In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, discovered that their homes, schools and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump, which was now leaking toxic substances and wreaking havoc on their health. Through interviews with many of the extraordinary housewives turned activists, POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL shows how they effectively challenged those in power, forced America to reckon with the human cost of unregulated industry, and created a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.
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This tragedy was so prominent in my childhood memories-- it was just down the road and was really my first experience with political double-talk and watching people fight so hard for something that others told them simply wasn't there... "but we SEE IT". Nope. You are not seeing it. Gaslighting decades before that was a popular term. And the "housewives" who stepped out of their comfort zones to fight for their children and their communities are the real heroes.