Her bosses said the job was safe. Then her hair fell out and coworkers started dying of cancer
“Vina Colley was Erin Brockovich before Erin Brockovich,” Kevin Williams wrote in a 2020 Belt Magazine article titled, “The Poisonous Legacy of Portsmouth’s Gaseous Diffusion Plant.” Williams continues,
“Colley has become an unlikely citizen-scientist, spending a lifetime researching and documenting PORTS and its sins… Colley was hired as an electrician at the facility in 1980 and worked there for three years. ‘I was exposed to everything. We were cleaning off radioactive equipment that we did not know was radioactive. They never told us,’ Colley told me. Then, she said, her hair started falling out, she developed rashes, and ‘I got really sick and went to the hospital, not knowing that it was my job causing me all these problems. I had big tumors.’ In the four decades since, she’s faced a range of health problems, including chronic bronchitis, tumors, and pulmonary edema.”
In this episode, we sit down with Colley herself to talk about growing up in Ohio during America’s Cold War atomic age, her experience working as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and her decades-long fight to hold the plant and the government accountable for what they’ve done to her, her coworkers, and her community, and to get them the compensation they deserve.
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The corporate world is full of the worst kinds of toxicity. Especially in America where we have let traitors in the gov, gut the protections that earlier generations fought for.
This is so true as someone who has worked in the environment for years. Many of these people have no souls and the most vile people you can meet. Many are worst than common criminals. This is so sad and I applaud her bravery.
@@lembk That's why I am supporting RFK Jr. He is the only candidate committed to ending this.
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What a courageous woman. Thank you for sharing her story
Great information. Heart felt thanks for all her work on the TRUTH !!! ALL MUST BE EXPOSED !!! We need names of these people responsible for this attack on Humanity !!!
I once asked my father why he didn't help my siblings and I get jobs at Hanford. His response all my friends are dead. This is a massive problem. Enough is enough. We the people need to get together and force change. Love to all.
That's why I am supporting RFK Jr.
Corp Capitalism, the best system that money can buy!
As a matter of national security in the 50's and 60's the location of any nuclear processing plants would have been kept very secret for fear of foreign interference. No reason for it now though.
Please Sue the corp
RFK Jr has a 40 year track record of suing these corporations and the corrupt government agencies that allow these dangers in the workplace and the greater environment, He is the only candidate whose life's work has proven he puts people before profits.
Good show
Capital demands *Human Sacrifice*🙄
Where is Chris Hedges?
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Like and subscribe patriots!
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This is another reason we must demand full automation of the workplace and implementation of A.I. ground worker drones as quickly as possible. Too many jobs nowadays are simply too dangerous for humans to work at. Even with current safety standards. For the greater health and good of everyone. Those jobs should be fully automated and phased out once and for all. Anything less is cruel and inhuman.
RFK Jr is the only candidate focused on this issue.. He is advocating for the use of beneficial application of AI and against the nefarious uses that could strip us of our freedoms. He sees both the pluses and the negative and that is why he chose a running mate who is an expert in AI.
I look at this that way-stop creating such poisonous crap that is lethal for humans,animals and the environment!
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Can you carry on a onversation without using the word " like " ? Judas Priest !!! WTF !!!