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is sacred land killing. the waters from kalish naresh come out of. this if they destroy kill us that won't be water. will die without water our ancestors want us about this.

i'm father marco antonio i don't know as i got out. seeing i was born and come home marco a little when you talked over a one thousand nine hundred two number your brother had me do you know i lived most of my life in the universities even i was taught to learn from cement school rooms but i'd rather the nature you know up in there that i love is him into us you know market and don't get on at least. you know a little bit relational saying. when i was first again as a priest on literacy and i had the privilege of living in park on. one of peru's poorest communities pulled it out of your city. if you're living.

in university they don't teach you that the earth has eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your earth cries we set out to convert the poor of us with them and we ended up being converted the farmers have worshiped the mountains for centuries the mountains provide water and water is life. but newcomers have arrived from a different world for them mountains are gone and gold this money. we. really believe you know discovered circulation some number of years ago.

it's true it's a good deposit we've always been here both before and even to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the in the price of gold. increases to go on. increases our cash flow by about fifty million dollars increases our earnings by about thirty million dollars. the miners have already destroyed several mountains their next project is mt keeley's but the farmers to stop them.

think that if. that's what. the farmers flock the only road to the mine to keep the company from exploring mt keenly. yannick south america's largest gold mine is paralyzed. new number of the farmers trade unions and university students asked me to mediate and that is where you'll be able with the government finally had to accept me as the mediator but the company always refused to let me mediate with them again.

if you provoke them. if you act like a hot shot the ailing silly things. then instead of reaching the solution there will be a bloodbath. and you've got some of them will die but more poor people will die and they'll remember their dead forever but who will remember the poor so i'm asking you now it's better to fight than to be contaminated no no no no no no no please forget that slogan friend i agree with you but it seems like you're saying kill me. we want to live or if anyone here wants to die there's a cemetery out back when we all help you dig the hole and give them us we want to live right this is a struggle for life. yes to live no to gold.

for the first time people living in the nearby city of america join the farmers to defend mount killings was freedom for those under arrest was. here they are these are the ones who will always fight. the. now we have no more fear was was was was the. was.

in general i just came out of a meeting with the city's councillors. you i saw the protest in the main square and the police harassment going up and i didn't participate in the protest part of the people in meeting is that. i came to get a fax from the minister and saw the police beating people and throwing tear gas. noid give us the i'm going to address the crowd and tell them to remain calm. because you're going to thanks general please restrain your officers now you know

i'm going inside to see what i can do to get with him out of him yeah thanks general good bye they're going to stop outside now i'm going outside north get there or be. they threw me in i already spoke to the minister. the weights listen to me listen to me i know i saw the police on from here like you know the general is giving the order to stop but you need to stop too don't slow any more stones listen to me they provoked us if you're not going to listen to me then negotiate yourselves with. the way listen to me you know kind of they started this with your i saw you don't need to explain i just told the minister to stop the police you know because there is some of the people you know down the alley that he's going to order them to stop but you need to stop throwing stones maybe you know who threw those stones at the police station you know i mean. i don't look at the.

father what's happening in might even with good fight injustice with justice and not more injustice with these the violence is not force with more violence but with peace. e.c.s. the lower those who don't understand this a looking for trouble gandalf i lead as bjoerling. unified beg of you i ask you in god's name strive for peace. defend our rights you see in this we're not organized and united yanacocha is going to eat us one by one be patient you're not going to win this struggle in

a day in the end you're fighting against the world's largest mining company. this same plaza was the setting for one of kamarck us most famous battles the conquest of south america i began here five hundred years ago. a small band of spanish invaders request a meeting with the income ruler to while. the spaniards promised they'd come in peace but it's a trial. and they kidnapped the nka and hold him for ransom. followers still one room with gold and two with silver for his release. but the spaniards execute out a while back and claim his empire of the spanish through. today

because once again the stage for a battle over gold. being a. common ordinary people. just defending our water that it was or that he did it when i. ask of the government is that they leave us in peace.

