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a closer look out the project. our mission. to analyze the fight for market dominance. good. a step ahead with d. w. business beyond. who can i put something in a 2nd level. hey, what do you think it is? most it i don't know. but there's lots of austin. they try outside around here. yeah. are snacking will?
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ah, if there is 7th avenue, this is the cemetery. think she's buried here. i believe her death was caused by all the arsenic and blood we have here day. you'll see a bay. i still asked myself why i was never allowed to see her medical records. but again, why is that? he was alone. i wasn't even allowed to take a picture of her if she lost her hair due to be chemotherapy him was completely bald late of a ship every time i wanted to take a photo of her, she said no mama,
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no. she didn't want to have her picture taken that way. medical babylon, on her final day, she said come with me. when i said to her later, darling medical that rally, she asked me, leave me alone. i said yes. and then i'll be sleeping next to you. she put her head on my shoulder and drew her last breath. even when i looked. it was like when a baby says when alma for the 1st time you made a mamma, april mama, she breathed mamma. and at that moment i lost her. you will never forget that. ready ready ready ah ah
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ah, no to phantom all 14 years ago i began retracing the steps from my home town in sweden. he said to my native country, chile, and the desert town of our rica are can stardom adrica. forget to places that have been connected my entire life wanted someone connected by the mining company, alida will either ah mon, the had issue, many people hear a sig and thousands initially. they say it's because of the ways it at their book it and of all funded there some the waste that's left over after we've finished mining for gold back at home after we'd extracted the precious metals from the or it melman viewed and feel. we've made this film
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on to tell that story for that visa. awesome. hm. mm hm. yeah. i last. so you're allowed to live. i'm, you're still in today yet, but next to me is now a lush warping mantle. my 1st question did, how do you feel about what your country to return for has brought here. okay. your way you mean the toxic waste? cynthia. ha. i think my country's responsible once i would and should do something to help all of you as it. i'll go put that aside that
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ah, lou amy in the mid 19 eighties when chili was ruled by a military dictatorship, bullied and shipped nearly 20000 tons of toxic sludge to a rica in northern. she lay to lyrica. ah. m, the nun hugo halted alhashan. eat quicksilver humbly. this lodge contained high levels of arsenic, old mercury, and lead she landscape all logged prominent t manually toner for lead and paid that she lay in company promo, 1000000 euros to dispose of the toxic waste. but only a fraction of the sludge was processed in promos, furnaces, reston, lip, li,
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kunda. but plumped the rest was simply dumped into a pile on the outskirts of a rica and forgotten may order. skill a boost of excel from unless until whose summer and then it stopped. it forced us project in the years that followed by a densely populated neighbourhood emerged right next to it off was her again, live and live. that's awe at him. mom. back han, bullied and is a pillar of society. you might say that it helped sustain and provide a living to my community. but what does bullied and have to say about how swedish mining ways ended up on the other side of the world upon darcy than you'd this afternoon? oh, you're simply not interested in the fair portrayal of this. is she or as bleeding as a company? yes,
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it was almost do service bailey. that's not true. we described go lead in as an important company that has done a lot for the community here than our big dental school. and my mom and trying a connection between the people who work for bullied in today and the situation an oscar gemini, of the of you get the ideas that i don't think that's fair to the people who work for the company to day with her. and that other beer that may feel well working on this film, i eventually came into contact with one of bullied and former directors role for sped buried. was one of those responsible for shipping that toxic sludge to a rica ah ha ha. we led us to wagner. he returned to over eager because he wanted to see with his own eyes the consequences of his decision. ah,
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i hear the music over there where it says k 15. if you cool, glad i my children used to play there in about a few than the what did you hear about the young man who died of the tumor in his head? he was also poisoned with no one ever told him what was going on. the doctors in santiago didn't say anything because they said it was just that the people here uneasy. g, goofy of you 10 year old children have to take these 3 months of it and the doctor see that there insulin resistant me. i don't understand what's happening here. there are so many drugs in examination with you know what? i don't understand this. i
