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dropped his bits by twitter, the well switch as person accused the social media. and that's where both withholding information with us as the last as you mosque, to compel him to make it good. to make good, i should say, in the 44000000000 dollar deal. that's all for now. next, the stock film to present in betsy business, which looks that's a chilean community fighting for compensation from the swedish fram, responsible for local toxic to least contamination. don't forget to get the latest news and information on our website at the w dot com. i am eddie micah junior stateroom from on used to the top of the out. imagine how many portion of lunch are now in the world climate conference doors. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much was can really get we
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still have time to go. i'm going all with no. i don't live in a 2nd for them. hey. what do you think it is? massive? i don't know, but there's lots of austin. they try outside around here. yeah. are snacking? wow . ah.
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if the 7th avenue, 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 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 the chemotherapy and was completely bald either by 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 brumbalow on her final day, she said, come with me wait. i said to her later, darling medical. very rarely she asked me 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 that i looked the was, it was like when a baby says when alma for the 1st time in mamma, a medical smile, she breathed mamma. and at that moment i lost her. you will never forget that. ready ready ringback ah
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ah no, some old. 14 years ago i began retracing the steps from my home town in sweden's fat to my native country chile. and the desert town of our rica or earth installed adrica full cut, say, 2 places that have been connected my entire life wanted someone connected by the mining company, alida, and we'll leave them on that issue. many people hear a sig and thousands initially. they say it's because of the wasted at the beginning of all fonda this and the waste that's left over after we finished mining for gold, back at home. after we've extracted the precious metals from the all the melma viewed
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and feel. we've made this film on to tell that story for that visa. awesome. hm. okay. yeah. i'll add a yellow to this. i'm just calling today. yes. that next to me is now a lush. happy mantle. my 1st question dear, how do you feel about what your country swenton has brought here? okay. what do you mean the toxic waste cynthia i i think my country's responsible once i would and should do something to help all of you. i said, i'll go put a to the side of the ah,
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to a meet 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. they in none here go halted, almosha neat, quicksilver. hopefully this lodge contained high levels of arsenic luxury and lead she landscape log traumatic t. m a you in a corner for lead and paid that she lay in company pro mel 1000000 euros to dispose of the toxic waste. but only a fraction of the sludge was processed in promos, furnaces, rest them, live leak under box. lumped. the rest was simply dumped into
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a pile on the outskirts of a rica and forgotten me order, scalable studded, except from our list until who's a modern day. and 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 man back hon. alida 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 does he than you would if that's an article you're simply not interested in a fair portrayal of this issue or of bleeding as a company was a must do, sir, is bailey,
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that's not true. we described bullied in as an important company that has done a lot for the community here than our big dental school. will plan on trying a connection between the people who work for bullied and to day and the situation and oscar germany of the of you get the idea. i don't think that's fair to the people who work for the company to day with her. and that ought to be it that my feel all 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 hear the music 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. where did you hear about the young man who died of the tumor in his head? he was also poisoned. he will give you 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 your 10 year old children have to take these for 3 months and the doctor say that they're insulin resistant. me. i don't understand what's happening here. there are so many drugs in examination with you. i don't understand this. oh,
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eliza ross is rove. he doesn't speak spanish. laura, bye? beth? yes. well metre in yet this let me i got 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 am edit, it isn't your fault. that i can't remember. 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 matter again. and when the lena, when he came here to our account, when you wait till me came to my house, when we talked for quite a while now, or she'll explain the deal to us, we have telemundo. and 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 what that they might have with the fia demanded men, rodrigo, my sampler, and i from to more rodrigo and i have known each other for 14 years. one of him, he's from a rica and is an anthropologist. madame somebody,
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be 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 waste scandal, lina rica in chile, both that she lay in 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 o laden has avoided commenting on the a rica case whenever possible that accommodate each other. they probably assume the case has been forgotten, evoked clumped with
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welcome. kimberly. hey, you wanna i like to speak to eva wooten. yes . hey, you wanna? my name is johan, either from carrot law firm and stocker. y'all, ender? stand that horrible legion's legal representative? yes. i mean you can go on there. i'm her. i'm calling because of the exports of toxic mining waste to the mid 19 eighties to chilling partition. i assume you're familiar with that. you know, so at your, to some of nathan, i've been looking into this case for a while. i get together with some colleagues from sweden, she lee and the u. s. and we've prepared a lawsuit her against bulletin gilbert from andrew curtis. anderson's outcome bulletin ah
