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Marjorie Cohn

A professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild, she served as a judge on the International Peoples’ Tribunal of Conscience in Support of the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange She is a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and co-author of "Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent."

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Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

by Marjorie Cohn

16 June 2009

More than 30 years afte the end of the Vietnam War, it is time to make good on Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam . Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. (...)

The Two Americas

by Marjorie Cohn

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 12 September 2005

Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died.