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can. read those who don't consume don't eat and enjoy. doing the same that on the bus and in that equal distances also means all equals distance me. don't we don't sell him dual. booting as a solicitor. eight hundred fifty children are now registered were she to be center. i did but to the amount i counted but it was not that i am think so i doubt so much
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you once again what was said of them those about to would be incorrect they can cite a site it says about did you i wanted you meant was going on how does that example goes out of a job of us got that amount of us made and most of them come on that six second choice the cubical pay for any of this or go i mean that is that is a bit on my depend on what they say the most as it will count that i knew i meant as an a.m.a. i can make good money because of my subset payments i.e. it was good but it was a myth that it made us all still but they don't feel that i need them by i mean them that i dont is that is a part of what is going it. to matt himself right make the i member i did for he was other but by then you know god did anything. in two thousand and fifteen gave four point five billion dollars to a chair holders but not a single cent has been given to the decontamination of bhopal. for weeks we tried to reach the communications department at. to get an interview
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without success. was going to answer those questions it's pretty important i'm not aware of who that is the top of my head we have fifty thousand employees i have . never called us back so we decided to go to the company's general assembly in midland in the us to ask our questions. cameras are not allowed inside so we stayed in the parking lot sorry. yeah i've been talking about this here whether any resolution to this that you still. serve. me ask you to please leave. your. respects to our stamp here to understand you're arrested yet understand. we quickly realized that we were not welcome. yes they're. going to call this tree
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. ok so i can stay there in the traffic. ok so we carefully followed their rules for forty five long minutes. until the communications department. decided to finally set foot outside. a low sorry to disturb you i'm a french journalist for the property relations and we told him no sorry. i don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about. you don't want to talk about the kids they're all sick there i'm sorry it would be appropriate for me to say anything. so we thought of another solution. we would bring our questions directly to the personal residence of the c.e.o. of dow mr liveris along with this letter we displayed an american style election sign to make. sure that he would miss it.
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and i'm not on the property here. though are. you working for miss thirty there is the company are you working for. are you concerned about siri are you concerned about what's up winning in bhopal you know they're all still contaminating look the kids look rational she's just thirteen years old it's terrible so wide though it's not doing anything. i don't know sir. but it doesn't touch you you don't mind. so well dolly's not doing anything. a few days later we finally received an email from down the company in the manse bhopal was a terrible tragedy that we will never forget. but they relieve themselves of all responsibility stating that we acquired union carbide more than sixteen years after
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the catastrophe of one thousand nine hundred four continues to address global issues through human solutions. issues like clean water as important as life itself . was working to make water safe and readily available to people all over the globe you know. nothing is more fundamental. nothing. in dollars wake countless victims and human tragedies pile up without any damage to the company's profit. in december two thousand and fifteen. the biggest financial operation in its history. of one hundred thirty billion dollars with another american chemical giant dupont. a mad.
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maidenhead. there's a lot of good chemistry between. dupont made its fortune with dynamite. nylon. and tough line yet it was a magical material that prevents food from sticking to. however behind the success of tough line dupont hides a dark secret i just can't believe. and do. more than keep. this. girl worth a window on. this respect. at
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the heart of this drama is one city parkersburg. lost in the eastern u.s. . this city was built around the dupont factory. suzanne bailey came here in one thousand seventy eight to work on the tough line production lines. i went to work in maybe eight thousand nine hundred seventy eight that was my glorious day. i took up pictures it's you it's me. it's out gray hair. in the middle. you know i was so happy i was that was the job i mean everybody wanted the money but the benefits. everything like that it was secure the chemical
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industry is a growing growing by leaps and by. i mean you can just mention to dupont name and door swung open it was like princes coming through the door you know. in first one buyer and one. bright future with. where you're at the so i was thrilled i was absolutely thrilled that it. a few months after starting her job at dupont suzanne bailey became pregnant in january of one thousand nine hundred one she gives birth to the little bucky. when he was born it was very traumatic they didn't know what to do with it they've never seen anything like it. i cannot figure out what happened. he had half an hour. half in. the eye as
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a keyhole pupil. i didn't know what to do i was fraid. i had no idea what was wrong. bucky survived he is now thirty five years old. but his childhood was spent between his home and the hospital. i had thirty surgeries a span of you know six or seven years where they took cartilage so for my nose a metal plate here. they stretched my forehead out so that they could use the. old one those here still have one functioning. we had to put a hockey mask on him and it guards because he was in the lab the teachers face.
