Screening of “THE PEOPLE vs AGENT ORANGE”
Tuesday, August 12, North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection (NCCWP) will screen the documentary film “The People vs Agent Orange” at KALA -1017 Marine Drive in Astoria.
Doors will open at 6:00pm with the film starting at 7:00pm.
Food and drink will be available for purchase.
Tickets are $5 and will be sold at the door.
The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War.
Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant (dioxin) controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, and playgrounds including in the Pacific Northwest. It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing birth deformities and cancers.
This investigative documentary interweaves personal with political struggles as it follows two heroic women who are leading a worldwide movement to hold manufacturers of these herbicides accountable.
In France, Tran To Nga sues the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In the Pacific Northwest, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides, many still containing dioxin.
Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs. The massive industrial cover-up continues.
The film won the 2021 Jury Award at the Eugene Environmental Film Festival.
fmi: https://healthywatershed.org/
for the trailer: https://www.warlegacies.org/people-vs-agent-orange