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Clear Path International: War and Landmine Victim Assistance: Vietnam, Cambodia, Thai-Burma
March 17, 2008

YouTube: Myanmar's Landmine Survivors at the Mae Tao Clinic

The military regime's ongoing repression in Burma (Myanmar) kills and maims hundreds of civilians each year through the use of landmines. Planted throughout ethnic territories, landmines are used to quell insurgent rebel armies, but more often kill civilians, especially children

October 22, 2007

YouTube: Thank you, Martha!

mpic.jpg This video was shown on the 10th anniversary Celebration of Martha Hathaway's work with landmine and bomb survivors in Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the Thai-Burma border.

October 17, 2007

Senator Leahy Honors Clear Path | Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion Perform to a Sold Out Crowd

Leahys with Clear Path Co-Founders James & Martha Hathaway and their son Ryder Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion performing for Clear Path International

August 12, 2007

Howstuffworks.com: How Landmines Work

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So many people come to our site to learn how to clear landmines, that it seems many of you may be interested in how landmines work. Click the read more button for an excerpt from a great article by Kevin Bonsor for howstuffworks.com.

April 20, 2007

Back from Baghdad: A Conversation with Corey Flintoff

A few years ago, NPR's Corey Flintoff helped out Clear Path by doing a voice over for our informational video. You can see the video embedded in this post. In this post we link to a story wherein he is interviewed about the challenges of reporting from Iraq.

April 11, 2007

YouTube: Bombhunters Now Available on DVD

p_poipet_204.jpgGreat news! I just got an email from our good friend Skye Fitzgerald who produced the film BOMBHUNTERS about scavengers of live bombs in Cambodia. The film is now available in DVD.

April 08, 2007

YouTube: Cluster Bombs, A Weapon out of Control

A Human Rights Watch video showing how cluster munitions have endangered civilian populations from the Vietnam era through current conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon.

March 24, 2007

Domino Theory: Vietnam now to have its own version of American Idol

vnidol.gifHo Chi Minh City Television (HTV) and Vietnam Advertising Co. will launch a Vietnamese version of American Idol and the UK’s Pop Idol, under the name Vietnam Idol, in April.

March 23, 2007

YouTube: The Future of Landmines? I don't think so

Just found this video on YouTube tonight about a weapons system that the narrator claims could replace the landmine in future warfare. Doubtful...

March 14, 2007

YouTube: Lost Arms to Grenade in Vietnam, Now He Swims and Rides his Bicycle

UXO Swimming TeamMr. Lang was working with his parents in a potato field in 1976 when he saw a bright yellow device (M79 grenade). He picked it up and the device detonated in his hand. He lost two arms just below elbow.

March 03, 2007

YouTube: Improvised Explosive Devices of the Vietnam War

A fascinating video on how unexploded US ordnance was used in Vietnam by North Vietnamese forces. Considering how much ordnance is STILL on the ground to this day, there must have been no shortage of the stuff.

February 26, 2007

Clear Path YouTube Video Reaches 10000 Views

We produced this 7 minute video a few years ago with NPR's Corey Flintoff as narrator and the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart donating the music.

February 24, 2007

CNN and YouTube: Cambodia's poor scavenge for mines

120-2002_IMGThis story is not news to anyone who reads this blog, or folks who have seen Skye FItzgerald's film BOMBHUNTERS. CNN is reporting on unexploded ordnance scavengers in recognition of LANDMINE AWARENESS DAY in Cambodia.

February 10, 2007

For What It's Worth: Landmines Video from YouTube

In one of my routine searches on YouTube for landmine related videos I found this short piece that is nicely done...

September 24, 2006

Nobelity: Purchase this critically acclaimed film and help Clear Path

Filmed across the U.S., France, England, India & Kenya, Nobelity is a stunning look at the world's most pressing problems through the eyes of nine Nobel Laureates, including Wangari Maathai, Richard E. Smalley, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

September 03, 2006

'Where to Begin?': Stretching and Learning at the Mae Sot Refugee Clinic on the Border of Thailand and Myanmar

Lobke Dijkstra, Clear Path Volunteer at the Mae Sot Refugee CLinic on the Thailand Myanmar Border“Where to begin?” That was the main question I struggled with, when I first started to volunteer at The Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot. There was no such thing as physical therapy, let alone some form of rehabilitation treatment. In fact, no one really seemed to have ever heard of it.

August 31, 2006

YouTube: Princess Diana in Angola Raising Landmine Awareness

Whenever I tell people about Clear Path International's work with landmine and bomb accident survivors, invariably Princess Diana's name comes up and they ask me if I ever met her! No... sadly, the princess died about 6 months after my...

August 20, 2006

YouTube Video: If Some Bombs Are Smart Then 'Cluster Munitions Are Destructive Morons'

This YOUTUBE video from Canada's CBC NEWS shows the dangerous nature of cluster bombs in warfare. Many of the injuries/deaths from unexploded bombs we see in Vietnam are the result of cluster bombs left over from the Vietnam war....

May 20, 2006

A Song From Vietnam: Video on YouTube

A couple years ago a gourp of friends and I were travelling to a meeting in Vietnam after a long day of visiting with Clear Path beneficiaries. One of the women in the van started singing a beautiful song I...

April 23, 2006

An Old Story on Clear Path on Vermont TV

While uploading more videos to YouTube, I cam across this old piece on Clear Path from WCAX in Burlington, VT... this was back when our office was a a small room in our basement... we have since refurbished a garage...

April 22, 2006

Ho Van Lai's Story Posted to YouTube

I have posted another video to YOUTUBE today. This is the story of Ho Van Lai... the video is a few years old, but the story is just as powerful as the day we filmed it. Ho Van Lai is...

 


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