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a unique path. ah when oh, when we started the litigation, this became a real david and goliath back because we had the u. s. whole us attorney's office representing the federal government and the largest law firm in the state of oregon representing i a fe which is a front group for the chemical manufacturers and for timber sprayers.

the far as service had been unwilling to do any kind of community health survey after the spring to see if anybody wasn't fact being harm. it was simply saying our chemicals aren't harming anybody, but it wasn't looking to see if they were harmed. and it was very stunning. you know, that they would spray an area and within a month that miscarriage rate, what they call spontaneous abortion rate would skyrocket. according to the hospital data. ah, between my husband and i and our nurse practitioner, we delivered between a 10150 children a year seeing a larger number of birth defects than we would've expected. we saw

a number of congenital hearts and i think it was 978. i delivered an anan, sevalla child. that's a child that doesn't have basically the normal brain. in my lifetime of delivering babies, i would not expect ever to see one. and about a year later, we delivered a 2nd and then select child. those odds were just astronomical that a small practice like ours would have to allen's valley children. it made me realize that there was something going on. and the something that i was aware of was broadcast spraying of herbicides. at that point it was mainly to for d over our water supplies because we drink surface water at the coast.

non it kids were involved in the whole herb dessy battle. they were helping write the newsletters and draw the chairs and help with signs. mm hm. there is the poster late. daphne made, she did that when she was about 11, they were right in the thick of it. we had like 5 minutes to come up with a name from this group. citizens against toxic sprays, pans. it wasn't the most imagine it worked. i guess i wasn't entail. basically cats was for him and started

questioning at with filing a court action and then it suddenly got some attention. and there was a lot of pushback from the chemical companies and the timber companies. chemicals are being used as, as a means of achieving environmental goals. really, ah, and the, the attack is, are not scientific, it's a purely emotional, know the public good does not understand. and know we unfortunately haven't successfully communicated to the public as yet. take 245 d, for example. 245, t is about as toxic as aspirin. ah, it turn the safety factor in the use a 245 t is far greater than the safety factors use of aspirin. and as a public understand that one saturday morning when my husband was making

rounds at the hospital, 2 fellows in suits showed up at my front door and said they wanted to talk about the herbs sides. and i said that was fine. my 2 children were running around and very happily playing they didn't really say where they were from i said, come on in, have a cup of coffee because i had had a number of reporters and other people show up. and when then when they said, do you know at all times where your children are? i realized that i didn't i and i said it was time to in the interview because it was clearly a threat against me and my children die. and it worked. i'm done. a van that had dark tinted

windows on both sides suddenly showed up outside of carolyn steve's house, who were the leaders of the citizens against toxic spray movement. maybe the car was parked here, but they were walking up here with all their deer. obviously thinking i wasn't home, he didn't really explain why they were here. it was when i realized the other guy was sneaking up there and it and talking to the kids, then i got kind of angry. he was asking them all about what kinds of different critters we had in the for user because we did, we saved a bunch of them hoping to get them analyzed, you know, to see what was in them. but the rear door flew open as it drove away and they could see that there were large video cameras in there. the phone company itself, their employees told us that our phones were being tapped. it was an obvious

attempt to try to intimidate the folks who were bringing this litigation to try to reduce herbicide ariel sprang. well, we won a temporary injunction. what the judge and the cats case, thanks to all those scientists and studies that we were able to compile ruled, was that hey, you've got to include in your environmental impact statement, the effects of these chemicals in vietnam. and that was a blow to the fire service because by then there were some really documented impact in vietnam. we strayed 20000000 gallons of that stuff over there. your watershed, you're contaminated, the rice fields are contaminated, their wells are contaminated depending on who you wanna leave. for 500000

adults, contaminated wizard, and half a 1000000 children. ah ah ah, with ah, ladies at o for yet now has shown the victim doki get a medium of a demo or you can do for confir swanky fools. heck, a b with

there were negative feelings toward what we were doing. the propaganda put out by the chemical companies in the timber companies that number one, there's nothing wrong with the sprays. and number 2, these people are just the lunatic fringe. they convince the loggers or some of them any way that they were going to all be out of work as if they couldn't use the earth. besides who else was on fire? carol came up the driveway house was totally in flame. patrick said he stopped her. that she grabbed a knife off his belt and started running up the hill. and he just grabbed her and held her anna, he felt sure that carol was going to try to take her own life that night.

