and even if they are colombia or peru or developing countries even if they are mali and what have you the states have the power to get rid of the system if they chose to do so. but do they really want to governments they big business are often complicit. the vattenfall group for example had the chancellor's ear she even appointed its ex e.e.o. lawyers just of thin to be her personal advisor on energy transition. most heads of state are ambivalent. for noon don't consider the fast i am. wrong. i have is your sister there lucky for you cannot be easy to present to produce the items so that they are what style of play such an easy thought i. don't ask. you to shop for but is good is just nice it's real you know i know all

the share. and to walk some going he's told her mom in a duplicate bottom of their i don't know ha phone. he keep them on their. own full so you can see them in cincinnati so where you are. going to actually see prove you are not exist nor was insulted. econo i just stand you know at least at that time scenario. i discern that these institutions have been there so why do you think aussies act off some of those to marked out for complaint from our atia. with conflicts multiplying the power of arbitration tribunals granted and become more threatening. this time 2 populations one in the us and the other in peru. we're the victims of the

same multinational ranko huge. c.e.o. . a wall street financier is one of the world's richest man. his foundry had poisoned the small town of mystery. he is now poisoning another city in peru. the communities come together to defend themselves. back in about 2001 i was taking a bus from one guy you'll up in the central highlands approved down to the coast capital city where my family and i lived. before you get to the city you start to smell the city. you smell lead and you see the vegetation begins to get out. much of the rock is coated with white gravy it almost

looks like calcium deposits. and i got off to stretch my legs we were taking a break there in la jolla for about 10 minutes and there were a couple kids who were walking down the street with their mother they were hacking their lungs out they were coughing really really bad as we went to the side of the smelter smokestack is. tons of pollution what you see is the passive contamination of what's leaking out of the holes of the smelter. there's no filter on that there's no chimney to get it up and out of the valley. who you know you know the. main thing. people.

he. was that guy. he said yeah larry was bossy i was thought out was noisy in groups like the look where they were. when the peruvian state filled in foundry dover in peru to the rank a group in 1997 its condition was no more polluting emissions. the company agreed to meet the new environmental standards but instead of investing in the site i were rendered committed tax evasion and sent the money to $2.00 subsidiaries one in missouri and the other in the cayman islands. the city of la roja which south americans call the chernobyl of the indies is ever more polluted. the presbyterian church became more and more aware of the inner connections between. the us economy and.

emerging economies around the world particularly around the issue of extractive industries and we asked the question what if there was a connection nexus connecting folks in missouri with the folks in peru. hunter feral mission director for the presbyterian church in peru learned from pastor eleanor stark of st louis that another equally polluting dover one plant was located in her killing him missouri. this foundry also belong to franco. the pastor decided to go there with peruvian archbishop federal grant o. . links are formed between the peruvian and american communities. pastor eleanor stark had organized a meeting. she invited some environmental health specialist from st louis

university struggle and 2 representatives from lawyer community. we had a conversation going to be all together and talk for a couple of hours really just sharing experiences around the circle and as each person spoke every testimony that was given from people in her kill any of the folks allowed or you would say that's the same situation we're facing the same situation in our city. and the stories were the same same things that were happening same relationship with the company same kind of intimidation and threats same kind of denying there as an issue the same health issues in both places and. the mobilization began to bear fruit. in 2005. of the university of st louis led by professor fernando savan know when to peru to do the 1st blood

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good as a story. in the all see all the most in either case i need a laugh or it is for. it is that it gets it out when it is a look at. you if you see your think it is hell. and while you're in. what are your kitty look at it was it would be neat to see not . that i counted yet. who's not there. not to see a lot of sheep then. thank. you to. following the blood tests done by us doctors the community is torn apart. leaflets are distributed denouncing the misery vampires. who suck the blood of peruvian children. they threaten with violence

those like rosa morrow who fight to alert the community about heavy metal contamination. rinko then threatened to close the factory. in. cebu there are a lot and there were a lot of mostly by the way. an old soul because of the old. new operating proving government was continually assaulted by the threats of the door run company which said $4000.00 jobs will be gone tomorrow local folks desperately needed for jobs so it became a significant issue and every time there was a threat or the rumor moved through town saying that the company might be closed or the approving government was going to be forcing the closure of the company folks

would hit the streets. or you know. you know. easy as you know it was. and you know yeah. we're going. to do a lot of it only i didn't they never let me just love it if you believe it was out of the basement. when i started. going to you oh yeah look he's been doing this here because they may respond somebody would look a little you know it's a momentous time when he's on the scene you know you're somebody in the same boat who's coming to visit 4 percent. and it does in the lending not used to just look i

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in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. the conclusions of the study are irrevocable the foundry is poisoning the citizens for reuben the health of his eldest son klein is particularly worrying. covering a book that there was this except doesn't look at. roman so it would look to. see the go to said look we're good to think that you. knew we were already nuts dozens of the good earth is too much for so he said the storm of the work that's done the new work in the point of not. little there is all of the new idea knowing. that.

