No Defense Trailer NoDefense Documentary 2020-01-09 | More than 650 towns contaminated.Millions of Americans affected.The largest-known polluter of chemicals that are nearly indestructible …… is also the regulator that has failed to act.This is the story of the United States Military’s war on water.
PFAS Diaries: Thousands of miles from the U.S., mothers fight military contamination NoDefense Documentary 2021-11-19 | Five years ago, mothers in Okinawa, Japan, found out their tap water was contaminated by PFAS, and with no industry on the island, the obvious culprit are the U.S. Military bases which make up 15 percent of the island. Now, mothers there, like Ai Yamamoto, are fighting for testing.
PFAS Diaries: After four cancer diagnoses in one family, doctors asked: Where did you grow up? NoDefense Documentary 2021-07-20 | First her uncle, then her young brother, then herself, then her father. After cancer struck four members of Stel Bailey's family while her husband was deployed, doctors began to ask, "Where did you grow up?"
PFAS Diaries: Maybe the highest levels anywhere on Earth NoDefense Documentary 2021-06-25 | Pat Elder is a writer and PFAS activist in St. Mary's City, Maryland, and in his diary he raises questions about the contamination of fish and other sea life in the Chesapeake Bay, nearby several military installations. "We only know as much as they tell us," Elder says.
PFAS diaries: Why is it so hard to get a blood test? NoDefense Documentary 2021-04-30 | Jason Keller asks why it's so difficult for him - and other service members like him - to get a blood test to see how much PFAS they're been exposed to.
PFAS Diaries: I threw away all of my medals. NoDefense Documentary 2021-04-29 | Jim Holmes used to worry that something bad would happen to him while he was deployed, but it turns out it was his family back home in Satellite Beach, Florida, near the base, that was really in danger. When he found out why, he tossed all of his military accolades.
PFAS Diaries: Kevin Ferrara - A military firefighter lives with guilt and fear NoDefense Documentary 2021-04-23 | Kevin Ferrara is a military firefighter turned advocate against the Department of Defense use of AFFF firefighting foam, which contains harmful PFAS and has been found at more than 650 military sites across the country.
No Defense: Veterans exposed to PFAS NoDefense Documentary 2020-10-15 | Here are some veterans from around the United States talking about their experience and feelings toward water contamination. You can share your story with us at nodefensedoc@gmail.com
No Defense: Behind the scenes with Lenny Bourin NoDefense Documentary 2020-10-14 | BEHIND THE SCENES: Executive producer/writer/videographer/problem solver Lenny Bourin has some really stable hands! Bumpy ride on Van Etten Lake as team No Defense took a boat tour with Township Supervisor Aaron Weed.
Foam laps up on Oscodas public beach NoDefense Documentary 2020-10-14 | Foam laps up on Oscoda's public beach. The beach, which is across from the former Wurtsmith Air Force base, also sits in a plume of PFAS leaching from the former base due to years of firefighting foam discharge.
PFAS Diaries: Where the foam is made, Peshtigo, WI NoDefense Documentary 2020-08-04 | Wisconsin resident Cindy Boyle lives in Peshtigo, which is on the outskirts of Marinette, Wisconsin, and Peshtigo is home to Johnson Controls - Tyco, a private company contracted by the U.S. Military to make fire fighting foam that is known to be toxic to the environment and harmful to humans. As a result, Boyle's dream home is contaminated and she fears for her children as the cancer cases pile up in her family."This is a forever chemical," Boyle tells us. "But those children are my forever legacy and I will not stop fighting against this contamination."
PFAS Diaries: David Parks in Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan NoDefense Documentary 2020-08-04 | West Virginia resident David Parks served at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan, and was diagnosed with cancer at age 24.
PFAS Diaries: My dairy farm was infected by the PFAS poison. NoDefense Documentary 2020-08-01 | New Mexico farmer Art Schaap has been forced to abandon his dairy farm because of PFAS contamination from the nearby Cannon Air Force base.
PFAS Diaries: It happened to us, it can happen to you. NoDefense Documentary 2020-08-01 | Pennsylvania residents Hope Grosse and Joanne Stanton live outside of the former Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster, PA -- a suburb of Philadelphia. They are part of a lawsuit against Department of Defense over the PFAS contamination there.Cancer and disease have plagued their families for years, pushing them into a fight over the lack of effort to clean up.
PFAS Diaries: Gary Enos in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, just outside of the former Pease base NoDefense Documentary 2020-07-31 | Gary Enos served at the former Pease Air Force base and is now dealing with cancer that may be linked to his exposure to PFAS in a drinking water well that was not shut down until recently.
