Films to inspire action

Posted on Dec 9, 2010 | Comments (1)

Video can be a powerful tool for building the strong movement we need to pass truly protective laws and regulations. 

Videos have the emotional impact that words on paper or speeches don’t have. They show the true cost of pollution on people. The visual images are indelible. They make a problem concrete and personal. They make us visualize and feel the connection to the issues and to each other.

These videos help us educate and connect with growing numbers of friends and fans in our communities to help us strengthen the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow. Use them to inspire more people to work with us to pass laws and policies that prevent harm to our health from toxic chemicals.

The following videos (or clips from them) were shown at the AHT annual meeting on December 9th, 2010

Toxic Chemicals Lobby: Exclusive Leaked Footage
Cartoon characters as toxic products organizing a fake safe chemicals campaign. 

Song of the Canary
This clip is from the 1978 film, Song of the Canary, from New Day Films. In 1977 60 workers at a chemical production plant in California making the pesticide DBCP (1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane) were found to be sterile. The EPA prohibited DBCP use in the United States in September 1977. DBCP is a potent carcinogen and perhaps the most powerful testicular toxin ever made.
 
The Idiot Cycle
The film follows the cycle taken by the world's largest chemical producers and how these chemical companies, who manufacture and emit cancer causing chemical substances, also develop, produce and invest in cancer treatments, the most profitable disease on the planet.

Do You Want A Toxic Manicure?
In 2007, the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, and Women’s Voices for the Earth established the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance (the Alliance). The Alliance was created to connect activists and organizations dedicated to improving nail salon worker health and safety, as well as to develop a set of policy recommendations that will advance worker rights in this industry.

Other Videos we recommend

Additional films you might want to use for starting the conversation about threats to our health and how the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow is working to pass laws and policies that prevent harm to our health from toxic chemicals.

Contaminated Without Consent is a 16-minute video available free for you to use to help inform your community about the hidden risks from chemical contaminants found in our homes, workplaces, the products we buy, and even our bodies. AHT has some of these avilable on DVD. Email us to get a copy.

Living Downstream
The life and work of Sandra Steingrabber

A Sense of Wonder
The play about the life and work of Rachel Carson in her own words.

No Family History

Addicted to Plastic

The Story of Cosmetics

Xenoestrogenia
About DES and Endocrite Disruptors

The yes men fix the world
About the Bhopal Disaster

Homo Toxicus

Marion Stoddart - The Work of 1000

Food Inc

Links to more trailers, films and/or online catalogs:

Workplace and Environmental Health and Safety Films

Icarus Films Environmental Issues & Sustainability

Bullfrog Films

Grinning Planet