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ellis ross is rove. he doesn't speak spanish loaded by beth. yes. well, metre. c then yes, this, i mean, she had to have surgery away because of the toxic waste extra nipples grew on her year after mamma. that's why she had surgery did. if she got pregnant, all of these nipples would have produced milk. that's why they had to be removed. i found a c. m. at it. it isn't your fault that i can't remember. no, i wouldn't say that. but i feel terribly sad about this and that and very, very angry. if i had made a different decision, though,
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none of this material would ever have been sent here. no lantern. again. and when the leno met again, when he came here to our account, when you eat kill me, i came to my house and we talked for quite a while and they all explained the deal to us with delaware. who am i remember that he was very emotionally affected after visiting the area and talking to the young people there after that experience of another that he said the bulletin has to address the damage done to the people there. for me, it was a question of justice 0 and human rights. if any a gig, when it goes to what i want the medical piece. yeah. divided month rodrigo, my sampler and i from pamela mo, trigo and i have known each other for 14 years. one of him, he is from
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a rica and is an anthropologist. mendoza? libra? true. when i 1st met him, he had begun working with the people affected by the toxic waste from sweden. he dog. today he's probably the person who knows the most about the wastes scandal, lino rica, in chile, both that she lay in state and promo that the company that received the ways men were convicted in court some to him and a small group of victims received compensation for the damage they suffered in elite and their lot on the arbiter men bully them, but bullied and has never been taken to court. i thought a target had o laden has avoided commenting on the a rica case whenever possible. medical mathematica found that they probably assumed the case has been forgotten, evoked clumped with
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welcome, kimberly. hey, you one on, but i, i, i'd like to speak to evolution. yes . hey, you wanna? my name is johan, either from carrot law firm in stock or your home and her standing. upa legion's legal representative. yes, irene young. go on the i'm her. i'm calling because of the exports of toxic mining waist in the mid 1980. the chilling partition, i assume you're familiar with that, though at the all to some of nathan, i've been looking into this case for a while. i it together with some colleagues from sweden. she lee and the u. s. and we've prepared a lawsuit her against bulletin about her mother cassandra's answer come boldly don't
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ah come sir, can said malformations bone and joint pain, the waist that believe in ship to chile in the 1980s. this is dale, causing serious harm to day for 3800 people from a poor community in the desert of northern chile. i've lost a claim against the swedish company. mm. with this just to you, it feels good to see that there are people who are pursuing the matter in a way that we as filmmakers aren't able to do kenyatta if he had or tito from the court case as the result of 4 years of preparation,
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which began after the release of a documentary film as much as the report showed children played in the pile of toxic waste, which was full of arsenic lead, and mercury milan, the waste came from sweden and bullied, and none of this would have happened if the waste had stayed in sweden noticed that it ah, we were struck by how symbolic al representative was of cases of this type. there are many, many situations like this around the world. where typically multinational corporations based and developed countries do things overseas that they would never dream about doing in their own country. ah,
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lewis gordon lewis. gordon is the founder of an american non profit organization backed by private donors. that provides legal support to environmental cases around the world. he and a team, a swedish lawyers watched our film. yet he can hire a will be too late. i wish for each one of the room believe between the outdoor it is very crucial for become involved in another family. we have okay. miss young. this was the case i dreamt told when i was in law school to represent
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the week against the mighty. this the step tried to let him push this in here. it's flattened out of the had a plot, so this is your city o f. that a book the place where bullied and waste was kept until 1998. when she lane authorities instructed prom l to move the waste about a kilometer away. lance can mean bought for 14 years before that. the sludge was located next to a residential area. volta islam, methodical nellikka. if you on all the people he is say that by that time, toxic dust had spread across the entire area. say that if they had on how to speed
