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i don't know what style of play stencil is it i'd sit near. home after that bag or start your shop on it but is it just me since you're here i know all of you share. and don't want to suck and he's told her mom in a duplicate bottom of the i don't know ha phone complex mom he keep boss said that some on their. own phone so you can see the minutes half an hour or so while yet. the ones who do that you see prove you are not exist known as insulted 0 most young . leader econo highest stands you know at least at that time soon there. was a decision that these institutions have and there will soon but i don't even think aussies act off some of the names to marked out for complaint from our atia. with conflicts multiplying the power of arbitration tribunals granted and become
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more threatening. this time 2 populations one in the us and the other in peru where the victims of the same multinational ranko a huge polluter. is c.e.o. i rendered a wall street financier is one of the world's richest man. his foundry had poisoned the small town of her killing me a 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 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 stink you smell led you see the vegetation begins to get
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out. and much of the rock is coated with white gravy it almost looks like calcium deposits. and we stopped the bus 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 the 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 the. polio or
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main thing. we don't know and i want to. know if you're going to be sure to say. that. he said yeah larry. was noisy. when the peruvian state filled in foundry dover in peru to the wrinkle 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 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. which south americans call the chernobyl of the indies is. evermore polluted.
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the presbyterian church would became more and more aware of the inner connections between. the u.s. 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 folks in peru. hunter farrel 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 country also belong to franco. the pastor decided to go there with peruvian archbishop federal grant o. . links i formed between the peruvian and american communities.
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pastor eleanor stock had organized a meeting she invited some environmental health specialists from st louis university fred mandel struggle and 2 representatives from the lower your community . we had a conversation at a meal together and talked for a couple of hours really just sharing experiences around the circle and as each person spoke to 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 are the same same things that were happening same relationship with the company same kind of intimidation and threats same kind of denying that there was an issue of same health issues in both places. the mobilization
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began to bear fruit. in 2005. 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 yeah. it was the. journey quintuple any of those means go see. only to the you. can but at the will. there also i think going only was there they would you. say swallow it oh yeah. it was too. little. then they do this without. knocking. and seal. and let the man in also and then to say going through all.
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these. guys we had a cynical medical you. and at an angle. keep a low profile that. knows i think that. levy didn't even know it as. a drug dealer's. trip that. night out. as you go in there. and i think i mean. yes you know more a multivalued went off to think about that what i thought is not that well do you have let him know ready to go and i mean this you know. if you had an elegant i mean this year. in any will they decide they're going to.
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i said was that. this you know. there is a risk. then i'll let it get as good as a story that will. enable us you know the most in either case i need a laugh witness or. a guest that now going to. look at me. and you know if you go 0 it is hell. and while you're in the last what are your good evil and it was in a movie. that i can do yet. they had. not i see a lot of. truth . following the blood tests done by u.s.
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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. up in the. cold. there are a lot and there were a lot of for a short mostly by the workers. and also because of the. continual parade to prove government was continually assaulted by the throats of the door run company which said $4000.00 jobs would be gone tomorrow local folks desperately needed the jobs so. it became
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a significant issue and every time there was a threat or the rumor moved through tellings i was 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. full in our freezer or you know i'm sure all of. you know i took an easy yes you know i think it was going to. let me just ask you this and you said yeah. we call you. on the farm. encroaching on. holiday mother only i didn't know you and you were able i mean i just love it if you believe it was out of the basement. when i started looking a little yelling at this thought i wonder not without these to be a little you know you look he's been doing this you know because they may as
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possible and look a little you know it's a momentous time when he's on the scene or little you know somebody in the same pool who built who's coming to the foreperson at this point and then in the living not used to list unless you will not i want to personally i don't think i mean on the. right. i wonder if you. don't want to do it or if you. already have the moral ground. oh no you won't.
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my uncle with a kid same company saying oh boy tonight nobody. people know who they can. move on which i didn't know then showed up to move this bit of understanding from clinical on the field again show mr sutton i must. consider that. you must a much. the
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conclusions of the study are a revocable the foundry is poisoning citizens for reuben the health of his eldest son klein is particularly worrying a couple can't prove that there would be sure this except doesn't look at. probably so great it would look pretty. sydney go to set it up we're going to tell you what joke. we already know it's dozens if you see it the reverse as to what teaches us false and he said this form of the work you just don't know we're going to point out not. let the level of you're annoyed. but if you are. the only. one you saw. percent of the children had lead levels. some as high as $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be crucial children
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in such positions in the us would be hospitalized here in the us. 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. that i've been. meaning to. get out is it will be i'm open one of these uli you've got a lame but it's not going around.
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but he says really. good noised i wish ws only said we're not going to get a little bit of very useful eager to get him or sees us. he immediately really is that if you need these don't be guy 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. took place in washington with the people. that being the case please let us invite mr hamilton to begin his oral submissions thank
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you. for still enough to release. their record source of course. it's one of. us process yglesias. us by the race muddies the impress us. economical as you'll. see the treaty allows an investor to bring a claim against the state either on the claimant's 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 the state investor clause which allow companies corporations to sue local community is government groups states nations if they feel that their profits are being
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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
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a public hearing at the foreign affairs committee of the us congress. 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 and so in 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
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bodies and that is something that we can see they're completely unacceptable like you know. if she would. know is needed a political. they can equal exploded and then black eagle as you then either load or yes eco matter to put a. after help you know that i mean. iraq i mean us have them what they. have not yet. but that is but i have this better. 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
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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 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.
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claims brought by children. from state court to federal court they 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 tribunals 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 cannot game
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repeat claim a receipt to prove you have government so that is why we do need with a lot of careful to avoid. 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 lower roya 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
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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 to boys and 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
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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 into the lobbies the multinationals. to
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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. it's.
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