it's very real i mean they don't want to comment they believe they have. this is for me. it would be a well i don't know maybe they don't make or. break right. now. in critiquing 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 there are colombia or peru or developing countries even if

they're mali and what have you the states have the power to get rid of the system if they chose to do so but do things really want to governments and big business are often complicit. vattenfall group for example had the chancellor's ear she even appointed its x e e o o last just of sin to be her personal advisor on energy transition. most heads of state are ambivalent. even you don't consider the fast. long. averaging to provoke transitionary key for you cannot be easy to present in producing a. style of play such an easy. going to own a home after all so that you don't shop on it because it is just nice you know no one was. and to walk some counties to don't harm in

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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 uproot 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 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 smokestack 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. emilia you know who you know you know the. polio or remain. we don't know and i'm only reasonable. 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 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 ever more polluted. the presbyterian church became more and more aware of the inner connections between . the us economy and. in 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 a herculean iyam missouri. this country also belong to bring. the pastor decided to go there with peruvian archbishop federal grant. links i 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 the lower your community . we had a conversation to be able to gather 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 killing me i'm the focus a lot 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 2500 years of the university of st louis led by professor fernando savan no we don't. room to do the 1st blood tests

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keep the sun that. knows i think that. leave you didn't even know it as. there is a drug dealers. in the night around. as you go in there and play start. and i think i mean. p.s. feel more a multivalued when posting about it i hope it is not simple you have alerting the reader to god i mean this you. get a level of condemning this year. will they best of their known to you. i said was that. this you. know is mr bush already said. then that. let it get as good as those 2 leaders. will seal it was the

leader laugh where is her. foot is that a guess that now going to. go it is hell. and i really. want to hear good evil and it was in a movie. that i can't really yet. there. 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. branco then threatened to close the factory. up in the. cold. there are a lot and there were a lot of mostly by the. dea and because of the. new operate the. 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 street. it's. cool stories are you know i'm sure all

of. you i took with. us you know that there was. let me just ask you this and you said yeah. we're going to you. know meet. on the farm. in croatia for the. fall you know others only i didn't know you and you were able let me just pull out if you believe it was only a basement. when i started. going oh you know you can start the window not with the trees to be a little you know you look suspicious. because they may as well as abroad look a little you know it's a momentous time when he's on the scene your lawyer somebody in the senate who votes whose time it was a poor person looks like and it was in the lending not used to list unless you were

not i would personally i completely i mean on the. right. i wonder if. you will have come from 0. 0. 000 to do it or if you're you know you know you're. part of ground. 0 not very well bill. but the fundamental notion you know border is just blind to nationalities.

the summary would be we don't look like the whole world needs to be. judging. commentary classes. we can do better we should know. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is grateful to respond. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. a

day or thinks. we dare to ask. the conclusions of the study are irrevocable the foundry is poisoning the overall u.s. 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 at the. letter said you go to sleep we're going to do to you what you. knew we were already knows. the good earth is the one teaches us false and he said the storm of the work you just don't know

no one can hope we don't know. let the devil of the new idea annoy. 97 percent of the children had led the halls. some of us highest $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 roy would be losing between $1.00 and $3.00 i.q. points for every year that they lived in the city.

i mean it out is it will be i'm open one of these you julie you got. your. is guilty plea. for us you want to give noise there was a couple. of very useful eager to get him through the u.s. eagerly malky yes here he employed really is that if you need a year. in 2009 because of the lack of investment by ranko in environmental standards at the site and due to health issues this state ordered its closure just what iran had was hoping for.

it's an indirect expropriation the domain of international arbitration. iran which attacked the peruvian state and the trial took place in washington without the people of laos. 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 my brace or impress us either about how glorious. your economic or. your. 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 the state investor clause which allow companies corporations to. local community 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 of the least to the community of. the regional archbishop. obtained a public hearing at the foreign affairs committee of the us congress. and the st louis researcher for nando's the man who were called to testify in july 2012 . is the great threat to the people of bahrain meant as this is. a great concern the game is the multiple exposure all of this. toxic metals affecting the body and the effects. so in a discussion of the economic and legal and other factors related to the

relationship between the united states government and peru in to framework of the u.s. trade for the agreement i believe i believe we must put an emphasis is we must make a priority of the hail need civil rights of the people of illinois especially the children and especially the born children being born with lead in their bodies and that is something the way cosier completely unacceptable like you know a morrow if she would say. no is. that a politico. they can equal explicit at the bangkok eagleman ask you then i would oh yes. but up with. his was. after hope you know that i mean. iraq i mean us have them what about the. yes. but that is but i have this.

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 cigars to the peruvian free trade agreement is very similar waked is with regards 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. lawsuit against iran 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 rinko 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 go did that by bringing to the attention of the united states federal court the existence of a treaty dispute that 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 the united states and the tribunal found that there was a violation of that treaty requirement and the claim to be. refused because. every songs but sure ring again repeat the label received. so that is why we do need. 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 lao roya have received

nothing and continued to breathe polluted air. my greatest hope is that people particularly 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 to boys and children in a committed. in europe the well the 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 this 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. 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 law because those multinationals. to defend the freedom of states to legislate. to preserve kills and the environment all over the world. and to defend the interests of the people rather than the major private corporate interests. above. us.

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