Since 1989 multinational mining companies have been coming to Turkey in order to mine gold with the cyanide leaching process. Eurogold, an Australian and Canadian joint venture is one of them. Their mine is situated in Bergama. The people living in Bergama and the 17 villages in the surroundings started to resist the project. The people won all the instances of their legal struggle. However, the mine still operates. This documentary followed their struggle since 1996.
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Sheep breeders who see their sheep die from dioxin. An environmental teacher who fights against environmental crimes. Farmers who cultivate land polluted by the nearby dumps. Stories, reports and testimony of the massacre of a land. We are in Italy, in the Campania region where there are 1200 unauthorised toxic waste dumps. In the background, the Camorra business that uses lorries and mechanical diggers instead of pistols. A Camorra with white collars, deviated entrepreneurial activity and colluded institutions...
Untitled“You thought they came home safely from the war. They didn't”. Poison Dust tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. Filmmaker Sue Harris skillfully weaves, through interviews, their journey from personal trauma, to ‘positive' test results for uranium poisoning, to learning the truth about radioactive Depleted Uranium weapons. Their frustrations in dealing with the Veterans Administration's silence becomes outrage as they realize that thousands of other GI's have the same symptoms.
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