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more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today. british. holds. for the. first. face to face with.
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children. in israel.
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to stay away. in warsaw as awaiting a court's decision on his extradition moscow has requested that off meds like he said to russia to send to face a number of charges. and world war two relics in the baltic sea still pose a threat with around one hundred fifty thousand munitions spread across the sea. for more on these stories and a whole lot more you can always check out our website r.t. dot com time now for our report on one caribbean island that's struggling with the presence of a u.s. naval base the a case worth every bit of struggle coming your way next. i
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. because. terry exercises. and had a meeting with. who was in charge of. and i explained to him look. what's going to happen to the fishermen. when there's a forty percent unemployment rate. doesn't work when you knock at the door.
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doesn't have a food stamp office i have to tell you in english what he said because that's how he said to me well you can go to the. exercises and i said for the first time. i met with a fisherman. be able to fish for twenty. one of these.
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two. fold. when the struggle began i was a boy we were called crazy they would say look at those crazy dreamers we felt rejected by the people of. some of them would say you're crazy how are you going to
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take us. and we just kept at it and kept going but some changes began in the struggle to get the navy out from the street fighting to political fighting. a very neighborhood when my mother was still alive one sunday we felt the rumble of five bombs exploding i threw myself to the ground and yelled my god they're bombing us. this is an accident that could have killed after that and also. fell in the garbage dump during a lunch between the legs of the workers another incident or accident or error so we had been alerting people. about the chance of an accidental killing a civilian. all that happened was foreseen like the book by god.
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we had already created a climate of danger and uncertainty. the only thing that was missing occurred when david was killed. given that we can't do something bad would happen what else could we expect we said a bomb would kill someone said and done. when we went to camp garcia in the. people well there are two or you look none of us are in a position to this one just got here. about the need to handle things in iran and i think we'll have to wait even the captain at least from our police department will arrive soon and you can ask him all your question. we went to camp garcia and there was a friend. demanding that we be given information that we and the families had to
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know what happened to our brothers. there's no wife here there are children here there are brothers and mama's here there's a father trying to get information and the first thing a mother is told is we can't give you information well the hell with that. one man died and five others also civilians were injured they were taken to the naval base on the mainland that's all we know who gave us names are they injured mcguinness and the dead man is a mckenna's. yes kensit. for years a small group of activists have protested the bombings and the navy's experiments with no weapon systems on the a case but on april nineteenth one thousand nine hundred nine that made sinusoidal the biggest a civilian security guard on the base was killed when a u.s.
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marine fighter aircraft missed his target by more than a mile and dropped to five hundred pound bombs on his post. his death ignited the simmering anger of islanders who had been subjected to years of nerve rattling blast and alarming contamination. was. cross was taken on a boat all the way by sea to the impact area in homage to that he made from his community and placed in the top of a tank target.
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the tour but i'm not sure what i could cut. and the remembrance services began it will run much greater than all of a sudden. you know nobody about you. before the war the amazing. ali would be always richer but given that it was as are obvious that i am staying here we can't leave these cross on earth would i roast. until somebody replaces the feel owed up thing and add mel david we will be like let the navy take us let them take us but this is ours you know if we unite how many people can they put in jail and let them fill the jails with our prisoners like that you don't give it a second thought even if you've been arrested already we have to continue don't do
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it for yourselves do it for your children do it for this man do it for your cats but i don't know yet. where the first day they swarmed all the cattle. as want the droid there to cheer him up and then became. a food delivery service for the fisherman got into it. and the rest is history. here and bill presented for that idea we transformed everything he mumbled up and gave the movement might we create
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a new community. as volunteers get their writing and more more organization we got it well we got a pretty confidence that since there was no reaction from them they. really what i think app on the way that maybe screwed up very badly you could have cleared out the whole thing on day one with what's already in renal cell. but they didn't do it they did not react. it gave the civilians are opposites only they're bringing in technicians scientists experts and do some testing that the navy would know i will while so the longer we stayed there the more scientific reports were coming out which really made the position worse and raise our awareness will the fact that this is really a matter of survival. people
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could go in there and study the land study what the contamination in particular is you know what kind of heavy metals what's been being used out there and then put some real pressure on the navy what kind of bombs what's happening why are we all getting sick. despite persistent protests the united states insisted and because it was critical to national defense and was determined to keep the training and testing alive i may fourth two thousand u.s. authorities arrested and jailed hundreds of protesters many of whom had occupied the target area for over a year but by may thirteenth the protesters were back attempting to use their bodies as human shields to continue to disrupt military exercises during the next four years more than fifteen hundred people would be arrested and jailed for trespassing some serving up to one year in federal prison.
