Toxic Waste Left by US Bases in the Philippines
Myrla Baldonado
Organizer at Alliance for Bases Clean-Up International leading the campaign to clean-up toxic wastes & contamination left by US Bases in the Philippines. Learn more about Myrla.
For more Info, email: MyrlaBaldonado7@gmail.com,
Vapor Trail (Clark)
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and Emerson College Professor John Gianvito’s 2010 film is a devastating and insightful condemnation of the dangerous U.S. military practices that have recklessly exposed an entire community in the Philippines to a host of fatal toxins. Centered around an abandoned U.S. military base, Gianvito’s gripping exploration of the military’s lack of regulation and responsibility uses the horrific environmental contamination as a starting point for a meditation on the crippling effects of colonialism and unchecked militarism. A skillful melding of cinema-vérité, interviews, historical texts and landscape photography, Vapor Trail is a unique and urgent political intervention.
WAKE (SUBIC)
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“As thousands of workers from the former Subic Naval Base starting seeking compensation we became aware of asbestos exposure and the occurrence of mesothelioma cancer due to asbestos poisoning.” (John Gianvito, filmmaker)