sh sanstrom's children were, were gone. and we all crumbled, we all just couldn't believe it. the firefighters said it was ours. noon, i don't, and it's hard to talk about. and i just can't really they had done the absolute worst thing anybody could do to me and they couldn't do any

more. and we go, animals were still here, i think that's what kept me going in. you know, it was what was left of my kids was what they love to, you know? oh boy, here you go. okay. the big 130 years old. he's very intuitive. like if you're really upset about something he will come in just like lean against you and be comforting rudy duty he. he wants to help you will come on, feel better. i don't know. i rely on him. this was the garage. there was no floor here. and so we put a floor in, in, i just was living in this in this room. and i still am

in a way it was. and in honor of my kids, i had to keep going. they fought this fight too. it wasn't just me. and i, the only thing was to keep going for their sake, little the, i me newly released court documents indicate that the companies which manufactured agent already knew as far back as the 1960 s, that one of its ingredients known as 245 t contained the toxic contaminant dioxide.

ah, ah, my father said he could hold me in his hand like this. i was so small. i'm missing my right leg below the knee. my fingers and i'm missing my big toe and my other toes are were webbed. but yeah, my story is not very much unlike many, many children in vietnam and other american children as well. so we share the same type of birth. the facts. goodman's mom needs national. you know, i don't get any benefits from the government. they deny that the children are male, vietnam, veterans are affected. so i'm hoping with your law suit, the things will change that it'll be,

it'll stick this time. ah, no. i case it's frustrating. ah, these companies have been able to avoid accountability for what they've done. i think your case is incredibly important as sort of the last opportunity that we may have to hold these, these, these companies accountable for the wrong doing that they knew they were engaged in when they made this poisonous product. the national forest here is no longer sprayed, and the reason is

a series of lawsuits that began with the cats lawsuit. but i want all those other people, how well people right down the road that i have private timberland around them that's getting sprayed.

they're going to keep these chemicals on the market, no matter what the only hope is for the community rights movement to keep insisting that we have the right to protect all of our communities from being poisoned and maybe it's a pipe dream. but if these corporations have human rights according to the supreme court, while damn it, they should be subject to capital punishment just like an individual would be only delicately, emily just kept his eye yet good. it is old. yar said the poor seduce me is only dal. lump

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a bunch of stuff from dow chemical that they hoped i'd never get. i couldn't afford to store them anywhere. and that's when peter ransack of birds. a canadian journalist drummed out some funding to get them all scanned. that was how the poison paper said, well, we must have scanned close to $200000.00 pages. he could upload them as they were scanned, 10 hours a day, non. so ha, a lot of the documents involved the fraudulent testing of chemical products. so lawyers now and bringing these lawsuits are being able to find that information and use it. i hope they'll make trouble. i mean that's the whole goal is to make them available to anybody that needs them.

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let contact with me. ah ah ah ah hi again. great to see you here sir. headlines for the americas. we've got some torrential rain around florida through the carolinas, and flood alerts in play here. and as this batch of moisture works its way up the

atlantic already virginia has got a flood watch in play. sped a week ago, we saw the worst title flooding in about 20 years, and we could see a repeat here that something will continue to watch off toward the west. we've had waves of what weather for vancouver signatures above average for the canadian prairies looking pretty good and toward the southwest of the us. it is drive pacific northwest white into northern parts of california as well and all that wet weather around florida. we can also trace similar bands of rain through the bahamas eastern cuba right into believes where we will see a heavier burst of rain on saturday. south end of south america looks like this. we've godsa or continuous rain falling through the amazon base in a cloudy day in bogota. same goes for lima with the hiv 18 degrees, and disturbed weather for the eastern portion of paraguay that is starting to slip in to the southeast of brazil. unsettled conditions for porto lake gray with a hive 22 degrees and it's breezy through the river plate region. so montevideo

wind gusts of 55 kilometers per hour. hang on to your hats on saturday. see soon take care. ah. in affluent distress, some neighborhoods racked by social and economic despair. what a fake the bad looking heroes. every one of us in the water responsibility to change our personal life for their suburban drake point out to 0. ah, ethiopian opposition? groups form an alliance to dismantle plan. melissa arby updates administration. the government calls it a publicity stunt. ah kimbell. this is al jazeera calling from doha. also coming up the u. s. s. a

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