PFAS Diaries: Symptoms consistent with Agent Orange; a widow presses for answers NoDefense Documentary 2020-07-31 | New Hampshire resident Doris Brock lost her husband, a military veteran, to cancer after a 35-year career at Pease Air Force base, where there is known PFAS contamination. His doctor said his symptoms were consistent with someone exposed to Agent Orange, yet he didn't serve in Vietnam. The cancer that he died from, bladder and prostate cancer, has been linked to PFAS exposure.
PFAS Diaries: One Michigan base contamination is affecting the drinking water for millions NoDefense Documentary 2020-07-29 | Michigan resident Cathy Wusterbarth is a cancer survivor who lives just outside of the former Wurtsmith Airforce Base where toxic foam regularly washes up on the shores of the beach where she worked as a lifeguard. In this diary, she explains how the contamination at Wurtsmith affects the drinking water for millions of people who rely on Lake Huron.
PFAS Diaries: Ive been to the doctor at least 200 times. NoDefense Documentary 2020-07-27 | Michigan resident Michael Cadrette was stationed at the former Wurtsmith Airforce Base where he hunted and fished regularly, not knowing that the fish with the highest known PFAS contamination in the world was found here. He tells us, "I guess I don't know what I want from the military, but I'd like them to admit they caused this."
PFAS Diaries: Linda Shosie near the Davis-Mothan Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona NoDefense Documentary 2020-07-02 | Arizona resident Linda Shosie lives outside of Davis-Mothan Air Force base. It's best known as an aircraft boneyard, but there's an invisible toxin lurking.
PFAS Diaries: My family are guinea pigs in a PFAS experiment that I didnt sign up for. NoDefense Documentary 2020-05-27 | New Hampshire resident Andrea Amico lives outside of the former Pease Air Force base, which is now a corporate park, home to 450 businesses, including a daycare where she sent her kids, not knowing about the contamination in the water.
The foam in Oscoda has been particularly bad in the Spring of 2020 NoDefense Documentary 2020-05-26 | The PFAS foam has been particularly bad in Oscoda this Spring. Resident Greg Cole captured it in photographs.
No Defense Do Not Eat’ public health advisory NoDefense Documentary 2020-05-19 | A December public health advisory issued by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) for PFAS at a popular Oscoda wildlife area still has not been publicized, more than five months after it was issued. According to a December, 2019 MDHHS memo, the aquatic food web at Oscoda’s Clark’s Marsh, which sits in a plume of PFAS from the former Wurtsmith Air Force base, "is contaminated beyond what has been seen at many other sites in the Great Lakes region, including sites of known PFOS contamination." At Clark’s Marsh, the PFOS surface water contamination is nearly 425 times higher than the acceptable legal limit of 12 parts per trillion. As a result, the MDHHS memo called for the issuance of a “’Do Not Eat’ public health advisory for all resident aquatic and semi-aquatic wildlife taken from the Marsh, including fish, aquatic and semi-aquatic mammals (including muskrats), amphibians (including frogs), mollusks (including snails), reptiles (including turtles), and arthropods (including crayfish).” But, Anthony Spaniola - a local homeowner and nationwide PFAS advocate - says that MDHHS has failed to act on repeated requests to issue a press release informing local residents of the health advisory, under political pressure to limit unfavorable publicity.“Their response has been that they don’t want to stir things up, and they’re not sure how many people eat from the area anyway,” Spaniola said. “So, they’ve effectively taken the ‘public’ and the ‘health’ out of public health.”MDHHS did add a few signs to the area, according to Mike Shriberg, the regional executive director of the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes Regional Center, and they posted it to the website. But a search shows that it's difficult to find.“When you have wildlife that are not able to be consumed by people it’s the state’s responsibility to put that information out there as publicly and visibly as possible, and that hasn’t happened yet,” Shriberg said. This is the first of its kind in terms of do-not-eat alerts in the state of Michigan and possibly in the country, Shriberg said, and that highlights the level of concern.Our documentary film, No Defense, focuses on the contamination problem in Oscoda, and other military sites like it, and prominently features a resident who does rely on all wildlife from this area to survive. The film, for which Spaniola was a consultant, previewed in Ann Arbor in February and mentioned the MDHHS memo. But three months after that showing, the memo still has not been publicized by MDHHS. “The whole thing about a consumption advisory is so that people know about it,” Shriberg said. “There’s an alert in place, and no one knows about it - it’s not really an alert.” Here is a clip from the film.
