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dominance. good, a step ahead with d w. business beyond hope we can go as i need a thump in the city for them. hey, what do you think it is? massive, i don't know who's i but there's lots of austin. they try oxide around here. yeah. are snacking? wow
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. after the 7th the anyway, this is the cemetery. thing . 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 a 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 the chemotherapy him was completely bald database. yep. 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 about model. on her final day, she said, come with me when i said to her later, darling medical that rally. she asked me if we, if we don't, 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 the most of it was like when a baby says when alma for the 1st time, you know in my mom, a medical mom, mom, she breathed mamma. and at that moment i lost her you will never forget that. ready 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 earth installed adrica full get to places that have been connected my entire life wanted someone connected by the mining company. hello lida. and we'll either mana had issues to many people here, a sig and thousands. they say it's because of the ways at the beginning of all fund that there are some to the waste that's left over after we finished mining for gold . back at home after we'd extracted the precious metals from the or the melman
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viewed and feel. we've made this film on to tell that story for that visa. awesome . hm. yeah, i laugh so you're allowed to live. i'm your slim to death yet that next me his last l. as a lush, happy mantel. and my 1st question did. how do you feel about what your country where jennifer has brought here gala? do you mean the toxic waste? cynthia. ha. i think my country's responsible ones. i would and should do something to help all of you. as her uncle put it aside with her.
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ah lou image 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 till erica ah m the nun hugo halted almosha neat tweaks hilbert. hopefully this lodge contained high levels of arsenic, old mercury, and lead she landscape all logged prominent tea 1000000 in a corner for lead and paid that she lay in company pro male, 1000000 euros to dispose of the toxic waste. but only a fraction of the sludge was processed in promos, furnaces, preston, cliff li, kunda. box lumped. the rest was simply dumped into a pile on the outskirts of
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a rica and forgotten me order, scalable studded, except from alice 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 hello hegan cleverly that ah had him mom back han bullied and is a pillar of society you might say that he 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 that he than you'd be at this afternoon? you're simply not interested in the fair portrayal of this. is she or as bleeding as a company? was almost do, sir, is bailey?
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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 bulletin to day and the situation and oscar gemini, of the ok. give me a 2nd. i don't think that's fair to the people who work for the company to day a younger than that ought to be at that mozilla working on this film. i eventually came into contact with one of bullied and former directors rove the sped buried. was one of those responsible for shipping the toxic sludge to our 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, i am the sick over there where it says casey stain. you
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who got my children used to play there in about a few of them. but where did you hear about the young man who died of the tumor in his head? he was also poisoned. 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 man, easy g o is lukea of 10 year old children have to take these for 3 months and the doctor say that they're insulin resistant. i don't understand what's happening here. there are so many drugs and examination, or you know what? i don't understand this, i suppose
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is rove. he doesn't speak spanish. laura? beth? yes. well metre, then yes, this, let me go. she had to have surgery, they, because of the toxic waste extra nipples grew on her year after mamma. that's why she had surgery. if she got pregnant, all of these nipples would have produced milk. that's why they had to be removed. i am edit it isn't your fault that came criminal. no, i wouldn't say that. but i feel terribly sad about this bill 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 motto again. and when the lena, when he came here to our account, when you wait till me came to my house and we talked for quite a while, 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 the after that experience and i think that he said the bulletin has to address the damage done to the people there. for me, it was a question of justice, you know, and human rights. if any, again, when a goes to host that they might have with the fia demanded months, rodrigo, my sampler and i from to more rodrigo and i have known each other for 14 years on of him. he's from a rica and is an anthropologist,
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madonna may be true when i 1st met him. he had begun working with the people affected by the toxic waste from sweden, the dog. today he's probably the person who knows the most about the waste scandal, lina rica in chile, both that she lame state and promo that the company that received the ways men were convicted in court. some took 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 oh, 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