97 percent of the children had levels. some as high as $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be crucial children in such conditions in the us from a hospitalized here in the us. plano. there are some significant cognitive disability there's some significant motor skill coordination issues children a lot would be losing between $1.00 and $3.00 i.q. points for every year that they lived in the city. this was that different that didn't.

seem to do. basic cable says i mean it outweighs it will be a moped one of these you'll get you got claim but he said boy. you'll believe me until in order must i mean by little guy. but he says only the. noise. he immediately delete. in 2009 because of the lack of investment in environmental standards at the site and due to health issues the state ordered its closure just what it was hoping for . isn't indirect expropriation the domain of international arbitration.

attacked the peruvian state and the trial took place in washington without the people. that being the case please invite mr hamilton to begin his oral submissions thank you. for. their record source of course. us process yglesias. us by the race murder race or impress us. economical as. the treaty allows an investor to bring a claim against the state either on the claimants own behalf. for its own injuries for state conduct or it may bring a claim on behalf of an enterprise that it owns and controls for loss or damage that the enterprise has suffered free trade treaties have.

companies corporations to sue. local. government groups states nations if they fail. now that their profits are being undermined in a new way past present or future profits. that means if local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits. they can be sued local folks in peru have real fears a lot of doubts about the arbitration system feeling that it's almost like it's described as a faceless jury no one knows they're not accountable to us we don't know who they are we don't know who got them into those positions of arbitration put the decision making it took it away from local community and people who would live to reap the

consequences of those decisions and put it in the hands of people whom we don't even know. to give a voice to the community of. the regional archbishop. obtained a public hearing at the foreign affairs committee of the us congress. marrow and the st louis researcher fernando serrano were called to testify in july 2012 and we have sound scientific evidence of the grave threat to the people of the environment as is the studies have shown. great concern again is the multiple exposure all of these toxic metals affecting the body and the effects. so a discussion of the economic and legal in other factors related to the relationship between the united states government emperor in different work of the us trade for you agreement i believe i believe we must put an emphasis is we must make

a priority of the hail needs and rights of the people of illinois especially the children and especially the born we had children being born with lead in their bodies and that is something that we can see they're completely unacceptable like you know. if she would sing. noisily akiko needed a political. they can equal exploded then black eagle as you then of i would oh yes eco matter to put out. after hope you know that i mean. iraq i mean that's how low then what. had not yet either but that is but as this. legal. do you know that this much at this is a man that unless they look at $11.00 of my concerns with each of the free trade

agreements going back to nafta with mexico which i did vote against primarily because of workers' rights and because of environmental protections while on paper it looked to be very strong and robust and i'm wondering if the gores to the peruvian free trade agreement is very similar week this with the guards to environmental standards and are we doing our part as a government to push on that important area. who is lawyers over 1000 children from laos filed a lawsuit against iran or in a local court in missouri which had ordered him to compensate the people of herculaneum in 2010. to avoid this lawsuit. attacked peru before the international arbitration tribunals.

probably after filing the notice of intent in december of 2010. ran directly to the court of the united states. in an effort to remove. claims brought by children of. from state court to federal court they'd rinko did that by bringing to the attention of the united states federal court the existence of a treaty dispute that case played out over a period of years and in 2016 the international tribunal found that rent-a oh had failed to comply with that obligation under the treaty to waive local proceedings it's a very specific requirement the interpretation of that requirement was agreed upon

by peru and the united states and the tribunal found that there was a violation of that treaty requirement and the claim and go to the arbitration wrinkle was refused because. every songs but sure wrinkle can again wreak labor receive the proof so that is why we do need. lot of careful to avoid adult the risk of. the provable remain. a symbolic victory for the peruvian state which although not condemned is still required to pay between $4.00 to $8000000.00 of legal costs. and while the people of herculaneum were compensated those of have received nothing and continued to breathe polluted air. my greatest hope is that

people typically in the united states will recognize the cost of a wax legal system that allows corporate polluters to. literally get away with murder. and sell. we've got to recognize the fact that while investors have rights. no one has the right to take away the intelligence of any child and no one has the right to tribute for children in a committee. in europe the well those formidable action has raised awareness. european institutions are starting to act. in march 2018 the european court of justice invalidated a fine of 22000000 euros against slovakia imposed by an arbitration court judging

the sentence incompatible with european law. this could serve as jurisprudence for conflicts within europe. in making this decision the european court of justice seems to want to reaffirm its sovereignty and jurisdiction. the european commission is also preparing a project for a public international and permanent court to replace private arbitration. but we must be realistic multinationals will never relinquish the exorbitant power granted by arbitration tribunals they can count on the world's top lawyers to defend them and remind them of past free trade agreements signed by states.

all the more reason for civil society to remain vigilant and continue to demonstrate and resist so that states don't give in to the lobbies of multinationals. to defend. the freedom of states to legislate. to preserve and the environment over the world. and to defend the interests of the people of other than the major profit corporate interests. us.

during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were employed. other wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other prince holds according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of narrow sector of wealth which will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of

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