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it's your middle that thank you for how to food problem still existed. yes, all the live before we were talking about when the waste was moved in 1988 when it arrived here in 1985 before the waste is still here. it's unbelievable. when you watch your film, in fact, it's hard to grasp how close the hose is actually are not, and nobody there knew anything in follow up. nobody knew what it was or some loss of the wind blows from here, straight over there and indiana say, and nobody knew what it was like them back then. there wasn't even any wolves when this will help later. mommy, the kids we used to come here to play for mommy that was easy to get inside. one of what he ended up, the children would play her. what were some of the things they would do specifically come, why the m m on equal? there were piles where kids would play in the didn't some of them built castles with the montana
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a thought on bomb. some x of jocilan is one of the many children who grew up in this neighbourhood. in the 1st time i met her, she was 10 years old, the home of t. o. i lived with her family when i was in a rica when that are more on that you know, body with. and this class had to novick. so i watched her grow up on my visits to a rica, and soon she'll have a baby herself, scone child for bon mm. where it is just to live over there. this is la wickedly at the amount of fat because i'm pregnant. my baby is sharing my blood or you're suffering from drama from that or, and arsenic. and as any asinique,
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as anything the now you're going to have a new member of the family. i only wish that the baby is born healthy in. wow. if i figured that i had a film with fidel city, i knew that 8000 people in all were tested and 2010 out of 8000 samples. you can still 6600 were examined by lab and santiago means and arsenic was confirmed. some of this will, so in the $6600.00 samples for arsenic poisoning was confirmed and 12.9 percent of them which is approximately 8 on the person's cp. yes, by a 100 load here. we're already part of the lawsuit. if
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i just that minority of the local residence, 825 people would, i have a group of 15000. we are 18000 persona is a possible to join a new group of clemons. we can add people who have suffered harm, even though the case is already before the court and sweden. if you have arsenic levels of 30 or more, you can join the lawsuit level. lydia with this is a court case. we might win or we might lose just like in any lawsuit. ok, thank you. to think of how many thousands of tons of toxic waste was stored here. it was contaminated with 14 different heavy metals. we presented the case don't. belinda wouldn't have been dealing with a huge company. it has a great deal of power in europe over then it will celia them unless given the opportunity to super legion in a swedish court. that's already
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a success even without knowing what will come of it. it's a good me now. oh, last year. well ours, you're responsible for launching the biggest lawsuit we've ever had here. so era really recommend hell come home, garage huh. thank you. so this is our home for 8 weeks. we'll pub recorded more for each guy, and i can watch out, damn political message. we're coming for you. ah, it all been all don't start robin alden's tom. i'm a lawyer representing bulletin in this case of a widow and i want to be we know
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fairly well what they'll say. we've been exchanging arguments for several years now . it's been a long journey job. my name is classy nielsen, neal, head of communications, a bleeder bully, them some all the the hard so bullied and has done nothing wrong here of it. so these are so be our standpoint, is that we have a responsibility to clarify what happened, support the cleans with back the same effect so that everything is on the table. oh, it is an emotional case is an important case for many people including bulletin bomb. so we have to get to the bottom of this would almost be what it and get closer to the truth. livable would necessarily be the most spectacular truth for me . but it should be not to be the full truth that osama oliver older than it must have been thus far less and a fresh trice it's luck. the case is the 1st of its kind in sweden. both sides have
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submitted thousands of pages documenting the various investigations a show and the evidence take these the reasoning. mm ah sees it for the hearing will begin in case t. 10. 12 flashed 13 between the attica plaintiff and bullied and mineral able, long bored us. either both sides have brought in witnesses and scientists from all over the world, expire experts on gillian law, meteorologists, toxicologist, soil experts, chemists, semi metella, jessica politicians and former employees and directors were schafer. under me, 7, hold an id cassie, them until exemption expanded. plaintiffs from a rica will present experts who will support the claim, that toxic levels of arsenic were found in the urine authorship,
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and that it originates from bo laden smell to sludge. all fun. i am a professor at chapman university in california. and my expert opinion, the smelter sludge, is a clear and significant a source of arsenic in the area to discounted as a source of arsenic and takes that tremendous stretch of imagination. when i 1st heard from one of the lawyers that the bullet and waste had 17 percent arsenic. i didn't believe it. i've never heard anything like that. a pile of waste that close to a city to with that high of arsenic concentration. in one moment, how did you tell your children that they're all there is going to die in