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really well from kimberly, hey, you are now, but i, i, i'd like to speak to evolution. yes . hey, you wanna? my name is johan, either from carrot law firm and stocker. yahoo! and her standing upa legion's legal representative. yes. i mean, you can go on the, i'm her, i'm calling because of the exports of toxic mining waist in the mid 1980 to chilling, to sanity. 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 is 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 as her come bowl it ah
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council can send malformations, bone and joint pain. the waste that's believed in ship to jelly 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 hm. with the shuttle it feels good to see that there are people who are pursuing the matter in a way that way as a feel make is on able to do it. kenyatta if he had or tito from the court cases the result of 4 years of preparation which began after the release of
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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 and swayed out a study. ah, we were struck by how symbolic how representative it 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 lewis
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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. why are we lee too late? i wish for each one of you approve the lu between the or it is very crucial for become involved in another stablish to me. we have case middleton. 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 step tried to let him push this in here at side. it's flattened out. problem with the had a plot, so this is your city o f. that book the place where bo laden's waste was kept until 1998 when she lane authorities instructed promo to move the waist about a kilometer away. sedans coming back for 14 years before that, the sludge was located next to a residential area. volta ixl, math, had a door in the liquor. if you looked 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 study it, it's your middle of it a thank you for how to food problem still exists
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. yes. all the live before we were talking about when the waste was moved in 1988 when it arrived here in 1995. before the waste is still here. it's unbelievable. when you watch your film, in fact, it's hard to grasp how close the houses 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. again, diana say, and nobody knew what it was like on a back then there wasn't even any walls when this were built later, one of the kids we used to come here to play. mommy, dad was easy to get inside when up what he ended up with children would play her. what were some of the things they would do specifically on why the m a on equal? they were piles where kids would play in the dirt. all of them. yeah, some of them build 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 the normal one on that your body had you been 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 currently at the amount of that 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'd assume what fidel city i knew that 8000 people in all were tested and 2010 out of 8000 samples. dental, 6600 were examined by lab and santiago means and arsenic was confirmed. some of this was so in the $6600.00 samples for arsenic poisoning was confirmed and 12.9 percent of them which is approximately 8 on the 1st ctp. yes. by a 100 load hipaa. we're already part of the lawsuit. if i just said minority of the local residence, 825 people would, i have
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a group of 15000 or 18000 persona 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 area. but this is a court case. we might win or we might lose just like in any lawsuit. okay, thank you. just 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 was celia, them, and lamb 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. if the and good me now oh i lost your lars. 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 will be recorded for, for each guy, and i can watch out, dan, 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 over and i want
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to be we know 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 leslie nielsen. neal, head of communications, a belinda boley dom sub only 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 affect to the everything is on the table. oh, it's an emotional case is an important case for many people including the lead involved. 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. let a devilish trice it's luck. the case is the 1st of its kind in sweden. both sides
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have submitted thousands of pages documenting the various investigations a show and the evidence take these the reasoning. mm aah! sees it for the hearing will begin in keith t. 1012 flash 13 between the attica plaintiff and bullied and mineral able long boiled us either. both sides have brought in witnesses and scientists from all over the world, expire experts on chilly and law, meteorologists, toxicologist, soil experts, chemists, semi metella, jessica politicians and former employees and directors were schafer. under me, 7 holden 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, and that it originates from bo laden smell to sludge. all fun. i am
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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 the 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 do you tell your children that they're up all there is going to die in?
