and the virgins mouse it, it is not successful for the united states tried to isolate any country, not also, it is not successful with russia in these global life globalizing on time, on in these globalizing words, every country has freed involved in the international affairs and the old and their national interests of all countries must be taken into consideration no on all to come and complain from pacific islanders is when a western military basis stationed on their territory, the waters soon become polluted until one seems to care. next we turned attention to the stunning party on the islands to chronicle. where's that and all the problems to around thing. all right, i had here the

um lien. uh not a uh unique. we love i live in paradise. the largest and southern most island in the marianas archipelago, han is dotted with blush, palm trees, and miles and miles of soft white and surrounded by turquoise squatters of the pacific ocean. but our paradise has the toxic legacies. well, i'm sure is the history of contamination with many us and overseas. military base communities is common knowledge that the us military use is highly toxic substances

and we are experiencing contamination of our land and waters when the agent orange . p. fast pcp is petroleum fuels heavy metals, fonts, high organic compounds, all the military war time cocktails. so you can imagine from being carpet bomb during world war 2. we're an island that has been referred to by veterans as one big superfund site. a history of military dumping impacts the health of many families here on our 212 square mile island. it only takes 2 hours to drive from one end to the other. that's how small we are. and we're inundated with environmental contamination. in this episode, i'm sharing real stories of community members whose homes are located by known military top 6 dump sites and how their families are among countless others and the communities suffering from clusters of where cancers in chronic illness. while it's

difficult to definitively connect their health issues with the environment, the correlation is enough for them to question why their family members are dying. dr. leasing, let's have a dog, a professor at university of bombs and primary convenor, a big long coalition for peace and justice. sat down to me and shared just how much this topic legacy left by the us military affects us today. when we talk about the impact of member transition on the health of tomorrows of us as an indigenous population, then we see is that the toxicity that comes from military activities from war preparation, military exercises. it really is manifested in our physical bodies. and we see this in cancer rates, for example. and so one such evidence of this is a study that was done by no vol and had it, which was published in 1997. and in their study,

what they did was they looked and surveyed a 25 year period of cancer death certificates and so and looking at those death certificates be identified and you know, computed what was the incidence of, of death of cancer and go on. and they were able to establish that tomorrow's were the highest risk for cancer and that the incidence of cancer was increasing. and this is after they use different calculations from the world health organization to standardized that across populations. and the 3rd finding, which for me is, was the most significant was that they were able to glean and 1997. that the villages of santa rita and hugo were the ones with the highest incidence rates. and they, in their article and particularly point out that those are the villages with the largest military base presence. and so you see this, this can grow and see in terms of military activities and the very direct impact

on the bodies of tomorrow's. i met up with rudy polco mer municipality at the heart of juan called my mom to to might see where he was born and raised. this municipality is commonly known as mtm and m. c. m is home of the largest flatland area, and juan called the have gone, you swap more than 70 years ago, run off from a navy operated power plant. and milan drained into a portion of the, a gun. yes. swamp. contaminating the residential area that was probably coordinated by fennel's or p c. b, which or industrial chemicals thing to cancer run out from the power plant which ran into the yard of paco's childhood home. to the 19 ninety's alco challenge the federal government to test for p. c. bees. not only on the swamp and surrounding soil and but on residents whose health may have been effected by the chemicals. but all i asked the federal government was to do

a physics for the community of mtm at nice every quarter, but that never happens. there's a family right over there in that house, every one of those and so cancer and look at where they live right across in the parks. i met up with the nurse to speak a little on pick her up in the home, directly across the navy power plants. she and 5 of her siblings, that old nasal french healed cancer. tragically, all 5 passed away of cancer and she is the soul cancer survivor. due to me before i tiring from ken and the government testers, right. but here's some of the affairs side. so why are you for this case when we were young? are sorry, we go through this wrong, my dad or this can of the navy risk and,

