Love Canal with Lois Gibbs: Part I

Lois Gibbs speaks about the beginnings of Love Canal. In the mid-1970s, Lois moved into what looked like the perfect neighborhood near Buffalo, New York, with her husband and two small children. Several years later she discovered that her neighborhood had a dirty secret, which was making her son, Michael, sick and would dramatically change the rest of her life.

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• hazardous
• waste
• Buffalo
• Niagara
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• Project

[angrydoug]

I'm originally from Niagara Falls, and the part of this story that has never been accurately portrayed is that it was a bunch of Mafia types running the Board of Education that forced Hooker to sell the land for $1, then subsequently developed the land against Hooker's objections - it was these goombas that should have gone to jail...but Hooker was held to blame instead.

[duanedragon2]

I've never seen this woman speak before but knew somewhere 1 person took a stand and changed the world. She has been my hero for many years. Thank you for putting this online.

[garycalgary]

@greengill fucking bitch or fuckin asshole depending if you are a boy or girl

[garycalgary]

i assume she isn't sick....

[greengill]

:ilied:



[greengill]

:trollface:

[airforcemax]

@angrydoug, toxic people and organizations always seem able to silence anyone who exposes them for who they are.

This is why I suggest to look beyond approved and sanctioned images of people, public and private organizations by researching [keep in mind Intent, Context, Circumstance, and Consequences] how they attain wealth, power, authority, and supporters especially how they keep them that can reveal their personality and character.

[tonydichi]

THE BOMB THAT FELL ON NIAGARA

by Geoff Kelly and Louis Ricciuti

Google the above!

As large as Love Canal was/is it is only a small part of the ongoing chemical and radioactive dumps around Niagara Falls.

[poodtang1]

1:01 Lois Gibbs "and i did not know about Love Canal"

Makes you think about how much or how little we know about what could be buried beneath our feet.

Probably nothing, mayby not.

[MrCamarra]

can't decide tothis day if I love her or hate her..I'm originally from Love Canal-born and raised on 101st.It was the greatest neighborhood on the planet..there willnever be another!!!

[Salemaniac1]

@lilaclang Hooker said it wasn't fit to be built on. They did and said everything they possibly could. In NO WAY can any RATIONAL human being blame them for what was obviously the Education Dept's obvious carelessness, blame, neglect and outright criminal act.

[lilaclang]

yah, well mafia goombas or not, human beings still have the freedom to make the right choices regardless of the threat of losing thier fingers or whatever. Hooker Chemical is still irresponsible and cowardly on top of it if your claim is correct.