these days the western in their lockers see the parliaments are paralyzed all over the place and clean the latest examples australia and almost all the represented backcrosses are including india and japan. so what what's happening to the traditional so-called universal western democracies at the same time that there are other countries struggling for maybe a new a new manifestation of how are you sure that in the end the people right ok i saw we have time here for i want to thank our guest for our discussion here on the politics of recession and thanks to our viewers for watching us here our teeth see you next time and remember across topples.

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broadcasting live from the heart of moscow this is archie's certainly going to have you with us sick look at your headlines now one of russia's most wanted terror suspects has been released after a polish court turned down the prosecutor's request for his forty day arrest. was detained as he arrived in the polish capital warsaw to take part in an international conference on chechnya however is a kind of is still pending a court hearing on whether he can be handed over to russian authorities. afghanistan's president hamid karzai has urged citizens to vote in saturday's parliamentary election and ignore threats from the taliban at least twenty four people have been killed and eighteen abducted in election related attacks across the country the violence has escalated to despite increased police efforts to provide safety. a suspected russian mafia boss is it being treated in a moscow hospital after an attempt on his life nicknamed grandpa

a son he is thought to have fallen victim to a gangland turf war reports say the hitman missed the target with several shots before escaping from a nearby building. now it's time for our special report for almost sixty years the residents of puerto rican island of vieques have endured their home being used as a firing range by the u.s. navy however when a misfired shell killed an islander a harsh new light was shed on the economic and environmental problems endured by the locals.

navy called it green. this is the furthest western. in relation to. the ak is continuous very. southern coast based. claims are very high. this is the eastern end of the island which is where all the bombs. drop. the navy used to. these one thousand.

fish and wildlife. and from here on this is the. sector. this is. the area and from there. when the winds blow in this direction. any contamination that is produced bombs. depleted uranium so on and so forth that are used in the target area they carry a. population area. for the last sixty years we have been breathing. and we have. percent higher cancer rate. but look at these beautiful. miles on and off. white thing.

not a beer can in sight. an example for the rest of the country to really view. is worth every little bit us strong. getting back to. the old. days. is not convenient for a small community in one thousand be believed on the name the legend now a set of precedent. and then all the communities like ok now australia and then people that go on the internet as disease how we do know how or how we fight with the same. thing. all

this. time oh this is going. to send it back. and the navy gets a win a million dollars a year for renting their fire range in the eastern end of the island yet. they still remain in that area through all nato nations all allies come environment and the people of the it is the government of that does not get a sense out of those ninety eight million dollars. so it's very hard to let go and they do tend to spoil when no one in town on diabetes our civil disobedience represents 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 us 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 us was pressured to grant to take away their statehood or independence but refused to offer either instead commonwealth emerged as a compromise allowing some local autonomy but the us 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 a pawn 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 years of night in 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 the very night 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 as a point man. i was an expert reading maps in kompas i lead the group into the jungle i could find my way around the tropical jungles of zion grown up here.

i am learning english i'm also learning part of the culture. so i am becoming influenced by the youth movement. by 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. 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 be cannot be carried away by the wind like spoken the words and if it helps my island. and i think

is in my contribution to the struggle because i hardly paint anything else. than the struggle of you since i can remember these nine hundred eighty one basically all i paint body is any stroebel. 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 and. 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 . and the western and the navy built hundreds of bunkers to store the weapons on the eastern and they created a target zone to detonate them for almost sixty years the citizens of vegas were left wedged and only twenty three percent of the island sandwiched between a weapon steeple and a bombing so. 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 to be a can see who was there. delivering the terrible messages. and he said to my mom

looks trina 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 but who understood that she was born in this area and was raised there because she said look this is mine this is my house i have lived here all my life she did not believe him because she thought it was unheard of and we stayed the next day the bulldozers arrived to knock down the house. i mean a muslim and my mother only had time to run into the house and grab a bed sheet and i don't know because we were not rich we were poor and humble people but it was our. pick up some john isn't 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 and first i thought it was a big toy four years old totally innocent but my mother when i looked at her face she was crying. i invaded daks here i am in the marines nineteen fifty fifty one we stall the beach. we play. we did the full maureen corps storming of the beaches and b. acres in training for what we would have to do and korea.