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holdall. he had to wear those for. i would say three months it's. only the only way that he got to tame up was just to eat how he sees as a key to good and to have you know so many surgeries and it's pretty intense from walking out of public and going through a store or a restaurant. so it is you answer all the eyes are on you. school when you go in and you're trying to make here for. all this she is here to for. after her maternity leave suzanne bailey began to suspect her job as the cause of bucky's deformity. a mysterious source of to one molecule in particular. eight the molecule in tough line that stops food from sticking to pans and i went back to work the first day i went to the locker and i found the paper laying there
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i picked it up i began reading about it. it was talking about how the rats were fed the ca and what the form that had around her face. and i thought that sounds just like back in. it was very similar to what they said absolutely very similar almost identical to what he had that's why i knew that there was something wrong i thought that's why i connect. the scientific studies suzanne bailey found had been conducted by a subcontractor of dupont it's study baby rats whose mothers were exposed to see eight they developed abnormal eye lenses. i immediately walked at that door went down to medical and i said is this what's wrong with my baby oh no no let me on this point. it was a motto. of a year or two. but in the meantime dupont was
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secretly investigating the pregnant women working in their factory two out of seven children born to the factory workers had facial deformities like bucky. shortly after dupont decided to transfer suzanne bailey and her colleagues to other departments. at the time canton whimsically also worked in the manufacturing department of tough line. he remembers the discussion he had with his manager he said can we sell the women home out all. he said oh don't worry him or her the men just the when we feel that it can cause trouble so i saw him or heard me say. clinton whimsically was a lab technician he handled c eight for thirty years to breed the fumes from all
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the samples we breathed we just in time when we saw when you would take care of us and. so i just didn't budge all those for years near enough. and we didn't realize who our health was an issue then. surgeon diagnosed me have a new cancer. so he had to take all my rectum part of my cold. war hawks still with you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw spread a tell you that would be gossip and probably worthwhile for the record they. think you are not cool enough to buy. all the hawks that we along with all worth watching. let's talk about blackness and the bills of being black. and always well in
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a big house down the at least that's what i've been told but it was simply that we and remains as such because we simply forgot i don't. eat seemly without them the real rains out paint you've told us the sickness of trusting our enemy we came to face. it that's what i call the lack of blackness or understanding the blues of being black. she blues of being black she can mandate that we attack knowing how when and what to do to come this simple and as natural as b. beck is simply to the feeling blue is black and blue.
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for everybody. who's now continue emsley has to live with an astronomy bag attached to his stomach. he changes it day and night. at the factory he worked in a team with three other technicians. buddies people i really love seen him every day cared about those guys are all dead and i should bet they didn't see retard. now no. way emsley and his colleagues were never warned about the risks of c eight. however we procured
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a confidential document from dupont. it's dated one thousand nine hundred eighty two thirty four years ago. and it mr karr the medical director at the time expressed his concern about the consequences of c h retained in the blood of employees. he specifically recommends that practical steps be taken to reduce this exposure. all employees not just kept on area more cursed are exposed so rather than to do anything they just read it out. and never seen a letter like at. a met and can say what. we could have prevented a lot of laws. in favor told us there's a problem. i had to cover. my day law.
