Don’t Buy Miss Saigon Coalition objects to 2017 Broadway Re-Staging of Miss Saigon and publishes and Organizing Toolkit FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE We of the Minnesota-based Don’t Buy Miss Saigon Coalition strongly object to the Broadway re-staging of Miss Saigon and the musical’s planned national tour. We are urging activists,…
Miss Saigon is back on Broadway and will invariably tour the U.S. soon. Download our DBMS toolkit HERE for a roadmap to organizing in your own community.
DON’T BUY MISS SAIGON: THE UNITY EVENT Tuesday October 8th, 2013, 6:00 pm, Rice Park Hello all, looking forward to being with you all tomorrow! The people, united, will NEVER be defeated. Here are some tips and requests: Please wear a white shirt/top, preferably one…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chay Douangphouxay, Coalition Media Contact, chayd2007@gmail.com Margie Andreason, Coalition Media Contact, 213-375-5572 or dontbuymisssaigon@gmail.com Don’t Buy Miss Saigon: The Unity Event Saint Paul, Minn. – October 1, 2013 – On the Ordway’s opening night of Miss Saigon, community members have created…
We refuse to buy Miss Saigon — literally and figuratively. We will not pay for tickets to a show that says Asian American women are subject to the whims of white men, or that they are nothing but objects for sexual gratification. We refuse to believe that human trafficking is something at which we should gape. We do not support the myth that U.S.-based adoption is the best and only option for Asian children. And we roundly challenge a Southeast Asian wartime narrative that ignores colonialism and racial privilege.
I am a Vietnamese woman. I am queer. I am somewhere between masculine and feminine. I was born in Saigon and now a US citizen living in Minnesota. Miss Saigon missed the boat my family and I took to get here.