and go down there and would play in the month when we put your hands inside. we've got to so many, they're huge and they're very good ink to find that class and they're in the area. uh those 2 are some area in the rent to my dad can find lots of products and see name is my grand kids and my mom to the brothers and sisters leave around the area and see if they've done a yeah. nephew, 13th or so from the britney's there's. uh huh. are sick during those documents for me it's harder because, i mean, i have been directly affected, but i've had to like,

grow up my whole life. i have these memories watching my grandma like very her siblings. and that hurts. losing family members is quite okay. i feel like they could have had more years on this earth that my baby brother to. yeah. so yeah, my brother, brittany has, is cancer from major, very new york, and then she wrote a new bid. and then you know, they can to do is that's where i am very fortunate, i think right around the origin of my exercises i guess way from you know, when so like i really selfish to because i'm thankful that my grandma was the one

that survived. oh yeah, like how many, how many those times is did you lose or 5 or vice of me around my mom to the brother died before the end. use a 50 to 319. and then my sister i or sister. she has a native and you can transfer and she had a 5 set of treatment, but she never ran out of it. and then i'd love to years later, i have nice uh uh, native ranger, cancer, the street in ryan. same as when when i ran in 1997 doctor were seeing that there is no. so cancer is not really be and as of right,

something is not right. or there is a flat cancer in the same time for lunch going on around the area, which is, oh, these kinds immunizations less around my dad. fish we, this is a plan and not by then, right? we're not going to, there weren't just pc bees in the nearby waters into yard of victoria low, low younger arrows, childhood home sections of the top. so at this world war 2 dumpsite were found to be contaminated with hazardous levels of mercury, but arsenic pesticides and pcp. the property was formerly of the location of military supply warehouses and military vehicle base yard and a shooting range. the department of defense did

a partial clean up and never came back. oh yes, found that metal fee for this was the metal and it listed selected collecting. so there's even, um, the rest of the day on that i think you here. yeah. some of the metal center that really belong to the military. these are all, i don't know what all these are pipes so blue cross car centers . there might be a couple in there, but you know, i just threw them all in there. so i know every time the bus, the guys comedy kind of fly all over the place. yeah. when i was a kid, i would play in this with martha and bully me and i would like play in the jungle. and then i find like little pieces of metal and how her hungry me, the land that i grew up and talked to is my mother's land. and she inherited it

from her mom. and they started living there after world war 2 and wednesday, and that had belonged to the family and was mostly used for farming before the war . and then after the war for both my grandmother and her brother built hose in the app on the property as um, in western. and so we had always known that there was military waste from the war buried in the property. because when we were kids, we went bank the playing in the dirt and there was a gun powder or like once my brother found a bomb buried in the yard and had to, you know, they had to bring the like bomb squad and everything. and it was a bigger deal, but we had been really aware that the property itself had been used as a jump site after the war. but we had never been informed to what extent or what was buried in the property. and so, in 2008,

the army corps of engineers had contracted a team that came and they asked permission from our family and from my uncle, ben's family, my grand this brother and his children, to sort of take it up and, and really study what was there and that a degree of contamination that had occurred. and so they and said that in 2008 in 2010, they invited our families to long since 90 community center and have like a public hearing just for our families about what they had found. and so it was the site power point. and all bullet points, and they were, you know, basically saying that it had been both the water and the soil had been so heavily contaminated that the mediation they suggested was excavation and off site removal . which was only which only happened in cases where the contamination was so severe . their member of the town hall meetings. what that experience was like hearing

finally in details about contamination and what was in your property for me, it was kind of almost a shock because nobody ever said we never had any clean up or anything like that when we didn't even when they were digging for the house, it was your dog and you do it your house and that was it. right. but it was kind of scary. this is the fact and now i have grandkids and how much pile of dirt do i have to have in the bag so that they can be able to play back there. for how much dirt do i have to put a good cleaned or so that i can plan something back there and need off plan? my not because that's not a guarantee for me. the