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let me lessen. they thought of your thoughts. he was my reason for everything he wanted to and they took, came from me. pathetic will that e this is kudos as he ali those than darrow's good of kevin. and then we have plaintiffs here as well. i got a 2011 study sure that there are high levels of arsenic here. anyhow, i've been in the honeywell another to let you know that other, her little woman who lived in the house with the bars of them, she sold the house and died of cancer. donnie t. conan lived next door. she had an aggressive cancer in her head and died to them . you for you. he died yesterday and the wife of her son had a baby who died. but her son doesn't want to talk to anyone about it or hear
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anything about the contamination of a year. and another neighbor, marty subpoena had the stomach cancer. the woman who bought her house had a tumor on her face put in the man across from her, also had cancer. and then there's so many cases, this seems like every one here. and marty on monday, she had ovarian cancer. well, by the time she died, the cancer had spread everywhere. then there's mrs. yaya who also died of cancer. it started in her years and spread that then there's mrs. teresa's husband, who also died of cancer. he had lung cancer and skin cancer gum from libya and then mottos, father, wait, i thought i did no more. melanie korea bigger. i guess. what's the health situation like in other parts of attica, is he gets a home in the area near the disposal site is very striking. you know that we can in place not only compared to the rest of america in them, but to all chill,
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little put him blood cancer. when we started our research in 25 a, we didn't find higher rates. i can start in, but the will at. but to day, there are cases in almost every family that in the areas near the disposal site to little to legal rate of cancer is much, much higher than in the rest of kilo elephant to lynette and the grocer. yolanda roberson santo lasagna. b. a been dog who hung up for listening to him was very interesting. he paints a picture of what he sees as the situation in the region to us. but as so often, i don't believe his account holds up as evidence. it could be that in 1998, when people became aware that a big pile of potentially hazardous materials were stored there. and they began to see it as the cause for all sorts of things for you. it became an explanation for all sorts of things. just as
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a different orient logged ah offs on that. the still melodic, a rica and bullied and are a world apart. like 2 worlds that never meet the reality of what is happening on the other side of the world are you seems far, far away, long or less than i'm the lastest. hey you i'm me fall are you had already been all my father worked, the boy lead me and visited chilly when the sledge was being sold on a dale to have. i'm sure he died in 2008 other off, but often talked about how they, he and his bosses knew that the waste would not be handled, proclaimed chile. but the case haunted him for the rest of his life. turned down to
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sleep on either my father spent his entire working life a whole year. then in his last years he was dragged into the sand. little at the sledge, hammer to fun, solid, saddam somebody until you meet them all to toilet. so even in the mid 19 eighties, there were people who doubted that the slides would be handled safely and chilly on accordions, father, martin lindstrom, appears on rovers, fed buried photo from a rica. now you amanda, that epa. oh yes, that's my father. definitely. man bulletins advocate said at fido laden's, lawyers say that the company because of its visits to a rica who grey to precautions than they were required to. and that it was
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impossible to foresee that people would be exposed to the ways at mann middle school espanol from holland. yes, you get young to disarm all sorts of hindsight. and foresight are 2 different things. and nom hindsight, there's an elegant english phrase here, hindsight bias sham, which describes a psychological phenomenon where we as human beings, when we think about an event. in hindsight, some will tend to believe that it was much more predictable than it really was. more than a credit of vol, 2 of monet for left or cash intense people in this town won't even dare to think that believe may have done anything wrong. they are the only thing my father sent to that effect was. we understood that they wouldn't take care of the material pro play. he never said, i understood it your, but i don't know what he meant by. we may be only live else that way or maybe there was some kind of consensus among missed off that they'd never have dad speak about it openly. i'm like bowman say ad hoc
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official, martin lindsey martin lindstrom passed away several years ago. oh and anna caught in can't find anything in her father's note books that refers to the regrets her father expressed pins. there is nothing that could be used as evidence in the courtroom ah, conversation and you see. so 12 get out with you. i just want to add that yet, i want justice to be done here. sierra lisa. my. my son was killed. kin, my boss. we who killed your son. why?
