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we need. this is the furthest western. in relation to eastern coast of puerto rico. and the act is continuous with a very. southern coast based. on the claims of a very high. this is the eastern end of the island which is where all the bombs. drop.

the navy used. these eight thousand acres. and the. fish and wildlife and from here on. this is the home of the sandwich which was the civilian sector and this is the area. and from there. when the winds blow in this direction. any contamination that is produced on a kind of bombs depleted uranium and so on and so forth that are used in the target area they carry it. population area. for the last sixty years we have been breathing. and the reason why we

have. over a twenty percent higher cancer rate than the rest of the island of puerto rico but look at this beautiful. miles. of clear waters white. an example for the rest of it. really. is worth every little bit of trouble. to get him back. there. this. is not convenient for a small community in one thousand be believed on the name the legend he now is

center presley. and then all the communities like ok now australia and then people that go on the internet is dizzy how we do know how are they how we fight would you do the same. thing. on this. site on this song. and the navy gets a win a million dollars a year for renting their fire range in the eastern end of the island of yet. they still remain in that area to all nato nations all allies chrome environment and the

people of yes the government of that does not get a sense out of those ninety eight million dollars. so it's very hard to let go they do tend to spoil when no one in town has diabetes our civil disobedience represented that diabetes because everything that we need to run their maneuvers i mean they do see money. the act is a small island off the eastern coast of puerto rico in the caribbean sea the spanish crown claimed the island in fourteen ninety three following columbus a second voyage to the america in one thousand nine hundred eight the u.s. evicted spain from the caribbean following the spanish-american war. and with it be a case became a military possession of the united states. for years the u.s. was pressured to ground point to take away their statehood or independence but

refused the offer either instead commonwealth emerged as a compromise allowing some local autonomy but the u.s. retain control over defense transportation immigration communication and foreign trade. american citizens they can be drafted they cannot vote for president today when because the only former spanish colony in the americas that never gained independence and be a case has remained upon in the complicated relationship between the united states and puerto rico. i was born in puerto rico the thirtieth of december night in forty six. i moved to be at the age of three months old i went to school here i grew up in this house i graduated high school late in sixty four the years of

nineteen sixty five i married my first wife and when she became pregnant i had to stop my studies and go to new york so that she could be sure. i arrived in new york on february ninth being nine hundred sixty six i found myself with four different jobs factories which i didn't care for i would quit so i tour and i joined the army. when i got to i worked in the communications center for six days and i was going crazy over one hundred teletypes going to the same time and the only way to get out of there was volunteered to go infantry so i did i was a completely dedicated soldier i got even bronze stars for service a war i carried seventy two missions disappointment. i was an expert

reading maps in kompas i lead the group into the jungle. i could find my way around the tropical jungle zus zeigler oh not here. i am learning english i'm also learning part of the culture. so i am becoming influenced by the youth movement. then i realized that we had no business being there. after that i lost. my whole tour went for six years then i came out of the on the g.i. bill to be called a commercial artist. i consider it one of my my ways of contributing to the struggle is a means of communications has been a means of communications throughout the history of the world from the case. to

present time once it is finished people will see it and the words that are printed remain printed we cannot be carried away by the wind like spoken words and if it helps my island. and i think is in my contribution to the struggle because i have hardly paint anything else. than the struggle of you since i can remember he's nine hundred eighty one. basically all i paint body is and he struggles. and. in one thousand forty one as german forces found across here at the united states declared a national emergency and expropriated twenty one thousand acres in. the intention

was to create a naval base big enough to accommodate the entire british navy should germany defeat england. even those who are opposed to the us presence and. were reluctant to criticize expropriations that were done in the name of defeating fascism. after the war the us navy decided that it would be used instead as a target area and training site and seize another four thousand acres on the island . on the western and the navy built hundreds of bunkers to store the weapons on the eastern and they created a target zone to detonate that for almost sixty years the citizens are being left wedged and only twenty three percent of the island sandwiched between a weapon steeple and a bombing south. i want all of this whenever i have a chance when someone brings me here so that i may reminisce about how things were

it's not easy. in this area here more or less is where our house used to be. the navy had a can see who was there. delivering the terrible messages. and he said to my mom look three that was my mother's nickname i come to give you the message that you have to move from this area because the navy has bought it and my mother who never went to school not a professor stood the she was born in this area and was raised there because she said to him look this is mine this is my house i have lived here all my life she didn't leave because she thought it was unheard of and we stayed the next day the bulldozers arrived to knock down the house. on the

muscle and my mother only had time to run into the house in grab a bed sheet book and i don't know because we were not rich we were poor and humble people but it was our. pick up some john is it some pots tied to bed sheets by the four corners and run to the street to watch the machine knocking down the house. and police at first i thought it was a big toy four years old totally innocent but only one but my mother when i looked at her face she was crying. i invaded his fear i came in the marine one hundred fifty for the one we stalled the beach. we play.

we did the full maureen corps storming of the beaches and be acres in training for what we would have to bill and gloria. i put in the. her ear and foxholes. got this charged and came back to take a look here also the us a message is the same family. as there were we had four people in who didn't come back. i was one of the intentions but i didn't really want to see what reactors look like with. the name of the. three or as soon as i was able to come back. i've had them be akers now for since the early sixties way first.

