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Sentenced to death, Trỗi got a reprieve after the FALN, a #Venezuelan #MarxistLeninist #guerrilla group, kidnapped US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael Smolen in revenge for Trỗi's sentence. The group threatened to kill Smolen if Trỗi was executed. Smolen was eventually released unharmed, and Trỗi was shot by firing squad shortly thereafter in Chí Hòa Prison.

In the West, Trỗi's arrest went largely unreported. Major news media did not report on Trỗi at all until the #FALN kidnapping episode. His anonymity persisted after his execution, despite the honors bestowed upon him in the #EasternBloc. Apart from advocacy by #revolutionaries like the Weather Underground & a brief mention in Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book (1971) as a "Vietnamese hero", Trỗi is still rarely acknowledged in Western accounts of the #VietnamWar.

Many cities in Vietnam have named major streets after him. In #HồChíMinh City, the road upon which McNamara traveled ,& where Trỗi planned to assassinate him is named Nguyen Van Troi Boulevard & a memorial park, Bia tưởng niệm Anh Hung Liet Si Nguyễn Văn Trỗi is located near the former Cong Ly Bridge. In #ĐàNẵng, the Nguyễn Văn Trỗi Bridge spans the Hàn River. Other countries have commemorated Trỗi, particularly #Cuba. A 14,000-seat public stadium in #Guantánamo is named Nguyen Van Troi Stadium & his statue overlooks Nguyen Van Troi Park in #Havana; the city also has a school & hospital named for him.

Anti-war activists Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden named their son, an actor now known as Troy Garity, in honor of Trỗi.

The 1975 film Chronicle of a #LatinAmerican subversive (Spanish: Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano) by director Mauricio Walerstein, narrates the kidnapping episode of Colonel Smolen by FALN guerrillas in response to Trỗi's death sentence.

(Ref: Doling, Tim (2019). Exploring Saigon-Cholon – Vanishing Heritage of Ho Cho Minh City. Thế Giới Publishers. ISBN 9786047761388.)

(Ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20100803012635/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4711422/The-heart-doesnt-grow-Fonda.html)

(Ref: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cronica-de-un-subversivo-latinoamericano-chronicle-of-a-latin-american-subversive/)

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The #documentary film that I'm featured in is now available for #free viewing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4q_dXo7Bw

It includes footage & shared #deforestation issues with the #Amazon. It's all connected.

I'm holding back tears near the end of it. I was arrested a few days after doing the documentary film interview at gate to River & Landback resistance camps.

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#ThrowbackThursday
Our first big #hardblock at #FairyCreekBlockade in 2020.

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My frontlines interview with Donna Clark from #XRVancouver has finally uploaded.

I talk about why I'm at the blockades. I talk about the ecocide on my family's matriarch homelands. I talk about the devastating & longterm effects of the US invasion on Vietnam. I talk about how we need to protect/study/find more ancient forest medicines. I talk about colonialism & brutalities. I talk about my amazing resilient villager relations. I talk about how ecocide destroyed my matriarch village ways of life.

I also bring up the sellouts.

We were carpet bombed by #USA #racist terrorists. Fact.

Please take the time to listen to what I have to say. Thank you for those who care enough to listen to me & why I keep fighting for a better world - for all of us.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-EscumG-g

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#Cree bro-friend comrade, Daun/Totem, doing Indigenous drum ceremony at Waterfall resistance camp.

From 2021 frontlines.

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#RainbowNation #Resistance.

With #SisterFriends at frontlines. Warrior POC women against ongoing colonial ecocide. I had not slept for 3 days & had not bathed in 8 days at that time. I was chaining myself to bridge & other infrastructure for over a week. I had experienced over 50 RCMP CIRG raids by this time & refused to stop fighting back. We, war survivors, do not back down from colonial forces easily.

2021, from the frontlines.

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Standoff between unarmed peaceful activists & militarized #RCMPCIRG - employed by #BCgovernment using #BCcitizens tax monies - in middle of the night. It was raining almost all day/night. Frontliners didn't budge ✊️

From 2021 frontlines.

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#VicPD asking us to move from BC Ministry of Environment & Climate offices. We refused to vacate. We shutdown building for 6 hours.
Building manager & landlord tried & failed to get us arrested ✊️

Urban frontlines 2022.

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Awaiting to be arrested (again) at HeliCamp - named because it was only camp that could take out activists via #helicopter.

This was a very remote, high up in mountain valley resistance camp that I first got death threats from one unhinged logger, from Lake Cowichan & told by one RCMP CIRG guy that I deserve to be raped.

2021 was a helluva year!

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#FlashbackFriday Cultural #solidarity with #Indigenous land defenders in BC ❤️ Part of Last Stand for Ancient Forests citizens driven PR.

I'll post a past video of an interview I did from frontlines this weekend so folks will understand my strong solidarity stance better 💗

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Who are the #DomesticTerrorists here?

The unarmed #environmental activists or the state funded, militarized #RCMP #CIRG unit?

Who is the one fighting for humanity & protection of our ecosystems?

Who is protecting the profits only interests of ecocidal corporations & the sellout politicians?

Tell me - who are the real domestic terrorists that you see in these #photos.

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Part of the #RCMP #CIRG #DomesticTerrorists who violated multiple laws with impunity. This was taken about an hour before another very violent raid.

From the frontlines, 2021.

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#Grassroots #courage over #colonial #fascists ✊️❤️🌲

Staying calm while #RCMP #CIRG chumps surround & threaten you is #HumanityInAction. Most female environmental activists have more bravery than all #RCMP across #Canada 🙌

2021, from the frontlines.

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Me & Silena, Ojibwe sister-friend/comrade against colonialism, on the bridge between River & Landback resistance camps. (2021)

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