On Tuesday, August 12 NCCWP will be showing the film The People vs Agent Orange in Astoria. We are grateful to have the use of the wonderful space at KALA, 1017 Marine Drive, Astoria for the screening. Doors open at 6pm with the film starting at 7pm. Food and drink will be available for purchase. Tickets are $5 each and will be sold at the door. We hope you can join us.
Another showing is also planned for Tillamook sometime this fall. Stay tuned!
About the film- 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. It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing birth deformities and deadly 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 (Trahn-Toe-Nyah) sues the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In the U.S., 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.
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