the reality of the situation there's a few acres is politically one of the seventy eight municipalities of puerto rico but in real life it's a world apart. and historically has been used as the bargaining chip between the powers washings and won by with. washington gets the bases sour wine gets the bark and the. navy has not contributed in any in order way to. really know. ground troop inspections or. navy never had more than a person out on the whole i am. became

kind of like. for weaponry you know try a french exercise and as a british. they were advertising they used by any allies already qualified certified inventor try anything here. a second to a good doing is advertised. as to their shooting gallery and v.a. for any size you and i. may wonder if a fleet of the. world as wide as inventory of venture and non conventional weapons. figures has no traffic jams there are no chimneys there are no plastic factories on

the hills dumping stuff and so the old mill stream. there's nothing between us from the coast of africa. three thousand miles of open ocean and one bombing right. meanwhile where are. all these heavy metal oracles which you're identified as the explosive residue. i played soldiers or. i had no idea of heavy metals on p.c. be. the continue to fight for them so forth. we're talking about a silent invisible killers in the air that i get angry i get angry and a very has poisoned me. always on my wife or even my children poisoned my grandchildren my neighbors and so forth.

rebbe. my name is me and i am leader not a guy. i've been living in vehicles for thirty seven years. i moved here with my husband charley to drop out and because it was the perfect place for what we wanted which was to live off the land while the sea trolley was fishing. and raise a family by the sea it was an idol come true. i found out i had. at a time in my life when i was feeling so wonderful i felt great now. very active and. commentary from many friends wow great glow

really glowing wonderful. but i had been having some symptoms so i went to the doctor. it was on a. monday the next week i was in hospital. but it was an unforgettable day for me because we had a town assembly that day and we were paying homage to. former community members who died from cancer. and i almost laughed as i was sitting there waiting to get up because i'm thinking you know. we're fighting you here is big statistics and now i have become one of the statistics. and then well and good to make the navy pay for this. we did

heavy metals testing everybody in our family doug read the little babies all three generations every single person that was tested in this family for heavy metals is contaminated at toxic levels. been through neutering cancer extraction of my reproductive organs radiation treatments etc. i mean you never know is it going to come back is it going to spread is it going to do this out of the other you have to take it day by day we're time doing and i feel great. and if it comes back i feel that i've got a hell of a lot more knowledge right now as to how to keep myself feeling good. what i must deal with right now is a health situation and there's community where the raiders pants are there's twenty

seven percent higher than the rest of puerto rico and growing. if you do get cancer you have fifty percent more probability of dying here than in for daughtry. kids between the age of eleven and nineteen have more than a fifty percent chance of contracting cancer and their peers in puerto rico that time except. we have undergone a process where we are now away we are now alert and we are ready you know are to get out there and be advocates for ourselves. the first time i came to the it this was in ninety. i wanted to go back to puerto

rico i used to live in new york for thirty years with my children some my wife and i decided to go. with my friend. telling me well and to come to vegas you know this is like a plot i see you come by a piece of land build a house i say i would i would go over there and. have a look and see if i like it so i came and i like it. when i was in the yard i didn't know a thing about the problem of because all that my friend used me knowing big is we got the navy but don't worry if you come to vegas to them we don't have nothing to do with the navy that's something that is over there that's business we didn't pay attention to that. makes me change my mind was the case of my friend the one who mean to come into a vehicle. he used to eat. shellfish. and this

shellfish was picked up by his father in though it was a fisherman. used to collect these fish from the naria and the packed so on. he got sick. two years later he died in the center many cohens on one. couple of months before he died they did the hay stool and blood test for heavy metals and he came out point six single point twelve of you running. you can mount point six zero lead. and arsenic and lead america. and the doctor said that this is impossible the human being cannot hold all these gun timing nation in his body so they did it twice and then he came out again the saying. that he'd die in the house beat that on scenes he's very ill

the day of his burial i was in the cemetery when these golfing when down the hall. i. joined the. navy will leave. it to. when my friend i one month we bury him coming to the meeting showing people how. how we do see even disobedience while hopping when they come to us so i fall in love with this stall. for all the things that i see the my life i work in this because for almost eight years when i was like seventeen years old. and i was a commercial artist and i did so many things in my life so i said the most

interesting part of my life is getting involved with this people in this struggle because this is a really hostile deal with life with people so i fall in love with this. and here i you know. this is. the roof the whole thing about this struggle is that different people do different things and different people contribute to the struggle in different ways my in my part is i both human the struggle on the comedy. i don't do it for profit i work for nothing and this is something that i love to do i give all of my time in this and many other people do the same thing you know the artist who they're your old painting the friend people contribute in different ways that's why our goals are going to be accomplished to stop the bomb being in the navy out. of. the navy i came to the

gas in one thousand nine hundred one to work i came here to work and stayed for eleven years already i got married to have a stone house so it looks like i'll be here for a while in the accounts. i have a lot of pressure on me from my parents mine along sometimes they've said if you're irresponsible if you don't take care of your child you spend all your time on the streets if the land is going to leave. but we believe that when we strengthen women we strengthen the family. family the women's alliance will be a really strong the concerns of legislative a colleague and a friend who works with schools at a time when you didn't presence of the military. so it up yes we knew about the moment yes there were going to zation so working on the issue of the military

presence and much to our surprise there were very few women participating. in the bible i invited gladys to my house and i said look. i'm so upset so we decided let's announce in return of the women a few cans and see what happens. who was surprised because we were all professional women housewives different political ideologies and religions. because in reality we had our differences other than our views regarding the military presence that nevertheless it was the issue that was able to bring us together.