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why didn't they have us protected. too costly. we tracked down bruce carr dupont's former medical director. he is now enjoying a peaceful retirement by the ocean far from parkersburg. i have a document of nine hundred eighty two showing that you were aware of that see it was toxic for workers why have you not told them the truth at the time they were all told the truth they were told the language you actually know i have interviewed some employees and they were not aware of anything we told our lawyers everything we do. you know back at night you know. you're trying to do reconstruction history and you can't do that why have you not print taken your own please. push it. dupont would not only put their employees in danger once again tens of thousands of
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people would be affected. they live up to seventy kilometers away from the factory . one man would discover this a bit by accident. joe kiger. on october thirty first two thousand he received a letter from the municipality concerning the quality of the tap water it mentions c eight setting in my court yard the wife was watering the flowers and we got our water bill and the mail and with that build came a letter. the so i can get form letters all the time saying like ants own banging in front of over and you think about the next thing you know you throw it away and that's basically what this was it just caught my attention and i start it and then the flag started first of all what was say here which is used by the or what's dupont have to do with our. joe cocker
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sought clarification on the matter. called the fun to try to find out so they put me in touch with a guy i don't name mr kennedy they. like to know more about the cia the issue is now. the worry about about it was this. and i wasn't anything to worry about and he was flat out lying on the me and i can tell that. to get to the bottom of it he takes to plant to court. after a long legal battle the judge forces the company to declassify their internal studies on seeing. joe cocker discovers the truth behind the factory of parkersburg . for decades they've been dumping c eight waste into the river. to make things worse dupont has known since one thousand nine hundred four that the
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molecule spread into the regions tap water. the company found astronomical levels in public taps. up to fifty times the limit of toxicity according to the u.s. environmental protection agency. that was nineteen eighty-four and we didn't come out. so it sixteen years yeah before we even had them up about it and they as you say right here they chose not to do anything about it. and they knew what was common with the law bill these of they got they were trying to slide under the radar. for so long they have done nothing but lie for years the faithful about what this stuff is all about they're all out here because of what they've done there's people dying because of what they've done. during all these years more than seventy thousand people have been drinking contaminated water. in two thousand and eleven both scientific research and the us justice
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system established that c. eight could cause six diseases thyroid disorder high cholesterol all sort of collide just high blood pressure kidney cancer or to stick killer cancer. today three thousand five hundred people in the parkersburg region are ill. they've all filed complaints against dupont. this is the case for all. time and out of quietness for about seventeen years. and i still have time for a problem and i have our cholesterol. and there is a ross machine we're seeing. today can doesn't have a cool in anymore he too is living with an astronomy bag of
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a sudden you don't function normally but you. know it's one. and there's not any. any hope and that's called. controllers. and this control didn't want to things in my wife. in a way i lived through that. a document reveals that all of these victims could have been spared. on may twenty second one thousand nine hundred eighty four a meeting took place at the du pont headquarters the directors are worried about the consequences for the inhabitants they plan to eliminate all c eight emissions. i wanted to show you these sentences here. but finally
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no measures are taken to their argument it's not economically attractive. that was in what year later for. france for we were married at all. oh and all. that's crazy that's all the bad you know that the head of and it's. just disregarded it kept on and every door it was company green cross this whole situation they knew what they were doing to us and they continued to do it for money that's the only reason they continued to do it. dupont refuses to collectively compensate the three thousand five hundred sick people they prefer to study the cases one by one as a result since two thousand and twelve only one victim has been able to get
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a trial. dupont was sentenced to pay her one point six million dollars the three thousand four hundred ninety nine remaining victims like robot can are still awaiting at the current pace of the trials the last one would take place in one hundred years do you still trust and then that you will get a trial at some point. and i should probably have to be out of. there will be a. transmission made living long enough to receive. orders to know they're going. to be tracked on his main three millions of dollars which i think they should stand up to. and i can write with a pick with marriage.
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dupont refused all of our requests for an interview so we drove to their headquarters in delaware on the east coast to convince them to answer our questions . at the other end of the line we reached the head of media relations daniel turner we. are going to repeat the basic ways you know we meet and to make a proper interview you know at some point but first let's me it's you know i'm just here i think you can see me here i'm making signs that. you know that there is like an incredible amount of documents showing that you have known the duple for the past thirty years. and knew that you were poisoning your employees at the washington word splints. season well you know that recognizing the fact that you have to leave very close and so i was in the first sense. ok.
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first question. yeah. my question is ok i'll be. fine later today we are in two thousand and sixteen still steals three thousand five hundred person we serve a disease a way to just have the right to get the trial. i mean how long are you going to deny your responsibilities are you waiting that day old i. doubt it will provide for your for nothing else. no out like if people provide with. the. we did receive a press release from dupont. but without a single word from the victims. they claim to have studied see it carefully for
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decades and affirm to have always acted responsibly. in two thousand and fifteen dupont finally stopped using c eight the company was also ordered by the courts to clean up the region. but how many generations are still to experience the after effects of this contamination. in the chemical world history inexorably tends to repeat itself. it takes decades to reveal the truth and just as many years for the multinationals to be prosecuted . in their laboratories new toxic molecules are constantly being developed. but in ten twenty thirty or forty years who
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