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Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought again | dG1fMjRxNjJwa2VBeUk

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00:01It was just such a nice neighborhood. We had fun there.

00:06A lot of times we would just be near the school playing baseball.

00:10We always ended up near what we called the Black Lagoon.

00:14To a child, it was like a wonderland.

00:17We had these rocks that we called pop rocks.

00:20We would just slide them across and they would actually have a flame.

00:24And I remember my mother always yelled about our shoes.

00:27This one time, I came home and she said,

00:30It looks like your sneakers are burnt.

00:32What are you doing?

00:33I'm just playing at the school.

00:39The mighty waters of Niagara Falls serve the needs of industry and the welfare of mankind.

00:44Niagara Falls in the 1970s is synonymous with chemicals.

00:48It was called Chemical Row because there were so many manufacturers along there.

00:53Chemical companies in Niagara Falls and across the United States

00:56were bearing a toxic waste.

00:58But that was their backyard.

01:00The residents' kids played in the canal.

01:02That's where they went.

01:03People had no idea that they were living on top of 22,000 tons of toxic chemicals.

01:10Today in Albany, the New York State Health Department declared a health emergency.

01:14Chemical waste is coming out of the ground.

01:16Birth defects and miscarriages.

01:17Severe migraine headaches.

01:18Respiratory disease.

01:19Already eight cases of cancer on a 15-house street.

01:22It was hard to believe this could happen in the United States of America.

01:26Each and every one of you is group of murder.

01:29It was doomed to be a screaming match right from the beginning.

01:32Can you tell me when I'm not going to lose any more children because one is already dead?

01:36Please tell me.

01:37It was like watching an accident in slow motion.

01:39There is no evidence to indicate an immediate health hazard to residents of the area.

01:43Residents of the area.

01:44Residents at Love Canal really thought the government were going to rescue them.

01:48It really hit home for us that we have to make this happen.

01:51They're not going to do it for us.

01:52So that spurred me to what? To do something.

01:55We've got to do something.

01:56I mean, the fight came to us. We didn't look for it.

01:58We protested literally every day.

02:00The women told us the state office had dismissed their study as useless housewife data.

02:05They thought we were useless housewives.

02:07But we were stronger than that.

02:09Those women kept that story out there and they would come up with all different ways to get the cameras there.

02:15I wasn't thinking about building a movement or anything like that.

02:18I was thinking about survival.

02:21This incredible group of women become the faces of environmental reform.

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