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Kate Taverna

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We The People vs. Agent Orange w/ Carol Van Strum, Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna &amp; Bill Lyons by Carolyn Harding

We The People vs. Agent Orange w/ Carol Van Strum, Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna & Bill Lyons

As the latest film from filmmakers Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna lays bares the dioxin-based defoliant, insecticide, Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, even on children’s playgrounds. Agent Orange wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers. After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers accountable. In France, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides in the Pacific Northwest. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs, while a massive industrial cover-up goes on. The People vs. Agent Orange co-directors Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna join us for a conversation on the journey of two women, joined together in their mutual pain, resist intimidation and threats, bringing to light the ongoing, intergenerational catastrophe of chemical warfare and toxic herbicides in the hope of bringing the manufacturers and business related perpetrators to justice.For news and updates go to: javafilms.film/the-people-vs-agent-orange

As the latest film from filmmakers Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna lays bares the dioxin-based defoliant, insecticide, Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, even on children’s playgrounds. Agent Orange wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers. After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers accountable. In France, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides in the Pacific Northwest. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs, while a massive industrial cover-up goes on. The People vs. Agent Orange co-directors Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna join us for a conversation on the journey of two women, joined together in their mutual pain, resist intimidation and threats, bringing to light the ongoing, intergenerational catastrophe of chemical warfare and toxic herbicides in the hope of bringing the manufacturers and business related perpetrators to justice.<br><br>For news and updates go to: javafilms.film/the-people-vs-agent-orange

The People vs. Agent Orange / Film School Radio interview with Co-directors Alan Adelson & Kate Taverna

(3/4/21) The dioxins present in Agent Orange, the defoliant used in the Vietnam War, continue to leave a legacy of death, deformity and disability in their wake. In The People vs. Agent Orange, documentarian Kate Taverna speaks to whistleblowers, researchers and the people who have lived through contact with the poison in both Vietnam and the United States. Oregon resident Carol Van Strum is one of those people. The film documents her efforts to stop the ongoing spraying of the same toxins by the timber industry. Join us for a look why the battle to stop public exposure to this devastating chemical continues in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.

Kate Taverna and Carol Van Strum on their documentary The People vs. Agent Orange