i think one of the biggest obstacle is we all seasons. the lack of accountability and the lack of information. and so i think the 1st thing for our family is like being fully informed. like when we were requesting information about what went through these particular counseling office, what are some of the house uh, conditions that are active to you know this, this double up since combination and the water and soil and we were never provided that information, but we requested that as a public hearing number, if you have anything for us, the biggest issue is you know, as part of the community of how bad you know how badly it's been contaminated and then what does that mean for our bodies? what does that mean for our overall health and then come in succeeding enough, don't just about this and you know what they found in the property? was that the soil high levels of lead pcb arsenic and a ton of other chemicals?

i cannot mean. and that even the water has degrees of contamination that were higher than other areas on the island. and in the public hearing, there were family members from other parts. i've talked to in my long who had come because in their properties there was military company in a waste that they had found over the years just like we had. but they weren't told that the public hearing was only dealing with the monte cavalry banners properties . because we were like, i guess, considered one of the super fun in science. and so any other properties in the village, they weren't even going to investigate that. it wasn't on their list and that this was all that they were there to discuss. so like one guys came in was like, you know, i found like tanks buried in my yard. right. and they're like, oh that's, it's not on our list of properties that needed to be cleaned up. so where we can discuss that i had followed up because of that there the same

year i had lost my 1st child to a very birth dfcs caught on file a solid square. his intestines had formed outside his body in a sack and so abdominal wall dfacs are pretty rare, but are very common here in guam. and so when i had been doing research, you know, in so that just because i was, as a mother, really trying to understand like, how did this happen? you know, i had found like a connection. i had found an article, a scientific article linking the presence of an invalid style, or like high incidences of abdominal wall dfcs and a community that had like rocket fuel in the water. and so i was like, well, if there's like a mean it wasn't directly caught or caused, but there was this correlation rates on. i could then this environmental contamination have impacted my child. then they did show up

a year later with like a construction for most of the contamination was in my uncle ben's property, which is right below my mom's property. and so what they had sign ways of, i dug into the soil like these long rectangles and they had felt like shipping container as full of the soil. and then midway through the project, they ran out of money and they buried everything back and they have not shown up sense. so this ones around 2011. and now more than 10 years later they never came to finish the clean up. so they, you know, they investigated homeless there, they informed us, but was there, they began to clean up, and then they ran out of money and never finished the job. and my uncle ben's family, you know, my mc norma recently died of cancer. i know that you know, a couple of his funds have also had cancer and you know,

who knows is what other health conditions may be connected to this. but you know, a lot of the chemicals on that list are chemicals that are connected to high cancer rates and other communities. but yeah, for me like growing up in psych we were never growing up. we didn't drink water from the time, like it was just always been given that the water is not safe to drink period whether or not we knew how the land was contaminated, there is always just this way in which i think we're aware as a community of like the fact that we don't have clean drinking water and that it's a risk to drink the water coming out of our job. and then when we finally, you know, heard about our specific property. it was confirmed for when i think about what

happened to our property. i mean think about like just this idea that we like build our whole lives on this contaminated land. you know, with no accountability from the department of defense or not even like i'm just thinking like there are people who live here. sometimes i wonder and say when you hear about the way guam is depicted to the rest of the world as the military base. it's like no one ever thinks about the people who actually lived here and they only see one as a military installation, not as a island nation with such a rich history and families who call this place home and have done so for thousands of years freight and that is really terrifying to only be safe to not be seen as a people because what it means is that our actual health and wellbeing our lives,

they don't matter. and the military mission is what matters. the defend as of the house and as far as united states has what matters and what sacrifice is our own house and well be. i think we need to go back to back to the table and discuss some more. i need to invite more families in and even if i don't have a major clean up this way, the test to test the dirt on the ground. because i'm never going to find anything in the back pc. these aren't just a problem in mtm residents in the southern village of reed. so are still being advised to avoid meeting fish from the co goes to do because the level of pcp contamination and sampled fish remains of bugs federal standards for steve consumption. very says the closest village should compass island, the farmers side of the u. s. coast car is mon range, navigation for a bar m station from 1944 to 1963. p c. b is from

