Comments on: Farming with Cluster Bombs http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:13:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rineke http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996&cpage=1#comment-97356 Rineke Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:08:19 +0000 http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996#comment-97356 Please find a link to the website of Jim Harris. He keeps a very interesting journal. http://www.everestinfo.org/laos2/index.php?page=Home Please find a link to the website of Jim Harris.
He keeps a very interesting journal.

http://www.everestinfo.org/laos2/index.php?page=Home

]]> By: Ramblingspoon.com || Karen Coates http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996&cpage=1#comment-93145 Ramblingspoon.com || Karen Coates Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:27:02 +0000 http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996#comment-93145 [...] a quick note to let you know I have a profile of Jim Harris, the Wisconsinite who clears bombs from Lao farm fields, in this month’s Milwaukee Magazine. Sorry to say the article is not online. « [...] [...] a quick note to let you know I have a profile of Jim Harris, the Wisconsinite who clears bombs from Lao farm fields, in this month’s Milwaukee Magazine. Sorry to say the article is not online. « [...]

]]> By: Karen http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996&cpage=1#comment-68770 Karen Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:28:15 +0000 http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996#comment-68770 I've just received this link to a BBC fundraising video for Power International, the founding donor of COPE in Vientiane. The footage features some of the people we met at COPE and PCL, a bomb clearance group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwletkkqd40 I’ve just received this link to a BBC fundraising video for Power International, the founding donor of COPE in Vientiane. The footage features some of the people we met at COPE and PCL, a bomb clearance group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwletkkqd40

]]> By: Karen http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996&cpage=1#comment-67982 Karen Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:54:38 +0000 http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996#comment-67982 Thanks for your comments. This is an issue that angers me enormously, which inspires me to continue writing on the subject. Since Jerry and I started documenting UXO issues in Laos, we have found so many Americans who knew nothing about the problem. Simply talking about the issue helps, I think. Those who are politically active can continue to fight for a total ban on these weapons. Here's another great resource: COPE, a rehabilitation center in Vientiane that makes prosthetic limbs. A large number of COPE's clients are UXO victims. Check out the COPE website for ways to help directly. www.copelaos.org. Thanks for your comments. This is an issue that angers me enormously, which inspires me to continue writing on the subject. Since Jerry and I started documenting UXO issues in Laos, we have found so many Americans who knew nothing about the problem. Simply talking about the issue helps, I think. Those who are politically active can continue to fight for a total ban on these weapons. Here’s another great resource: COPE, a rehabilitation center in Vientiane that makes prosthetic limbs. A large number of COPE’s clients are UXO victims. Check out the COPE website for ways to help directly. http://www.copelaos.org.

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Cluster bombs in Laos fields http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996&cpage=1#comment-67888 Global Voices Online » Cluster bombs in Laos fields Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:25:17 +0000 http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996#comment-67888 [...] spoon links to an article which tackles the risks of farming in Laos where many fields are still littered with [...] [...] spoon links to an article which tackles the risks of farming in Laos where many fields are still littered with [...]

]]> By: Souavarat http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996&cpage=1#comment-67861 Souavarat Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:53:44 +0000 http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996#comment-67861 Thanks Karen for that article. We Lao are so unknown to so many who weren't intimately involved with the Vietnam War...It's a sad reality but so many Lao have been maimed and killed by these UXO and so many are ingorant of the plight of those Lao who suffer because of the carelessness of the U.S. government. What can we do? Thanks Karen for that article. We Lao are so unknown to so many who weren’t intimately involved with the Vietnam War…It’s a sad reality but so many Lao have been maimed and killed by these UXO and so many are ingorant of the plight of those Lao who suffer because of the carelessness of the U.S. government. What can we do?

]]> By: Tisha http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996&cpage=1#comment-67593 Tisha Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:42:04 +0000 http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/?p=996#comment-67593 And our marvelous government not only neglects to sign the treaty, but actively tries to undermine it! 225 days until we get a more responsible government--if all goes well. Grrr. And our marvelous government not only neglects to sign the treaty, but actively tries to undermine it!

225 days until we get a more responsible government–if all goes well. Grrr.

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