Aug. 7: Film Showing: Poison DUst

POISON DUst: A New Look at U.S. Radioactive Weapons
A Powerful Full Length (84 min) Documentary

A Benefit Showing for WBAI
Sunday, August 7
3:30 & 6:30 PM
Riverside Church, South Hall
120 & Riverside Dr, NYC
Tickets $20/$10. - ALL proceeds to WBAI

Film followed by a Panel Discussion with -
Juan Gonzales - Daily News journalist & Democracy Now co-host - broke the story on U.S. soldiers poisoned by DU.
Sue Harris - Film Director
Sara Flounders - Producer
GI's, Vets and Families who have been poisoned by DU.

Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth= defects and the growing disability of her young husband - a vet.
Filmmaker Sue Harris skillfully weaves, through interviews, their journey from personal trauma, to 'positive' test results for uranium poisoning, to learning what radioactive Depleted Uranium weapons are. Their frustrations in dealing with the Veterans Administration's silence becomes outrage as they realize that thousands of other GI's have the same symptoms.
Veterans, anti-war organizers, environmentalists and health care providers will find this wake-up call to today's GIs invaluable.
Today more than 1/3 of all 1991 Gulf War vets are on VA Disability Benefits. Meanwhile U.S. use of radioactive DU weapons has increased six-fold from 1991 to Gulf War II!

Directed and edited by Sue Harris and the Peoples Video Network.
music by Movement in Motion, Catherine Moon, the Fourth Wall Players, Pam Parker & Jobari Namdar-Parker.
Produced by Sara Flounders and the DU Education Project at the International Action Center.

Organized by the WBAI Local Station Board
Call 212-209-2800 for more info.