Articles by Huong Truong


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Huong Truong is a community activist, mum of two, and a practising visual artist living on unceded Wurundjeri land of the Kulin Nation. She is a former Greens member of the Victorian Parliament and currently works as an organiser for the Victorian Greens. @huongtru @huongtweets

Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Peace, Social Justice, Theory

A movement of relationships — The Greens in Fraser 2025

“The work we do with communities does not pre-exist our relationships”, says Huong Truong as she reflects on the Fraser campaign. Against those who dismiss grassroots organising as nothing but “retail politics”, Huong shows how electoral campaigns can move beyond “meaningful interactions” to create solidarity across communities — transforming both our communities and the Greens. “We are in community together”.... Read More

by , 2 weeks ago


Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2022: Volume Three, Social Justice, Theory

The work of grassroots organising 

The browner your skin, the dirtier the work. Chicken factories across Australia are all virtually the same. Lit by fluorescent white lights, smelling of cleaning detergent and death, and socially stratified. Afghan or African workers in the kill rooms, South Asians defeathering. Vietnamese workers in the boning room slicing cuts off carcasses. White folks in the packing room. [...]

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by Huong Truong , 3 years ago