put in a full stanton career over a year and foxholes. this charge that came back to take a look here also those of us some messages to some family. because 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 looked like without the navy we. throw or as soon as i was able to come back. i've had them be acres now for since the early sixty's way first. the reality of the situation is that as it is politically wine 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 washington want not with. washington gets the bases sour wine gets the bar. the navy has not contributed in any way to. really no. ground troops. navy never had more than a person out on the whole i am. became kind of like. for weaponry you know try french i just as a british. they were advertising they used by any allies already qualified certified inventor try anything you're.

doing is advertised. as to their shooting gallery and be acres for any size you and i. may one ship a fleet of. worldwide inventory of. 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 range. meanwhile where are. all these heavy metal articles which are identified

as explosive residue. i played soldiers. i had no idea of heavy metals and p.c.b. . the continue to fight sort of napalm and so forth. we're talking about a silent thing that is a killers in the air that i get angry i get angry and hazmi has poisoned me. poison my wife for them my children pores and my grandchildren my neighbors and so forth. reba. my name is made 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 that and idle come true. i found out i had. at a time in my life when i was feeling so wonderful. so great now. very active and. commentary from many friends wow great you gloat really glowing was wonderful and that i had been having some symptoms so i went to the doctor. it was on a thursday. and a monday the next week i was and. it was an unforgettable day for me because

we had a town this family that day and we were paying homage to. former community members die from cancer. and i almost laughed as i was sitting there waiting to get up because i'm thinking you know. well we're fighting you here is big statistics and now i had become one of the statistics. and then let me make the navy pay for this. we did heavy metals testing on 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 in this community where the rate of cancer is 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 for three. kids between the age of eleven and nineteen have more than

a fifty percent chance 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 v.a. because it was in then one nine hundred 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 to puerto rico with my friend. telling me why don't you come to v.a. because you know this is like a pot of i.c.u. you can buy

a piece of land then build the house i said 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. my friends than me knowing big as we got the navy don't want to have you come to vegas you don't we don't have nothing to do with the navy that's something that is over they are in the business we didn't pay attention to. what makes me change my mind was the case of my friend the one who mean to come into view because. he used to eat. shellfish. and these. fish was picked up by his father in though it was a fisherman. used to collect these fish from the new area and the not so own. he got sick. two years later he'd die in the central many cohens on one.

couple of months before he died. stool and blow up just for heavy metals and he came out point six single point twelve of you running and. you came on point six zero lead. and arsenic. 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 to saying. that he had died in the hospital and scenes he's very ill the day of his burial i was in the cemetery when these golfing when down the hall. i commit myself i will join the struggle into the navy will leave.

i contaminated to. when my friend i one month we bury him coming to the meetings on showing people how . how we do see the disobedience what will happen when they come to us so i fall in love with this troll. for all the things that i did 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 know. it was there.

in the roof people 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 common man on the. 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 through their new roles the brain being different people contribute in different ways that's why our goals are going to be accomplished to stop the bombing in the navy out of. the navy i came to new york as 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 and be accounts. i have

a lot of pressure on me from my parents mine alone sometimes they've said you're irresponsible if you don't take care of you child you spend all your time on the streets if the land is going to leave you. but we believe that when we strengthen women we strengthen the family. the women's alliance will be a case of really strong the concerns of legislative a college and a friend who works with schools at a time when you didn't hear the presence of the military. so it up yes we knew about the moment yes there were going to working on the issue of the military presence and much to our surprise there were very few women participating in that. i invited gladys to my house and i said look. i'm so upset.