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let me last sunday thought of your thoughts. he was my reason for everything he wanted you to and they took, came from me pathetic would. i believe this could have cathy a little better than darrow's good of kevin finney. we have plaintiffs here as well . i got the 2011 study sure that there are high levels of arsenic here. anyhow, alba naming the honeywell another to let you know that ever heard of it. a 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 them. i used to be here for this 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 with me. and then there's so many cases. yeah. yes. it seems like every one here and marty on monday knew she had ovarian cancer, qualified 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 wast, i thought i did, no more. melanie holly, irv reger, 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 of chileya british imploded guns. if,
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when we started our research in $25.00, if we didn't find higher rates, i can start in but the will at. but today, it are cases in almost every family that in the areas near the disposal site, the level to level rate of cancer is much, much higher than in the rest of kilo elephant to lynette from the grocer. yolanda roberson santo lasagna bri abused all 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 a different orient logged ah
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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. you seems far, far away, long or less than i'm the lastest. hey you, i mean 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. i failed to avoid that. my father spent his entire working life a whole year. then in his last years he was dragged into the sand at the sledge, hammer. ok the funds to hold 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 chile, on accordions, father, martin lindstrom, appears on rovers, fed barracks photo from a rica. no. you amanda, that a papa? oh yes, that's my father. definitely. mm hm . men bulletins advocate say that thought, oh laden's lawyers say that the company because of its visits to a rica who greater precautions than they were required to. and that it was impossible to foresee that people would be exposed to the waste at mann middle
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school espanol from holland. yes, you get young to disarm all sorts of hindsight. and foresight are 2 different things. and nom hindsight, there is an elegant english phrase. he himes side 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 incredible by vol. the torque 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 mist off that they'd never have dead speak about it openly. i'm like when say ad hoc
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official, martin lindsey martin lindstrom passed away several years ago 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 to that. yet i want justice to be done 50 ira neetha. my. my son was killed. kin, my boss, we who, who killed your son, why bo, lead a and my dad, the senate,
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the toxic material here. and he knew exactly what they were doing on the we have no further questions. truly, knowledge fill them out. nations on your side, please. i know your honor 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 will to mother the pc out did. and i dare say that this was bulletins plan, talk article. this is what happened was when big multinational corporations are accused of causing damage with their activity. incident azusa huge sums are spent on experts and consulting muscle from recall to produce hundreds of pages worth of reports of missy mall, all with the goal of obscuring your what is evident, i believe, and hope that this court has the ability for do to see through all that, all awesome. thank you for more got c, e m,
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ah moody, the man that up manage name all it into liter mascara, 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 tearing 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 narrative. yes. oh and you course still have the chance emotional 11 years of work boils down to a single minute at lenny am from alga. ah no. and the metal are you ready to talk her from okay, here we go. okay. the verdict goes looked at footman. mm hm. okay. oh i i need to talk to the people here. what's the verdict
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at bowie and what, what in what ah ha the interest will smell miss regina ah, how that of course we're very disappointed we hoped for a different outcome. morgan more. 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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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. oh, with below, but i think the directly in grammar. we're sorry we raised your hopes what but i also want to ask for your forgiveness. another then you don't have to do that to rodrigo. hey, we're very grateful for all the work you have done that. yeah, i know you thought that you would win 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. so let me know.
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life was a goals believer at all. or during this preceding bulletins rule on the material from bronze care when an organ had been thoroughly scrutinized and i'm on the conclusion, is unequivocal. i call on the residents of erica, we want to try to accept the results of the investigation brochure. 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, sierra despite the fact that the court says bullied and acted negligently and it states that this is not relevant because a level of 30 micrograms of arsenic per late of urine does not represent hom.
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instead, the court said a new level for damages at $100.00 micrograms, which is what bullied and had asked for bill epa o. andrew caught them out on and the to the to is into mailman. men the men that ok, so the lawyers for a rica of course do not agree with the verdict. but they also say that the court has made an important error. is sheila han, empty and hooks up in chile, the supreme court decided that 19 micrograms of arsenic per liter of urine represents hom, which the swedish court did not take into consideration april. the lawyers are convinced that they can win on appeal on what them can be. now you hold oh,
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a i i can i see us. oh, i got a 30 minute verdict is rented the key info. ah no longer it is. oh she yes. well, hemphill martin, i'm sorry, it didn't work. the court now decided to apply swedish law to the case also on the lease. wait a place. it's the statute of limitations. yeah, don't horror plot this. i can't believe it. they just mr. you to the statute limitations and didn't consider anything else. no,
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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 may have to get out if pola or audience call them, you can bury toxic waste and your liability ends as soon as it's in the ground, then in 10 years, it's no longer your problem. the children affected by bulletins, toxic waste have their claims barred by the statute of limitations before they're even born or just could be on the mobile phones is fought. it's difficult to accept that justice has been done. 2 ah, dumb students get
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a quote from to let the 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 laden is responsibility for what happened? rica for decimal. yeah, i mean, we should name 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 with
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