which. includes seeking the system we of course we need to to criticize also the power of the companies and we need to criticize what corporate lawyers do but we also need to point our fingers at the states and have we have to really say look. states created the systems and states have the power to get rid of the system that's 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 x e e last just of sin to be her personal advisor on energy transition.

most heads of state are ambivalent. not even you don't consider. long. i have usually to provide their lucky for you cannot be easy to present producing items on the. style of play such an easy. going after that bag or start your shop on it because you know it is just nice and sweet you know north of the share. and to walk south and he's told her mom in a duplicate bottom of their i don't know off on complaint you keep them on their. own full so you can see them in cincinnati so while you are. the ones that actually see prove you are not exist don't insult.

econo highest stands you know decent that. these institutions have been there so i don't even think. some of these 2 marked out for complaint. 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 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 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 think you smell lead and then you see the vegetation begins to get 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. this stack is. emitting tons of pollution

what you see is the passive contamination 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. emilia you know who you know you know the. polio or really mean. we don't know this one now and i'm only receive. if i think you're going to be sure to say he. was that. he said yeah larry. was noisy. when the peruvian state filled in foundry dover in peru to the raincoat group in 1907 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. which south americans call the chernobyl of the andes 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 europe 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 a herculean e.-m. missouri. this 3 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 stock had organized a meeting she invited some environmental health specialists from st louis university fred mandel struggle and 2 representatives from la toya community. we had a conversation had a meal together and talked 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 was an issue of same health issues in both places and. the mobilization began to bear fruit. in 2005 years from the university of st louis led by professor fernando savan know when to peru to do the 1st blood tests on the people of that over a our. journey cling to killing her those who see still want. only to the you. can but at the will

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but it can be yet. they had. not i see a lot of. 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. up in the. cold. there are a lot and there were a lot of for a short mostly by the. dea and also because of the.

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 the jobs so it became a significant issue and every time there was a threat or the rumor moved through 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 not. easy as you know. yeah.

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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 a couple of him look at them what is he sure this except doesn't look at look up us so. it would look good to work through. our city go to said look we're going to continue with joe. we already know it's dozens if you see it the good earth as to what he does us for so you see the storm of the network you just don't know no one can hope we don't not. let the level of you're annoyed. with your. 97 percent of the children had led

snowballs. sunless highest $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be. crucial children in such positions in the u.s. will be hospitalized here in the u.s. . 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.

mean you're simply to. get out is it will be i'm open one of these you julie you've got a lame but it's not going around your mental in order must be unpalatable kind of. thing but he says who nearly. noise there was a couple yes and he said well you're not going to get a little bit of very useful eager to get him more says the u.s. eagerly malky yes here 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 trial took place in washington without the people of loughrea that being the case please let us invite mr hamilton to begin his oral submission. thank you. for still not to release. their record source because. it's one of. us costs us yglesias. mean us by the rays mother he's going impress us. economical as you'll. 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 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. and the st louis researcher for nando's 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 facts and 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 u.s. trade for you agreement i believe i believe we must put an emphasis is we

must make a priority of the hill needs and rights of the people of illinois especially the children and especially the born we have children being born with lead in our bodies and that is something that we can see they are completely unacceptable like you know. if she would. noisily akiko needed a political. they can equal expert at them then black eagle as you then either load or yes eco matter to put. after help you know that i mean. iraq i mean us have them what they. have not yet. but that is but as this. legal. 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 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. promptly 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 either to the arbitration wrinkle was refused because of every songs but sure wrinkle can again wreak label resealed the proof of it so that is why we do need 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 have received nothing and continued to breathe polluted air. my greatest hope is that people particularly 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 loons 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 health and the environment all over the world. and to defend the interests of the people rather than the major private corporate interests. so.

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