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Aizen, Marina. The Riachuelo River and the Mendoza case

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Date:

January 2014

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R16853-4-4-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 59

File no. (creator):

59

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Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings

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Item ID number:

5858694

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Aizen, Marina. The Riachuelo River and the Mendoza case
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Date(s):

January 2014

Place of creation:

Argentina

Extent:

3 video files (.mov, .mp4).
1 closed caption file (.vtt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 sound file (.mp3).
1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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File consists of an interview with Marina Aizen titled "The Riachuelo River and the Mendoza case." The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, preview video of the interview, printed transcript, sound recording, and closed captioning file.

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MSS2736

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From The Green Interview website: "Topic: Green rights; Water."

From The Green Interview website: "Marina Aizen, an award-winning Argentinian journalist who has written a comprehensive history of the Riachuelo decision and its consequences. She was formerly the New York correspondent for the leading Buenos Aires newspaper Clarin, and she has been widely published in the Spanish-language press.

"In this exclusive Green Interview, award-winning journalist Marina Aizen discusses the Mendoza Case: an inspiring public interest litigation process in which the Supreme Court ordered the authorities to clean up the Matanza-Riachuelo river basin, one of the most contaminated places on earth. She describes the evolution of the case, the 500-year history of the river's contamination and how litigation and enforcement has led to important changes for both the river and the people who live near it.

"MATANZA-RIACHUELO RIVER: The Matanza-Riachuelo River flows for 64 km from the District of La Matanza to the shores of La Boca, a barrio and well-known tourist destination in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. The Riachuelo was once identified as the eighth most polluted spot on the planet - nothing short of an environmental and social catastrophe - as a result of centuries of dumping of industrial waste and sewage. In this exclusive Green Interview, Argentinian journalist Marina Aizen discusses the history of the river and its contamination, its connection to the people who live in the river basin, and how the inhabitants of the river basin have come together to reclaim and restore what she calls "a mirror of the territory."

"THE MENDOZA CASE: In July 2004 a group of residents living in "Villa Inflamble," one of the worst-polluted shanty towns in the Matanza-Riachuelo river basin in the province of Buenos Aires, filed a lawsuit against the Argentinian government, the city of Buenos Aires, and 44 businesses for damages to their health suffered as a result of the pollution of the river. Argentinian journalist Marina Aizen discusses this remarkable case, and how the people, industry, and all levels of government are now working together to prevent and repair centuries of environmental damage to the watershed."

Related material:

For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607638, 607639, 607640.

For another interview on the Mendoza case, see: Sallabeny, Daniel. The Mendoza case and the rights of the poor (Mikan no. 5858777).

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Sound recordings : electronic

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