The result of the presentations by the San Jose Vietnamese Community delegation on December 12, 2006, led by Prof. Nguyen Xuan Vinh, retired professor and aerospace scientist, are seen in this document signed by Rosa Perez, Chancellor, and Prof. Nguyen Xuan Vinh. It is unprecedented in condemnation of the Communist government of Vietnam using a planned student exchange trip in January 2007 for propaganda purposes. The issue arose in the Vietnamese community following publication of information of the GEO exchange arranged by the late (resigned) president of San Jose City College, Chui Tsang, Mai Le Ho, Ethnic Studies instructor, and Vu Duc Vuong, a journalist recently employed as a community college sociology instructor and well-known to be favorable to the Hanoi government while living in America since the 1960s. Jean Libby, editor of Viet-Am Review, extends congratulations to the community college board and the Vietnamese community for this communication and education.   more »

At a public hearing on November 14, 2006, a large number of Vietnamese Americans in San Jose spoke and demonstrated against a proposed plan by Rosa Perez, Chancellor of the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, to recruit students from Vietnam for education in the United States and to send American community college students to Vietnam “to learn their culture.” Most of the political refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia in the United States are the result of the policies of the Communist regimes against their own people. Blaming the United States has been the greatest victory that Hanoi has achieved. Article by Jean Libby, editor, Viet-Am Review. Mrs. Libby is a retired teacher of US History and Ethnic Studies at community colleges in northern California, including San Jose City College.   more »