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Protesting at Cypress College

A huge crowd of dozens and dozens of people showed up at Cypress College yesterday to protest against what they consider communist propaganda: The photography exhibit by Brian Doan, an Associate Prof at Long Beach City College. This follows a … Continue reading

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Update on Brian Doan’s exhibit at Cypress College

Jiffy Lube-quick summary: A second protest against Cypress College has been called for tomorrow Wednesday. Slightly longer version: On Monday last week, Lac Tan Nuygen‘s group came to see the college president to hand in his organization’s protest letter. The … Continue reading

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Group may or may not protest Cypress College

The president of a non-profit corporation called the Vietnamese Community of Souther (sic) California called a meeting to take action against Brian Doan’s exhibition at Cypress College, and the attendees decided to form a committee to look at the problem … Continue reading

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Daily Bruin columnist joins F.O.B. II debate

The whole thing about F.O.B. II has pretty much boiled over with most people, but a low-level rumbling is still constantly going in emailing lists, forums, web sites, and a handful of print publications from out of town that are … Continue reading

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Artist’s refugee tribute runs width of Earth

A Viet installation artist’s tribute to refugees, now showing at Arizona State University, features the artist running at locations throughout the world with a cumulative length equal to the Earth’s diameter. Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, whose previous works of underwater video installations … Continue reading

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L.A. Times’ Dana Parsons, on anti-communism in the Viet community

Dana Parsons (pictured) put in his two cents in an L.A. Times column today entitled “Vietnamese Americans’ hatred of communism shouldn’t inhibit free speech.” Click here. Excerpts: Street protests are about as American as you can get, but the scent … Continue reading

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Some sparks flying at the ‘FOB II: Art Speaks’ exhibition

As previously scheduled, the organizers of VAALA‘s “FOB II: Art Speaks” exhibit held a panel discussion. Titled “Slant or Slander?: Community, art, and media coverage,” the panel instead got entangled in arguments over freedom of expression and a photograph that … Continue reading

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The new year’s hottest event: VAALA’s “Art Speaks”

The hottest event of the new year is actually an art show, coming up in a little more than a week. It will promise to be highly controversial, enmeshed in the biggest current events of both the Vietnamese-American community and … Continue reading

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