RADIO InterviewS and podcasts
NPR’s FRONT ROW NETWORK Jeremy Goeckner speaks with Alan Adelson and Carol Van Strum.
THE PAST AND PRESENT OF AGENT ORANGE JUNE 28, 2021 NPR 1A with Jenn White
PACIFICA and WBAI RADIO ARTS EXPRESS WITH JACK SHALOM
CLIMATE ONE: SHOULD NATURE HAVE RIGHTS?
an interview with Kate Taverna and Carol Van Strum, the main character of the Oregon part of the film.
“As a victim of Agent Orange, I know the importance of your mission and am sharing your message with our Veterans Radio audience.” This link brings up 15 program hours that have addressed Agent Orange over time, from 2006-present. — DALE THRONEBERRY, Veterans Radio, Michigan
"This film strongly relates to our current struggle to ban the egregious practice of toxic aerial herbicide spraying on forest lands. This practice poisons our watersheds, our water supplies, and all life here in Western Oregon."--KXCR Conversations with LARRY BLOOMFIELD, Florence, OR
“….the film is an elegantly structured tapestry that travels through fifty years of political and personal stories scattered globally with a large but compelling cast of characters. It is also a handsomely nuanced work” — GEORGE ROBINSON, CINE JOURNAL
https://cine-journal.blogspot.com/2021/03/ecocide-gift-that-keeps-taking.html
Center Stage with Mark Gordon (listen on SPOTIFY)
PRESS
‘The People Vs. Agent Orange’ on PBS: The documentary as social conscience | COMMENTARY
“…It is the grit, grace and courage of Nga and Van Strum that stay with you after the credits roll.” DAVID ZURAWIK, THE BALTIMORE SUN
The People vs. Agent Orange Exposes a Mass Poisoning in Plain Sight
“The People vs. Agent Orange, which masterfully captures this ongoing damage, should renew a debate about the use of these chemicals.”
-JASPER CRAVEN, THE NEW REPUBLIC
How the U.S. unleashed Agent Orange in its own backyard: It left a trail of appalling birth defects in Vietnam. But a new film lays bare how America also sprayed defoliant back home with devastating consequences - TOM LEONARD, THE DAILY MAIL
Lies, Cover-Ups and Government Conspiracies: ‘The People Vs. Agent Orange’ Chronicles the Fight Against the Use of Cancer-Causing Chemicals —JEFF CORNELL, SURVIVOR NET
“How Two Incredible Women Declared War On The Makers of Agent Orange Sprayed All Over Vietnam and the U.S. — NADETTE DE VISSER, THE DAILY BEAST
“…As the opening scene of a group of contemporary picnickers at Douglas County, Oregon’s Swiftwater Park shows, the tragedy it documents is of a public that continues to be unwitting bystanders in a campaign of mass destruction that’s never actually ended.” CHUCK THOMPSON, COLUMBIA INSIGHT
“The People vs. Agent Orange” has a gripping urgency, especially as a reminder that the history of chemicals’ effects on our bodies is still being written and fought over, and that what a secretive industry is allowed to cover up, it will.” — ROBERT ABELE, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Filmmakers Show How Agent Orange Catastrophe Did Not End with the Vietnam War — CRAIG PHILLIPS, BEHIND THE FILMS, PBS
Kate Taverna on Exploring the Aftermath of the Agent Orange Catastrophe in “The People vs. Agent Orange - Women in hollywood
"The People vs. Agent Orange (2020), is an emotional triumph as both storytelling and activism, weaving multiple devastating stories into an unforgettable call for action."
-- CORY FRYE, Mid Valley Noise
“I doubt I will see a documentary this year that is more powerful and more urgent than this one.”—LOUIS PROYECT: The Unrepentant Marxist
“…the documentary plays out like a Hollywood spy thriller, noting shady business practices, government cover-ups, thinly-veiled threats against the families of activists, guerrilla tactics, theft, and surveillance….A compelling and powerful investigative documentary, The People vs. Agent Orange is a shocking wake-up call that sheds light on environmental and human catastrophe that should not be missed.” —RACHEL WEST — ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS
"With disappearing evidence, threats, and contaminated reservoirs, this documentary has more twists than the average thriller."
—SALLY LEHMAN, Corvallis Advocate
New Docu “The People vs. Agent Orange” Connects The Dots Between Environmental And Reproductive Justice" — GIRLTALKHQ.COM
The E: Documentary explores effects of Agent Orange components persisting in rural Oregon
"This is a powerful documentary, shedding light on this urgent human issue that has been slipping through the cracks for decades." *****
-- MALIKA HARRIS , Irishfilmcritic.com
“…this issue is of the present and future..” -MARY GOW, Rutland Herald
“The People vs Agent Orange is a quiet, composed film that never grows angry. But so comprehensive and scathing is the information presented that, by the finale, viewers should be incensed beyond belief.” -JAMES VAN MAANEN, Trust Movies
The Directors of The People vs. Agent Orange on the New, Historic Legal Fights Captured in Their Documentary - CHASE HUTCHINSON, the Stranger, Seattle, WA.
“…Madame Tran and Carol, who are close in age, nearing 80, both understand that they need to be public figures to do what they need to do.”
—HOWARD KARREN, Provincetown Independent
“Meticulously researched… The People Versus Agency Orange travels to three continents and investigates 50 years of corruption and cover-up to reveal how this devastating weapon of mass destruction was quietly brought back to the US to write a new chapter in a long history of human misery.” — GAR SMITH, Berkeley Daily Planet