tv [untitled] October 29, 2012 9:30am-10:00am EDT
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i'm father marco antonio i don't know as i got out. seeing i was born in ca marco lit when you talk to me one thousand nine hundred two i know your birth date me that i lived most of my life in the universities and i was taught to learn from cement schoolrooms about around the nature you know up in there with a lot of his him into us in the market and going to london to go to. little bitty racial scene. when i was first again as a priest on literacy and the privilege of living in public on. one of parents' poorest communities it's all of us who. are living. in university they don't teach you if that's the earth has eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if
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you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your 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 going to angola this money. we. really believe you know discovered circulation some number of years ago. it's a it's a good deposit we for he's been low cost before and want to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the in the price of gold.
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if. that's what. the farmers knock the only road to the mine to keep the company from exploring mt keeley's. yannick south america's largest gold mine is paralyzed. new number zero may go in the farmer's trade unions and university students asked me to mediate interviews where you'll be able to get the government finally had to accept me as a mediator but the company always refused to let me mediate that you would only get . if you provoke them.
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if you act like a hot shot the ailing silly things. and 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 they're dead forever but who will remember the poor. i'm asking you you know it's better to fight than to be contaminated no no no no no no no no please forget that slogan friend you think i agree with you but it seems like you're saying kill me. we want to live or if anyone he wants to die there's a cemetery out back i'll help you dig the hole and give the mass going 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
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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 got up and i didn't participate in the protest 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 and . noise 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 offices now you know i'm going outside to see what i can do to get with him out of it yeah thanks general good bye they are going to stop outside now i'm going outside. and there will be. they threw me in i already spoke to the minister. for weights
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listen to me listen to me i know i saw the police and from here 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 other way listen to me in the final they started this with your i saw you don't need to explain i just told the minister to stop the police when you know because there is some of the people 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 and for me. i look at it as a. father
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what's happening in my ticket evil with good being fight injustice with justice and not more injustice with these violence is not force with more violence but with peace. easier to lower those who don't understand this a looking for trouble scandal fairly that's bjoerling. unified beg of you i ask you in god's name strive for peace. bass defend our rights you see in this we're not all the nice 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
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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. 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 throughout. today america is once again the stage for
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a battle over gold. let . me give an innocent but with common ordinary people and we're just defending our water that it was or that we did it that we're not. equal we ask of the government another way is that they leave us in peace. so let me at the don't touch the water we need found crops and animals business deals but at the government is because this is our livelihood.
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culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money maintaining it is a charade a lot of people out here ian how much of a union is it growing separatist movements in europe challenge many conventional wisdom about globalisation the nature of state sovereignty. do we speak your language anything about the will or not a day of. school music programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angola's kidneys stories. you hear. say that troy i'll teach spanish to find out more visit i don't.
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live i think. the blockade is in its second week and every day more people join us john. callahan america declares a general strike against the mind. as we started developing the american company newmont is the majority shareholder viana coach of mine. with new mont is losing millions of dollars because of the blockade. and korea's government is under pressure to end the conflict. in order to commit them a war 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
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extremely important to us really and in some ways over the growth of 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 different way you look at it 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're telling the government and yanacocha not to touch mt kill ish. finally an agreement is reached the government will revoke piano coaches permission to explore mt kill each 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
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blockade of the militia the more you beat the most i pulls. i mean 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 quickly that are all that i. have a day. now keely she is safe at least for the moment. father matco is revered as a national hero. but not everyone is in nam or with the farmers. local media attacks mark out and his activist organization graffiti death and the struggle of the bout began.
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he attends the mine shareholder meeting in colorado. and tells and basters and the american press about the conflicts at yanacocha. then he's invited to canada and speaks in front of ontario's parliament and 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 d.m. people's struggle to defend their land and water continues. in two thousand and six yanacocha shut down by another blockade america was called in to mediate but this time a farmer is killed by police. you're
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not on your mind. they called my sister and my niece answered we got on we saw it in. they knew she was an adolescent and they said we'll tell your uncle to stop interfering with mining issues that we know because we're going to put two bullets in his head covers but they waited until my niece was confused and hung up the phone. you know because i want to look at your studio and i said they wanted to hear my niece cry live from my. little i don't understand their perverse logic to threaten my sister or my niece. do you have the nurse up with you . on your mind or we saw you know.
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come on. what about the. father marco isn't the only one receiving brad's. narrative asco this is a lawyer who helps marco and the farmer's. daughter i know that now that we know. that i was alone in a hotel room man and the phone ran in the middle of the night and in my case and believe it when i saw it it was a number from a public telephone income aka. is
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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 either. 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 to call in. the union on the bridge. and he probably wanted to keep telling me how i was going to die.
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moments also with that we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning so i was in the middest of us alone. so most of them but that they followed us to our homes just a lot of. families told us they were taking photos of the homes they just wanted to get on for the if you're going to be and work places you can get off. this highway goes to the village of pub young. people are sent to present. their barrio with a building a school the. other road goes to the non feed issued.
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filament belief you see but give a little it was a difficult time will you give a yes answer just suddenly you felt you had to be careful with everyone you know but he and even with this tree twenty years i think if someone approached you with a cellphone or with a photo or a feeder camera video not them and you felt hostile towards them. or suspected that they were following you was a speech advocates upis on the style of the he. is a good enough that i left the office and i saw a motorcycle pass and turned around wondering who's that say he. was a kid outrageous yes. yes yes yes and then it doesn't suddenly if your heart begins to pound when it's all so you say be calm one though. thank you i better get out of here it will be fine. if.
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he started singing i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me you get the bus i said what are you doing where are filming me. and doesn't say that's when i called lucho to help me you know. he went that way she said. why are you following my wife i said it's a female body i'm going to use force and. even the man said nervously no i'm not filming anyone i don't even have a camera we were going up by the same police car period. anyways to say you know officer this man is following my wife and filming or i said. theme and.
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