his foundry had poisoned the small town of herculaneum misery. 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 of peru 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 you smell lead and you see the vegetation begins to thin out. and 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 this smoke stack is. emitting 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 there will be plenty of. people. if you're going to be. he said. those noisy.

when the peruvian states foundry dover in peru to the ranko 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. and 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's talk of st louis that another equally polluting dove run plant was located in herculaneum missouri. this foundry also belong to franco. the pastor decided to go there with peruvian archbishop federal grant. links are formed between the peruvian and american communities. pastor eleanor stock had organized a meeting she invited some environmental health specialists from st louis university fred mandelson trial and 2 representatives from the lawyer community. we had. conversation had 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. the folks allowed or you would say that's the same situation we're facing the same situation in our city . and the stories are the same same things that were happening same relationship for the company same kind of intimidation and threats same kind of denying that there was an issue the same health issues in both places. the mobilization began to bear fruit. in 2005 researchers from the university of st louis led by professor fernando serrano went to peru to do the 1st blood tests on the people love love i have.

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a look at me. and you know if you go see your it is hell. and while you're in. what do your get even look at it was in a movie to see not. that i can do yet. who's not there. phyllis i will not see a lot of she turned. to. you through the. 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.

to company. called. there are a lot and there were a lot of mostly by the would go to. an old soul because of the old. you will parade to 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.

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i'll see you then. thinking of getting a new phone the ones we've gotten here shows no problem why is he didn't know. he was traveling this time you know why are we going to near the crate with him he will start reaching out and she won't let us bring him anywhere near and thousands of breeding dogs of caged in the in human conditions on the phone i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the founder nothing they have no protection. but you know you . wrote. it's 2 kids. across the u.s. crude puppy mills are supported by dog shows and stores most of the puppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold

in stores even joined by good businesses are involved like cargill and mom center there has been a shocking amount of the organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding facilities most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with dogs don't buy dog. the conclusions of the study are irrevocable the foundry is poisoning the citizens for reuben the health of his eldest son one is particularly worrying. over here brooke that there would be sure this except doesn't look. it would look to. see the go to the. new we already know this. is the one thief is

a false looser 1st they were 1st told the new one can hope we don't know. with either of all of you you're annoyed. with. 97 percent of the children had loads of halls. or some as high as $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be crucial children in such positions in the us from the hospitalized here in the us. there are some significant cognitive disability there's some significant motor skill coordination issues children a lot of would be losing between $1.00 and $3.00 i.q. points for every. year that they lived in the city. that i've been.

meaning to. get out is it will be a moped why not if you like you got a lane but it's not going around. me until in order must be unpalatable kind of. thing but he says in the early. for us you want to give noise that wish to hold us only so we're not going to get a little very useful eager to get in more says the u.s. eagerly malky yes here any employee really is that if you need here is that you know we're going. in 2009 because of the lack of investment by ranko in environmental standards at the site and due to health issues the state ordered its closure just what iran it was hoping for. isn't indirect

expropriation the domain of international arbitration. iran which attacked the peruvian state and the trial took place in washington without the people of. that being the case please let us invite mr hamilton to begin his oral submissions thank you. for so enough to release. their record source medical or c course. that. callie's us costs us yglesias. yours by the race marjorie's or impress us you thought about how glorious. your economic. as well as you do you'll. see 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 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 this clause the state investor clause which allow companies corporations to sue the local community is government groups states nations if they feel that their profits are being undermined in any 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 the 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 love the regional archbishop. obtained a public hearing at the foreign affairs committee of the us congress. the 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. noisily akiko needed a political. they can equal exploded then black eagle as you then either load or yes eco mad at it but. after hope you know that i mean. i mean us have them what they. have not yet. but that is but i have this.

legal. d.n.a. that this much at this is a man that unless that 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 to the peruvian free trade agreement is there a similar week this with regards to environmental standards and are we doing our part as a government to push on that an 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. from state court to federal court they'd go 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 renta 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 of every songs but sure wrinkle can again wreak labor receive the proof you have government so that is why we do need. a lot of careful to avoid. the risk of the regular gigs we the brew we have will 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 lower roya have

received nothing and continued to breathe polluted air. my greatest hope is that people get to clean the united states will recognize the cost of a wax legal system that allows corporate polluters to. literally get away with murder. at some point 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 contribute towards children in a comedian. 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 lobbyists of multinationals. to defend the freedom of states to legislate. to preserve health and the environment all over the world. and to defend the interests of the people rather than the major private corporate interests. yes.

during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were employed. there 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 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles

according to know on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. selling becomes a passer mechanism right so they buy back their own stock with cheap money from the fed and it goes through the company as. sensibly to help the company but it's not it's it's disenfranchising the company and then on the other side the executives fear of getting that money from the fed directly into their pocket they use the company as a pastor mechanism so what happens is it leads to incredible malinvestment so boeing now is no longer

a viable company. seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any belief yet to shape out this day become agitated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. my uncle with the kids in complete saying go boy you deny it nobody. even approved of it because. it's not. going to.

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