but they don't touch the water we need for our crops and animals. but at the government is because this is our livelihood. i was five i think. the blockade is in its second week and every day more people join us john. callahan market declares a general strike against the mine. as we started developing the american company newmont is the majority shareholder and i began a coach of mine. with a new mont is losing millions of dollars because of the blockade. and korea's government is under pressure to end the conflict. and. people with more going on that the government makes mistakes and the company has to admit its

pot but we have to fight until they respect our rights. the social license is extremely important to us really and in some ways over the over the legal license to operate you ask them to stop and remove their machines this is our conflict with the. you know in hindsight sure we do a lot of things different you know where we live in a i'm not sure how much to fight with you know is this and these crazies are good you know because we have to admit we're not doing things as well as we thought we. were telling the government and yanacocha not to touch mt killer. on the finally an agreement is reached the government will revoke yannick coaches permission to explore mount kulish in exchange for an end to the blockade.

of the gentleman and all thorazine. on behalf of the population i move that we end the blockade will be able to come into the water you. indeed for most of all i'd be let's view the ceremony to end the blockade not as an end to the struggle but as a ceremony to thank god you are going to have both of you may he send us home safely especially the delegations from far away briefly but overall. i thought ok. now kili she is safe at least for the moment. father mad cow is revered as a national hero. but not everyone is in nam or with the farmers. and with local media attacks marco and his activist organization graffiti days i mean

struggle of the bowtie began.

there marco has troubles at home his reputation as a side peru is growing. he attends the mine shareholder meeting in colorado. and thousand basters and the american press about the conflicts at yanacocha. then he's invited to canada and speaks in front of ontario's parliament. what just like in canada hundreds of farmers in peru and latin america are sent to jail for defending their right to a healthy life. then dmn people's struggle to defend their land and water continues. in two thousand and six yannick coaches shut down by another blockade america was

called in to mediate but this time a farmer is killed by police. you're not on your mind. you they called my sister and my niece answered we got on we saw that in that. they knew she was an adolescent and they said we'll tell your uncle to stop interfering with mining issues that we know that because we're going to put two bullets in his head it's obvious that they waited until my niece was confused and hung up the phone call that i'm going to you know for someone to look at yesterday and i said they wanted to hear my niece cry live from on this. level i don't understand their perverse logic to threaten my sister or my niece. do with your. i'm your mind or me so do you know.

i come up with one word. father marco isn't the only one receiving threats. here to vasco is a lawyer who helps marco and the farmers. get on line but now that that would have. died i was alone in a hotel room man and the phone ran in the middle of the night to get my little case of relief and. when to read i saw it was a number from a public telephone income aka.

is this news the last kiss and i said yes. a man spoke harshly and insulted me for it it's a it's a back. seat she said if i kept making trouble they would rape me even. kill me and cut my body into pieces. and threw them in the garbage for the dogs to eat. i hung up but he kept calling. me a new the bring. me the kids he probably wanted to keep tellin me how i was going to die.

we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning hours and in the rest of us to look at. the service of the conductor they followed us to our homes just a lot of. families told us they were taking photos of the homes when you end up on their own for the if you're going to be and work places and get off. this highway goes to the village of pub young. people are saying to present

a porno they fire you with a building a school the. other road goes to the non seedy. throw in the on the devil went to the mine because we couldn't find him on the road to pub you know. it went in the direction of the minor in our courts and i left him. goodbye.

well i'm into the feces but give a little it was a difficult time. give a yes and you just suddenly felt you had to be careful with everyone you know but he and even with this tree twenty years i think is if someone approached you with a cellphone or with a photo or a feeder camera and you know not them and you felt hostile to all it's them. or suspected that they were following you was a speech advocates upis on the style of a he. has a good of human i left the office and i saw a motorcycle pass and turned around wondering who's that the heater. was a kid of a tissue i. guess it said and them it doesn't suddenly if your heart begins to pound when it's all so you say be calm one though. don't give up i better

get out of here it will be fine. if. you. had to d.c. and the other activists ecru feed it develop a counter espionage plan and begin to spy on the spy. who feed as members took these photos and videos of their pursuers. was.

it he started singing i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me you get the bus so i said what are you doing what are filming me. i. mean to say that's when i called lucho to help me if you will you know. he went that way she said. why are you following my wife i said it's just a figment of him and he's forced on me. even when the man said nervously this is you know i'm not filming anyone i don't even have a camera would we want. a police car period anyways to say you know

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