration: Paddy Colligan (Workers World Party), Neffritte Larkins…
Link to the day full print program
Opening Music: “El derecho de vivir en paz”, [the right to live in peace] original recording by Victor Jara, 1971.
Claire Trần, Emcee, member of Viet Left Power, Remarks
Bhairavi Desai, Emcee, Executive Director and Founding Member of 28,000 member strong New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Welcome!
Susan Schnall, President of the Board of Veterans For Peace, Co-coordinator of Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign, member of American Public Health Association, member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Professor of Health Policy at New York University, Medal of Friendship from the Vietnam President: Remarks
Ed Ott, former Executive Director of New York City Central Labor Council, active in the labor movement since 1969: Labor in Vietnam.
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Palestinian born educator and activist, Director and Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University and the Principal Investigator of the initiative “Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice”: Remarks
Jae Trần, is an organizer, artist, and abolitionist. They are a founding member of the Dorchester Organizing & Training Initiative, and have worked with the Asian American Resource Workshop, the National Progressive Viet Gathering, the Viet Solidarity and Action Network, and the Hai Bà Trưng School of Organizing. Now they serve as a disability justice consultant for People’s Hub and the national organizer at Viet Left Power: Remarks
Terrell Evans and Neffritte Larkins, December 12 Movement: Remarks
Playing the recording of McCoy Tyner jazz piece “After the Rain” with poetry reading of Ho Chi Minh’s Prison Diary poem “Trời hửng” [Good Days Coming] by Ngô Thanh Nhàn (Viet Left Power), and English translation by Teline Thuỷ Tiên Trần (Development Director of Mekong NYC).
Struggle & Solidarity Panel led by Juliet Ucelli, co-coordinator of the 2017 delegation of the progressive US women leaders sponsored by the Vietnam Women’s Union, and on the International Work Team of Liberation Road, a socialist organization. Remarks
1. Cora Weiss Video Recording. Cora Weiss was the only woman co-chair of the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam on Nov 15, 1969 that brought nearly a million people to Washington DC, a national leader of Women Strike for Peace. After 1975, she organized the 10,000 tons of wheat for Vietnam. In 2024, she was awarded the Medal of Friendship by the President of Vietnam, in recognition of her role in the US-Vietnam people to people friendship movement.
2. JJ Johnson, remarks. JJ Johnson was a member of the Fort Hood Three, the first soldiers to publicly refuse to serve in Vietnam. For their refusal in 1966, the three soldiers served 28 months in the Leavenworth army prison. He is a retired labor journalist and retired editor of the 1199SEIU publication “Our Life And Times.” 1199SEIU is one of the most progressive health care unions in the U.S., and it was the first major union to oppose U.S. aggression in Vietnam. Also read “From Othering to Solidarity” by JJ Johnson, on The Washington Spectator, Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Việt Nam , April 29, 2025, reposted on Portside, May 2, 2025.
3. Radhamés Morales, remarks. Radhamés Morales has been active in international peoples’ solidarity movements for over 40 years. He serves with the Fuerza de la Revolución and Ministry of Solidarity with the Peoples, Holyrood-Santa Cruz Church. He is also a Member of the Central Committee and the International Relations Committee of the Force of the Revolution, in la República Dominicana.
4. Nico Grace, remarks. Nico Grace was a student organizer during the Gaza solidarity encampment at The New School.
5. Teline Trần, remarks. Teline Trần is the Development Manager at Mekong NYC, a Southeast Asian grassroots organization in the Bronx.
Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of The Republic of Cuba to the United Nations: Speech
Jaime Hermida Castillo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the United Nations: Speech
Đặng Hoàng Giang, started his career in 2000 at the Department of International Law and Treaties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before being appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to the United Nations, Mr. Đặng Hoàng Giang was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Viet Nam National commission for UNESCO: Speech.
MCs closing remarks.
Program ends.