electrical equipment use at the coast curse lauren stations, such as transformers and capacitors for improperly discarded on campus island and co coast. in 2005 the coast guard or move sources of pcb contamination in around coco's island. but in 2015 follow up sampling showed some spikes and pcb levels and levels of toxic pesticide d d t. and the water is around kobus island, including fish plants. so we just take a boat out to this is cocos island. it's right off the coast of one. 9 right back to there and so the village of molasses. so the military shuts down the navigation station in 1965, but we're still feeling the effects of the p. c. b contamination. up until today. these are the last thing,

decades long impacts of historical can termination done by the us military that our people are still feeling. and a lot of what activists have been saying all these years is that we can't be building up the, you know, the, the, the military expansion in this region is called the military buildup. and we can't be building up while we're still trying to clean up. there's so much toxicities still in this area and so we have to do what we can as a community to continue to raise awareness so that our families are not affected. so that. c we're not suffering from cancer and other chronic illnesses, from the toxicity across our island. and my name is ronna fi, g, dr. melissa, do a born and raised there. i just recently moved up, but my father and all generations before me of all lived in my life with where from

there and i live in this the more northern side of miller so which is in b b, b. but we fish there all the time and focus on and try. and so it was a big thing. and melissa, my youngest cousin, my cousin at my age at that time, and in his thirty's, dido cancer and my other cousin who was younger than and his brother died at the age of 40. he died of cancer. and all that i think is because of what they, what, what they left in the ocean for us. and luckily, i didn't made it a habit to, to go they all the time. but they did because that was whenever there was a party we were sent out to go out and do fishing all the time. every time, every day, whenever we needed to, we had to know was the place we went to. so i think the military has not done the due diligence show, and if not really help the people to control what,

what is there? i'm sure others should feel the same way that the pcp is not, is, is still there. and is that the position we think is affected us. i think the federal government needs to continue to do their part, not just on the, on the ocean, but also to even us just on our people in the british. very so mere ernest, char gloss says the community has been left in the dark about water quality rather sash 2 as far as information because i know they did studies online, they should be cleared up. some other sam, it will show your samples on shar, nurse, your nurse are in atlanta, as well as the waters in the immediate area and then instead of the moon and those studies and then whatever shines the big things that they were doing in the water were never given the community as far as the research where i wanted to find it for . so to me is the stair step. when the science dash angel, our issue may be and of course drive,

they should collaborate with their information to disseminate the appropriate information. so that you may know people knowledgeable or what's going on, and you keep them updated on one, you'll find these are on, on, on one basis as i'm read. so residence has family has subsisted off the land and waters of molest, due for generations. charge to off express, concerned about the health impacts of pcp exposure. i was there. i was there, the trash grab, blank drum and toner crap. and i was led to fish as well, so the fish in or on they are in the dish affected. i catch the fish on there. so i'm concerned that, you know, i don't know if i ever, i may have been just it or those that in dollars with the fish that i taught in the area may have been just it. and then a hasn't bearing under health from shark las perspective, the federal government should continue to conduct regular testing and exhaust all remedies to restore the health of the co goes look good. the response to move this

you be on the federal government. they're the ones that created library, so those transformers there and they should know that you don't dispose of it and appropriately use a portion on how to dispose of, of our pcd containing elements, you know, the transformers or anything them as talk she materials. you have to discard them, i'm just partial them accordingly. that's wanting to chime different ways of onto the scorching or properly dysfunctional or whatever we face today is something i truly don't have to worry about them all fun. who can, that will not be in the, the, to not fun. who do we have will not fun. who rooms? he has a book some time on the

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