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Review: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Review by Soudary Kittivong-Greenbaum This isn’t for you This is for the lady in the back The kid that’s late to class The dad that’s invisible, dreams cast aside...

December 2, 2020
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Auto Bulk, Education & Politics, Immigration, Iu Mien, Iu-Mien and Khmu, Justice, News, News & Updates, Refugee, Secret War in Laos, Social Justice and Politics, Southeast Asian, Timothy Singratsomboune

An Iu Mien Story Pt.1 – #FreeSaelee, The Secret War, and Resettlement

“I would never think that we would have that many supporters,” Naichann Saechao says, referring to the nearly 200,000 signatures collected online to free her nephew Kao from ICE...

November 23, 2020
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Art, Music & FIlm, Education & Politics, History, History

Beyond Black Ops: Laos in Video Games

November 15th marks the anniversary of Operation Commando Hunt. The goal of the operation was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into...

November 15, 2020
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Art, Music & FIlm, Hip Hop, Music

The Lao Wave: A New Music Scene in Laos

The music scene of Laos is hot with a capital ຮ right now. Every week, a Lao artist is releasing a fresh music video.  Many of these music operations...

November 9, 2020
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Animals and Environment, Laos

“All’s Fair?” Considering Laos, the environment, and war

Centuries ago, a writer penned the famous line “All’s fair in love and war,” which encouraged approaching romance and conflict with calculating Machiavellian sensibilities unhindered by inconvenient moral compunctions...

November 6, 2020
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Art, Music & FIlm, Community Events, Culture, Lao Diaspora, Museums

Legacies of War Refugee Nation Twin Cities: 10 Years Later

This October marked a quiet milestone for the Lao community in Minnesota, the 10th anniversary since the historic Legacies of War Refugee Nation Twin Cities exhibit in Minneapolis. The exhibition brought together...

October 31, 2020
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Content Spotlight: March 2012

Marking a place for Lao Women on International Women’s Day: 

I’m talking about the empowered Lao women who held her place to: de-mine UXOs, weave endless textiles, raise children post-war, and simply for all they’ve done to bring calm through the chaos of gender-based inequalities and socio-political struggles that plague our communities. Take note, Lao women ARE paving transformative journeys for themselves and we’re seeing a transition of acceptance and respect for their impact in our communities and changing the role of the ‘Lao woman’ forever.

These are Lao women in Laos and across diaspora communities from Minnesota to Australia who work towards the betterment of not only our unstable communities but changing the path for Lao women’s futures.

The impact of women have been documented and highly acknowledged by civil society organizations, UN agencies, and local NGOs who witness the social movements headed by women and how it changed their opportunities and societal norms forever (i.e. Burma’s Aung Sung Suu Kyi, Liberia’s Leymah Gbowee, etc.). When the shift in power go to women; the progressive steps towards peace, stability, and democracy increases. I’m not surprised. Often their progressive journey, defeats, and successes go unnoticed because quite frankly, they often work in silence and under the radar of the masses and the media’s glaring eyes.

–CPP

 

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