{"id":52789,"date":"2024-09-04T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/fight-brews-over-san-joses-vietnamese-garden\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:12:49","slug":"fight-brews-over-san-joses-vietnamese-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/fight-brews-over-san-joses-vietnamese-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight brews over San Jose\u2019s Vietnamese garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some Little Saigon activists are in uproar after a San Jose councilmember\u2019s office changed the locks and the rules for reserving events at the Vietnamese Heritage Garden. Councilmember Bien Doan announced those new rules last month after becoming the center of political divide\u00a0over anticommunism\u00a0earlier this summer among older Vietnamese Americans. The divide has partly played out during the garden\u2019s monthly flag raising ceremonies, which have become an emotional symbol for Vietnam War refugees and a publicity tool for local politicians. Now Doan wants to limit one private group\u2019s hold over the event. That group, the United Vietnamese American Community of…\u00a0<\/p>\n