for the military presence which occupies almost two thirds of the army. and overshadows the people's everyday lives. of all the sound so people. mostly with. the words of struggle on t.v. . the. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched the street fight. colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. the sergeant of the u.s. army. tried 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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called it green. this is the furthest western. is continuous very. southern coast based. on the claims of nature very hard. this is the eastern end of the island. 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 and bombs. depleted uranium so on and so forth that are used in the target area they carry a. population area. which. for the last sixty years we have been reading. and the reason why we have.

but look at these beautiful. miles on and off. white thing. not to be a canon sight an example for the rest of the country to really view. is worth every little bit of struggle. getting back to. their. base. is not convenient for a small community in one thousand be believed on the name of legend he now is said

impressive. and then all the communities like ok now australia and then people that go on the edge of the edges dizzy how we do know how are they how we fight would you do the same. thing. oh this. fight this fight oh this is. life. and the navy gets over ninety eight million dollars a year for renting the fire range in the eastern end of the island of yet. they still ring that area to all nato nations all allies come and bomb you and the

people of yes the government of that does not get a sense of those ninety eight million dollars. so it's very hard to let go they do tend to spoil where no one found has diabetes our civil disobedience represented that diabetes because every time that we interrupt their maneuvers i mean they do see money. b.a. case 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 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 one thousand 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 a specialist i arrived in new york on february 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 to run 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 dollar types 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 out in 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 jungle zas i'm grown up here. i am learning english i'm also learning part of the culture. so i am becoming influenced by the youth movement. then i realised 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 it 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 how do you paint anything else other 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 were 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 train 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. 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 so. i walk all of this whenever i have the chance but 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. 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 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.

i'm a muslim 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 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 it's here i am in the marine nineteen fifty fifty one we stall the beach. we play.

we did the full maureen cool storming of the beaches and b. acres in training for what we would have to build in korea. i put in a full strength in korea over a year and foxholes. got this charged and 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 look like without the navy the hype for or as soon as i was able to come back. i have had. this 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 historical aviate is has been used as the bargaining chip between the pa. washington deals with san juan not with. washington gets the bases now wind gets the bar and really goes against the fat. the navy has not contributed. really no. navy never had more than.

four weaponry you know try french. british. they were advertising they used by any allies already qualified certified inventor try anything you're. doing is advertise. for any. fleet of. worldwide inventory of. conventional weapons. figures has no traffic jam. there are no plastic factories on the.

stuff and so the old. 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 oracles which are identified as explosive residue. i played soldiers there. 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 invisible killers in the air that i get angry i get angry and they poisoned me. poison my wife for them my children pores and my grandchildren my neighbors and so forth.

rebbe. my name is made a leader not a guy. i've been living in vehicles for thirty seven years. i moved here with my husband charlie 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 and at a time in my life when i was feeling so wonderful i so great now. very active and. commentary from many friends wow great you gloat

really glowing wonderful and when i had been having some symptoms. i went to the doctor. it was on a thursday. and a monday the next week i was in hospital. but 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 here is big statistics and now i have become one of the statistics. and then let them make the navy base and there's. 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 trying 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 in 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 the time acceptable. 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 vehicles 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. told me why don't you come to vegas you know this is like a pot i see 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'd like to 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 god my friend used and me knowing big as we got in the navy don't want to come to vegas to them we don't have nothing to do with the navy that's something that is over they out of the business we didn't pay attention to that. what makes me change my mind was the case of my friend the one who took me into coming to vehicles. he used to

eat. shellfish. and these. fish was picked up by his father in law who was a fisherman. used to collect these fish from an area near the sown. he got sick. two years later he died in the central many koans on one. couple of months before he died they did the head stool and blood test 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 the saying. that he had died in the hospital on 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. till i die contaminated to. when my friend i one month we bury him coming to the meetings on showing people how we how we do see disobedience what will happen when they come to our cause so i fall in love with this throw all. for and 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 to be hostile deal with life with people so i fall in love with this. and here i you know what. was there. in the roof evil thing about this struggle is that different people do different things and different people contribute to the struggle in different ways my my part is i don't command the struggle on the comedy. i don't do it for profit i do it for nothing be 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 to their new roles the painting . people contribute in different ways that's why our goals are going to be accomplished to. stop the bombing and because i don't get the radio

. the navvy i came to pass 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 sauna house so it looks like i'll be here for a while and be a can. i have a lot of pressure on me from my parents mind a long sometimes they've said 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 you. but we believe that when we strengthen women we strengthen the family. family the women's alliance over u.k.'s really strong the concerns of lead a city that a college 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 bombs yes they were going to work in on the issue of the military presence and

much to our surprise there were very few women participating. in the by the way i invited gladys to my house and i said look. i'm so upset so we decided let's analysis 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.