"The People vs. Agent Orange" Deadly Chemical: Film Premier, PBS Independent Lens: Shocking

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- The People vs Agent Orange | Official Trailer | Independent Lens | PBS. Premieres Monday, June 28, 2021. Check local listings: https://to.pbs.org/30ClQgY
Official Website: http://pbs.org/agentorange | #AgentOrangePBS

*Nearly 60 years following the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War—the deadliest use of chemical warfare in history—the devastating aftereffects of the toxin remain lethal, demanding attention both in Vietnam and at home in America.

The People vs. Agent Orange closely follows two activists, French-Vietnamese activist Tran To Nga and American activist Carol Van Strum, as they take on the chemical industry, and demand accountability for the pernicious legacy caused by the use of this poisonous herbicide. Learn more about Independent Lens: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens
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- "The People vs. Agent Orange," by Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna, and Veronique Bernard. June 28, 2021. Two women, one American and one Vietnamese, fight to hold the chemical industry accountable for a devastating legacy.

- ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY -

Nearly 60 years following the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War—the deadliest use of chemical warfare in history—the devastating aftereffects of the toxin remain lethal, demanding attention both in Vietnam and at home in America. The People vs. Agent Orange closely follows two activists as they take on the chemical industry, and demand accountability for the pernicious legacy caused by the use of this poisonous herbicide.

French-Vietnamese activist Tran To Nga and American activist Carol Van Strum are joined in mutual pain and purpose in their quest for justice. Tran spent seven years building a legal case against the American chemical industry for poisoning her and her family in Vietnam—causing severe health issues and deformity—after 12 million gallons of the toxic herbicide were used there by the American military in the ’60s and ’70s. Stateside in Oregon, Carol Van Strum fights intimidation and threats by timber interests as she brings to light damning corporate documentation of the deadly impacts of the chemical 24D, even as it was widely used in her community, with no public consultation or warnings.

The People vs. Agent Orange unites these two activists nearly halfway around the world from each other, both equally passionate and righteous in their causes, in a staggering examination of corruption for which there has been no accountability...

- Read More about the film,
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-people-vs-agent-orange/
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- Review of the film, By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun, June 25, 2021,
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/zurawik/bs-ed-zontv-0627-agent-orange-pbs-doc-20210625-dmfm5fcnf5djlmfsreci3v5kvq-story.html

From the jungles of Vietnam in the 1960s to rural Oregon in the ‘70s, Agent Orange burned horrific paths of death and destruction. In terms of birth defects and deformities, think Hiroshima. In terms of rolling hills of green turned to charred hellscapes, think of the worst aftermath of a forest fire that you have ever seen — and then multiply it by the exponential power of toxins associated with this herbicide to live in lakes and underground water supplies poisoning generation after generation.

And yet even though many continue to suffer to this day from the fallout created by chemical companies and the American government recklessly loosing this herbicide from hell on the world, no one has been held accountable. No one...

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1. Deadly chemical? Sounds more like TFG.

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2. Herbicide to kill foliage, and in adults

and children exposure to the toxin can cause serious health problems from birth defects, to cancer, heart disease and other illnesses.
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ProPublica, 2016. For decades, Vietnam veterans have suspected that the defoliant harmed their children. But the VA hasn’t studied its own data for clues.
A new ProPublica analysis has found that the odds of having a child born with birth defects were more than a third higher for veterans exposed to Agent Orange than for those who weren’t.

ARMY VETERAN WILLIAM PENNER used to jokingly call the thick yellow crust that crept across his young son Matthew’s scalp “Agent Orange” after the toxic defoliant sprayed on him in Vietnam before the boy was born. The joke turned sour a few years ago, when Matthew, now 43, was diagnosed with a host of serious illnesses, including heart disease, fibromyalgia and arthritis...

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-children-of-agent-orange

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