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come sir, can said malformations bone and joint pain. the waste that's believed in ship to chile in the 1980s. this is dale, causing serious harm to day said 35. 0 no, i'm on 800 people from a poor community in the desert of northern chile. i've lost a claim against the swedish company. mm. hm, with just it feels good to see that there are people who are pursuing the matter in a way that we as a feel make is on able to do it. kenyatta. if you don't 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 them. and the waste came from sweden and bullied, and none of this would have happened if the waste had stayed in sweden to study. 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 develop countries do things overseas that they would never dream about doing in their own country. ah,
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louise 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 whom 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 weak against the mighty step tried to let him push this in here it's flattened out with the had a plot. so this is you city o f, that a book the place where bullied into waste was kept until 1998. when she lane authorities instructed prom l to move the waste about a kilometer away finance coming. but for 14 years before that, the sludge was located next to a residential area, volta, xlon, 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 tift played on how to speed it's your middle that a thank you for how the food problem still
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exists. yeah, i saw 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 hoses actually are now and nobody there knew anything in particular, but nobody knew what it was or some loss of the wind blows from here, straight over there. and, and dana 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. mommy, that was easy to get inside went up what he ended up, the children would play her. what were some of the things they would do specifically come, why the m a when he was there were piles where kids would play in the didn't. some of them build castles with the montana
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at thought on bought some extra. joselyn 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 your 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 of 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
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a me arsenic. as an 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 out, assume with 3 out of 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 will, so in the $6600.00 samples for arsenic poisoning was confirmed and 12.9 percent of them, which is approximately $800.00 versus ctc. yes. by a 100 load hipaa. we're already part of the lawsuit. if i just that minority of the local residence, 825 people would, i have
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a group of 15000 leader, 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. the whole idea with this is a court case. we might win or we might lose just like in any lawsuit. ok, thank you. just think of how many thousands of tons of toxic waste with doors 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 they 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. 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? very common health and home garage. huh. thank you. so this is our home for 8 weeks . we'll protect gordon porkers. each guy can watch out damn polluters from after. 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 won't
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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, needle, head of communications at belinda boley. them so boldly 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 fatness in the fact that everything is on the table. oh, it is an emotional. chase is an important case for many people including gleaton. so we have to get to the bottom of this would almost be what it and get closer to the truth. lovable would necessarily be the most spectacular truth from it. it should be that they did not the full truth, that osama oliver older than it must have been thus far less. at 1st i said slug 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 case t 1012 slash 13. between the adrica, plaintiff and bullied and mineral able long board us even both sides have brought in witnesses and scientists from all over the world explorer experts on chile and law, meteorologists, toxicologist, soil experts that chemists semi metella, jessica politicians and former employees and directors were schafer. under meaning 7 on an advocacy them hotel exempt and expanded plaintiffs from a rica will present experts who will support the claim. that toxic levels of arsenic were found in the urine alteration. and that it originates from bullied and
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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. it 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'd 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 their father is going to die in let me lessen. they thought you thought he was my reason for everything he
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wanted to and they took him from me. pathetic would actually this is could a kathy a little than darrow's could have him? and then we have plaintiffs here as well. i got the 2011 study showed that there are high levels of arsenic here. anyhow. albany, the honeywell, if you're gonna read this woman who lived in the house with the bars of them, she sold the house and died of cancer. danny te kona lived next door. she had an aggressive cancer in her head and died to the new for you. he died. i'm e s. 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. and another neighbor mighty subpoena had the stomach cancer. the woman who bought her house had a tumor on her face, put in the men across from her, also had cancer. and then there's so many cases it, yes, it seems like every one here and marty on madina, she had ovarian cancer. well defined 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 to libya and then mottos. father wast, i thought i did. no more melanie hurry, irv reger, i guess. what's the health situation like in other parts of attica, is he got a home in the area near the disposal site is very striking in about like unit base . not only compared to the rest of america in dummy, but to all of she, little petition, broedell cancer. when we started our research and 25 a,
