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“As far as I’m concerned, those people don’t exist.” — Arizona Republican Governor Jack Williams, telling farm workers they’d be arrested if they were to strike and boycott during harvest seasons (May 1972). May Day harkens back to celebrations of spring, a renewal and fertility. In Rome, I witnessed one such event: the festival of
Mercury poisons rivers in Peru Mass reports of 'Minamata disease' Minamata disease was first identified in the city of Minamata, in the southern Kumamoto prefecture in 1956 and was traced to the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater of a chemical factory. The release was discovered after many locals began reporting severe neurological symptoms, including numbness in the limbs, muscle weakness, loss of vision and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, it can cause paralysis, insanity, coma or even death within just a matter of weeks. The toxic chemicals, released by a ...
Japan: Johnny Depp film 'Minamata' brings industrial disaster to the fore dw.com 5/11/2021 Julian Ryall (Tokyo) The film revisits the ongoing legal and health struggles of residents affected by an industrial mercury spill. Photographer Aileen Mioko Smith told DW she hopes the movie will reignite dialogue around the disaster. © Courtesy Everett Collection/picture alliance 'Minamata' is set for a September release Fifty years after American photographer W. Eugene Smith first arrived in the Japanese port town of Minamata, the fight for recognition and compensation still cont...
SHARE “I didn’t want to make an obscure, small art film that people didn’t see,” says Andrew Levitas. “This specific story was made so people could see it.” The renowned sculptor and photographer – and husband of celebrated classical singer Katherine Jenkins – is talking about his new film, Minamata. A powerful and poignant history lesson, it tells the story of the mercury poisoning of Minamata residents in Japan via a chemical factory owned by the Chisso Corporation. Levitas captures this shocking story through the lens of Life magazine photographer W Eugene Smith (played b...