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off. i was drafted to be a guy for the civil disobedience be good friends of mine to be done to the good we need rescuing development vehicles move my experiences appointment in vietnam and me being from nigeria you would know the terrain so why you are writing is where you are and you know. in april twenty eighth year two thousand and one i served as a guide to fourteen members and i took him i was guiding them to the firing range to stop their maneuvers and we were arrested after being in there for about sixteen
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hours. and then i was sentenced to ninety days in jail and five and i'll fight. the reactors for outsiders at the press all around the world everywhere so the reason they blazes right older now are the marshall islands european countries south american countries who look to v.a. crews as the place that really knows our organize whereas we thought it was pretty much had lived all the way they see it as a successful erection for us. last year all their security our bridges course there are eleven million dollars us griner raising the rent was sometimes i was to get rid of our lives are able to. buy. biggest began less important as it got more its friends and they got more expensive
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not only in dollars and cents or on the most paper like headlines on the radio station let the reader will the world it will quite pull. i think the essence of the struggle of a people in a vehicle is to rid themselves of being you used to being abused being kept in the dark to get rid of that was such a liberating kind of thing and it was all down peacefully. and how a tiny little island could face a force as powerful as we did was intriguing by man only intriguing was really inspirational to a lot of people. our particular kind of struggle made it possible for us to to grow to express ourselves and and to
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succeed. i was there i was. after four years of relentless protest of civil disobedience the united states announcing respond all bombing and levy a case on may first two thousand and three however most of the land was not returned to kentucky the instead it was turned over to the u.s. fish and wildlife service thank you he was i was destined to when we arrived at the encampment at midnight there was a lot of energy that the weather and when the clock struck twelve zero one an hour
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at that i couldn't hold back the tedious and emotions that meant denilson and when the gates opened and the people began and trained i well that was a really touching moment i. really. enjoy it i when i feel great satisfaction that i'm glad that the sec or finds that we made over the last four years was not in vain and that the navy is no longer in if you can escape we achieved a motor is ation what allison it to return all of our land which now is still in the custody of the federal forces so the struggle continues and it's a big one. on the east and worth years the question of the bait this time around to make it a wildlife refuge and according to that school of thought if it's only for bases and critters it doesn't ask to be as clean as if it were for
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a full. and they're advertising the. largest wildlife refuge in the caribbean. i can. ship in san juans and. wildlife. danger explosives. scroll across. barricades and if you want to orlando and there was no making. a real complaint from somebody this large is. total fraud. we struggled for sixty years and we always talk about the four d's. nation devolution of the land development. of those four days we managed only one that we were able to close the firing range. but they're not giving the land.
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nothing now. has it been decontaminated know nothing if they don't give back the land if they don't decontaminated how are we going to develop it. it can't be denied we're going to enter a critical period. from the previous phase when you could feel the airplanes you could feel the impacts felt your house vibrate it was irritating it was infuriating but now we're not going to feel the bombs we won't hear them we won't see them we won't feel the house vibrating. but the pollution is there the tag is in those contaminants. mixed in with the earth. but you
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can't see it because we have to do a study to identify it. the effects of military as they are so deleterious are so negative. once you stop the bombing. you've got to clean up. and it's not just clean up an environment you've got sick people you have to help the people. we are this i am working on the health issue as taken me to participate in a health commission on my role on this commission has been to try to to try to keep things on track. and to try to create for people in the agencies a living reality you know we are not dots on a graph we are people who live on the side there's
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a responsibility to bring her children into your little world and showed it will want. to do with us this is a big risk. but it's almost the exact need to make things better. i have this moment fortunately i find that the government of puerto rico is truly bending backwards to relieve the federal government of blame for the health situation and i don't understand it and it hurts as a member of a community that is suffering from such poor health. statistically i mean it's not it's not my emotional feeling it's an actual fact you know that we have to still keep begging for attention and
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services which i feel the government should have looked on as a perfect opportunity to fulfill its job in defense of the health of its people but. thank you so much for being here this evening. in this little story only. to our friends. who are a part of the or even. most of that really understands that this is a new friend and new process in via cast struggle i don't go there be against women's alliance a place yet and wanted to work with the girls on how they see themselves participate here in the community how can they as human leadership over what is happening in india i can't say. we started this exercise three or four days ago to find out how people dream about cans because the post office
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crew going to the beach having their pajama party imitating gloria trevi and jennifer lopez and all that isn't bad but if you you are the ones who have to step up and be the heroes you know jennifer lopez is not common to do the work it will be to me time ok and you need to has to be trained to do that work. when you out what i want to prove you can this is more schools and university. if i went to university i would started to be a doctor. it was a dream for the a cast is that there would be just peace and no violence. and
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that there would be less pregnancies less contamination of course and that they build a cinema and. activities for the youth small tourism for the construction of the bridge from viet caste to not wobble and small ferries.
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sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched the street fight. if i am from the colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. come the. sergeant of the u.s. army. trying to become an american by getting part in the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey.
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our stop we are going to. put it back on track. we'll have a rally we'll sell lots of beer will ron ron say will wear uniforms that will damage is in the black and them everything but very little damming the white. and they are the key to our problems are all right.

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