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bo lead a and my dad, they sent the took secretarial here and he knew exactly what they were doing on are on the we have no further question there for all. look nolan, fill them out. lessons on your side. i know your honor like locked up out of the opposing party, has no questions. the hearing us over now. be heard so to tire in stock form one other or we feel her for almost all to mother if you see out did. and i dare say that this was bulletins plan talk aren't all. this is what happened was when big multinational corporations are accused of causing damage with their activity. desousa huge sums are spent on experts and consult and muscle from level to produce hundreds of pages worth of reports of the theme, all with the goal of obscuring your what is evident, i believe, and hope that this court has the ability for you to see through all that, all awesome. thank you from all garcia, yolanda,
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thank ah booley, the man that at manish name all it into lead that on those carla bullied and claims that the plaintiffs suffered no damages. and if they did, but it's not the result of their waste. bullied and doesn't even describe it as waste. who did salad material of negative value? did the rest of the out a negative to bad? ah. put him in that. ok. so they also said that if bleeding and as the a rica side claims them, it has contributed to a humana, terry, and catastrophe. then this was something the company could never have predicted say, ah,
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how are you? good, thanks. a bit nervous, nervous. that it? yes. oh and you course still have the chance emotional 11 years of work boils down to a single minute, 11 a m from alga. i know in the metal there, are you ready to talk her from? okay, here we go. okay. the verdict goes, looked at footmen. mm hm. okay. oh i, i need to talk to the people here. what's the verdict at
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bowie and why? what in that one i ah ha. the interest will smell miss h ha ha ha ha. that of course, we're very disappointed we hoped for a different outcome. morgan morgan, there are many, many people in the city of africa, or who stayed up all night there night. it's not fair. it's not fair. you know, behind our lives. and now they're not even taking responsibility for it,
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but i have no idea what we can do now. this proves nothing. well that it proves is that money talks and they have plenty of that i isa with below, but i think the directly in grammar, we're sorry we raised your hopes yet, but i also want to ask for your forgiveness another then you don't have to do that to rodrigo, that we're very grateful for all the work you have done that. yeah, i know you thought that she would win so bizarre. we all thought we would win. but how do i? i'm in shock. yeah, i can hardly knew. we didn't stand a challenge, let me know. life
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was a goals believer at all. or during this preceding bulletins rule on the material from bronze care when an organ have been thoroughly scrutinized and animal, the conclusion is unequivocal. i call on the residents of erica, we want to try to accept the results of the investigation home to sure. and this trial i'm afraid to say she left a ting, sweat hardballs. but the moment she, lance, the swedish court decided to apply, she lay in law. so the statute of limitations hadn't expired. when i bought it bought the verdict, states that there is no proven connection between bullied and toxic waste and the arsenic are found in people's urine. to sierra, despite the fact that the court says bullied and acted negligently and it states that this is not relevant. because
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a level of 30 micrograms of arsenic per late of urine does not represent hom. instead the court said a new level for damages at $100.00 micrograms, which is what bullied and had asked for bill epa. oh, ado caught them up on an a $2.00 to $3.00. seem to me a moment. men the men. ok. so the lawyers for rica of course do not agree with the verdict, but they also say that the court has made an important error on empty and hooks up in chile, the supreme court decided that 9000 micrograms of arsenic per liter of urine all represents hom, which the swedish court did not take into consideration all the lawyers are convinced that they can win on appeal on them can be none. he hold them. ah,
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i can i see us. i got a 30 minute verdict is read the case file. ah no longer it is. oh she yes. oh handle martin? i'm sorry. it didn't work. the court now decided to apply swedish law to the case also on a lease where a place if it's the statute of limitations. yes, some tor, a plot this i can believe it's they dismissed you to the statute limitations and
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didn't consider anything else up. no, they took the easy way out with all the pharmacy companies from sat up only than a comment on them. so bullied and got away with it because they did nothing all this time. they didn't act in a timely manner. and so they avoided taking responsibility might have, i believe, ins, toxic waste have their claims barred by the statute of limitations before they're even born. or this could be added on the model for this ah, yes for it's difficult to accept that justice has been done. ah, don't students get a quote from to let a court should have told the whole truth. and, but now that the court has ruled that the statute of limitations has passed levels, the truth never even got a full hearing. so we will never know what the justice system believes about. bo
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laden is responsibility for what happened in a rica for this amount. yes, i, we should claim i. right. so citizen, it's not our fault. they got money from the government to bring that toxic waste that contaminated our life. we have to join forces and fight for justice. ah ah ah ah
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