DOCUMENTARY: THE PEOLE VS. AGENT ORANGE

North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection (NCCWP) hosts a screening of the award-winning 2020 documentary, The People VS. Agent Orange, on Tuesday, August 12, at KALA Performance Space, 1017 Marine Dr. in Astoria. Doors open at 6pm, with a chili special and beverages available for purchase. The film begins at 7pm. There is a $5 cover charge. Following the film, a Q&A will take place with Carol Van Strum, writer/activist, and author of “A Bitter Fog: Herbicides and Human Rights.” The film draws heavily from her experience and her book, “A Bitter Fog.”

FILM SYNOPSIS: Two heroic women fight to hold the manufacturers of Agent Orange accountable for its deadly legacy. Tran To Nga sues them for poisoning her and her family in Vietnam, and Carol Van Strum leads the community rights movement against aerial spraying in America and the use of 24D, the toxin found in Agent Orange. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films reservoir contamination while a massive industrial cover-up continues.