Our response to CDC’s “Everyone’s going to get COVID”
On the heels of CDC’s decision to cut down isolation time to 5 days, as we watch government after government openly embrace the “everyone’s going to get Covid”, and as the west hoards vaccines and blocks patents, Cầu Kiều would like to centre the people who have born the brunt of the eugenicist, ableist public health measures.
DID YOU KNOW?
Catholics make up approximately 30% of the Vietnamese population in the United States, while they only make up
7% of the population in Vietnam.
The disproportionately high percentage of Catholics in overseas Vietnamese communities is an extension of the colonial history that brought this religion to Vietnam.
Therefore, by understanding the history of Catholicism in Vietnam, we can understand the historical conditions from which overseas Vietnamese communities were formed.
How did Christianity come to Vietnam?
☆ 17TH CENTURY – Portuguese and French missionaries introduced Christianity to Vietnam.
Alexander de Rhodes, a French Jesuit, is credited with establishing a strong French Catholic presence in Cochinchina (Southern Vietnam) and with the creation of the modern Vietnamese writing system, Quốc Ngữ, which uses the Latin alphabet.
Why are so many Việt Kiều Catholic? (Western Imperialism) Read More »
TW: Mass Covid Death, Eugenics, Ableism, Racism, Western Imperialism and War Crimes, Agent Orange
The 19th of November was the Vietnamese National Mourning Day for the victims of the pandemic. Over 23,000 people across Vietnam have lost their lives, when a lot of them could have been saved.
Cầu Kiều recognizes the valiant efforts from the Vietnamese government in vaccine diplomacy, which has saved the lives of millions of our people and remember those whose have been lost and their loved ones.
Continuing from our previous post, Cầu Kiều would like to illuminate how the West has wielded the pandemic as a geopolitical weapon against Vietnam specifically, by:
Unpacking vietnam’s pandemic response: Blame western imperialism (always) Read More »
It’s important to recognize that colonialism is not always manifested as overt violence. It can also be enforced subtlety through the very design of our cities. In Vietnam, we can see how French colonialist urban planners transformed the built environments of cities like Hanoi and HCMC/Saigon to support their colonization and oppression of Vietnamese people.
Omicron Variant & Vaccine apartheid: western imperialism’s Fault (Again) Read More »
It’s important to recognize that colonialism is not always manifested as overt violence. It can also be enforced subtlety through the very design of our cities. In Vietnam, we can see how French colonialist urban planners transformed the built environments of cities like Hanoi and HCMC/Saigon to support their colonization and oppression of Vietnamese people.
French Urban Planning’s Impact on Viet Nam Read More »
Từ ngàn xưa, phụ nữ Việt đã luôn có được vị thế xã hội và tự do cá nhân cao hơn phụ nữ các nước Đông và Đông Nam Á khác.
Đấy là nhờ nguồn cội mẫu hệ của nước Việt, với ảnh hưởng to lớn từ Đạo Mẫu.
Nữ Quyền trong Xã hội Việt Nam tiền thực dân Read More »
Modern capitalism is a socio-economic system where production and distribution are controlled by those with capital. The enslavement of Black people during the transatlantic slave trade and the theft of the land of Indigenous people for the profit of capitalists gave rise to modern capitalism.
What is capitalism? Read More »
The truth is: Vietnamese feminism was never individualistic, it is in conjunction with self-liberation from their oppressors. Vietnamese women knew that to protect Vietnamese women anywhere means they have to fight against foreign invaders, to cry and mourn for the lives of feudal women means they have to critique the harsh Confucian systems that oppress them.
Feminism in Pre-Colonial Việt Nam Read More »
Right now Vietnam is experiencing a surge in COVID Delta outbreaks. As western countries hoard vaccines and resources, Vietnamese people are struggling and the government faces their own challenges of resource distribution. Vietnamese people desperately need your assistance and support. Please donate to Vietnam, every dollar counts. ➡️ Official Covid-19 Vaccine Fund by the Vietnamese
Support Vietnam’s COVID-19 Relief Effort Read More »
Cầu Kiều Collective would like to extend our sincerest support to those impacted the ongoing situation in Afghanistan. In recent weeks, we have seen an outpouring of support and analysis from the Vietnamese community all over the world, and understand that it has invoked strong emotions given our own history with war and displacement.
Cầu Kiều Collective Statement On Afghanistan Read More »