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we didn't find higher rates. i can start in particular. but to day, there are cases in almost every family that in the areas near the disposal site, the literally a rate of cancer is much, much higher than in the rest of kilo differently enough in the gutter. yolanda roberson santo lasagna in re, 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 a different orient logged ah
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offs on that as the melody. a rica and bulletin 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 under. estes hey you, i'm me fall i you had to live in all my father worked the boy lead me and visited chile when the sledge was being sold on a deal 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 properly in chile, the case haunted him for the rest of his life,
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turned down to sleep. failed to avoid either my father spent his entire working life a colleague then in his last years he was dragged into the fray a little at the flood 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 sludge would be handled safely and chilly. mon accordions father, martin lindstrom, appears on rovers, fed berries, photo from a rica. no. you amanda, that a papa. oh yes, that's my father. definitely. mm hm. men bulletins advocate, say that fido laden's lawyers say that the company because of its visits to a rica who gray to precautions than they were required to. and that it was impossible to foresee that people would be exposed to the wise um, managed,
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escalates bonita for off 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 from will tend to believe that it was much more predictable than it really was more than incredible, by just vol threw up money for less to cash advance. people in this town won't even dare to think that belief may have done anything wrong. they're the only thing my father sent to that effect was, as we understood that they wouldn't take care of the material pro play. he never said, i understood it. ya, but i don't know what he meant by. we may be only live out that way or maybe there was some kind of consensus among mist off that they'd never have dead speak about it openly. my my bill went sad huck
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if dish almighty linds 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's nothing that could be used as evidence in the courtroom. ah, conversation and you see so 12 i'm good. yeah, i just want to add to that. yeah, i want justice to be done 50 out of my. my son was killed. kin my boss, me who killed your son. wiley bo lead a and my dad, the senate, the took secretarial here and he knew exactly what they were doing. ox are and the
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we have no further question there. frolla, knowledge, fill them out. lessons on your side, please. i know your honor like to not up out of the opposing party has no questions the hearing us over now. the or so to tire in stock form one other or we've been here for almost 2 months if you 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. the sushi huge sums are spent on experts and consulting muscle from recall to produce hundreds of pages worth of reports, as they see more, 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 bully them in that of manish name. all it into lead that almost caught bullied and claims that the plaintiffs suffered no damages. and if they did it, it's not the result of their waste. bullied and doesn't even describe it as waste. boom. did salad material of negative value. did the rest of the out? a negative to bad? ah. but i'm 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 who are still up as emotional for 11 years of work boils down to a single minute, 11 a m from alga. i note in the middle there are you ready to taught how to from okay, here we go. okay. the verdict goes, looked at foot ma'am. mm hm. okay. oh i, i need to talk to the people here. what's the verdict at
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bowie and what, what in what ah ha, the interest will smell me this week. ha, ha ha. that of course were very disappointed. we hoped for a different outcome. morgan, morgan, there are many, many people in the city of africa are who stayed up all night. they are night. mm hm. 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, i don't, but i think that the actually really grandma, we're sorry we raised your hopes what, but i also want to ask for your forgiveness another day. then you don't have to do that to rodriguez that we're very grateful for all the work you have done that. yeah, i know you thought that you would win as i'm 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 me now.
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life was a goals believer at all. or during this preceding bulletins rule in 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 home to sure. and this trial i'm afraid to say she left a ting, sweat or vault, but the might be 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 tom.
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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 philip. ha o. andrew caught them up on an a 2 to 3 into mailman. men, the men of the lawyers for erica, of course, do not agree with the verdict. but they also say that the court has made an important error. you see on 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 them. come been ye hold oh
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a i i can i see us. i got a 30 minute verdict is read the key in bio ah, there it is. oh, she yes. oh hemphill. martin, i'm sorry. it didn't work. the court now decided to apply swedish law to the case also on the lease with a place. it's the statute of limitations. yeah, don't hor, replugged. 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 for the commercial set up only then 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 not 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 bullied and toxic waste have their claims barred by the statute of limitations before they're even born or could be on the mobile phones. this fort, it's difficult to accept that justice has been done. 2 ah, dumb stolen to get a quote from to let
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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 laden is responsibility for what happened, you know, rica for this amount with we should claim a, 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
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