the of the phenomena calibration is beginning to apply a different phase on some of us who think that trade should be on the basis of which while it the on the quality thing, the dot is a useful development. you have also seen the continuation of russia oswick, a dialog on me, things it particularly instruct you on one looks to relationship that is symbiotic, but it cannot be gained said that the impact of the war in ukraine as hard. it's odd, fuss effect. thank you very much. we have had a discussion about a very important subject. it is a subject that is still alive because the conflict continues, but we will continue this discussion good by the

the lean uh not e. i need the team. uh 5 i live in paradise. the largest and southern most island in the marianas archipelago, while han is dotted with blush, palm trees, and miles and miles of soft white sand, surrounded by turquoise squatters of the pacific ocean. but our paradise has a toxic legacy. quam shares,

the history of contamination with many us and overseas military base community. it is common knowledge that the us military use is highly toxic substances and we are experiencing contamination of our land and waters by the agent orange p. fast pc, bees, 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, the in or for to buy 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 toxic 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. lisa and it's have it on 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 the 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 the

study that was done by novel and headaches 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 they identified and you know, computed what was the incidence of a staff of cancer on, on go on and they were able to establish that tomorrow's or 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 standardize 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 you go where 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 mirror municipality at the heart of while i'm calling 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 gun. yes, one more than 70 years ago, run off from a navy operated power plant in milan. drained into a portion of the a gun. yes. swamp. contaminating the residential area. it was probably coordinated by fennel's or p, c. b, which or industrial chemicals thing to cancer, run out from the power plant. when to ran into yard of paco's childhood home. to the 19 ninety's alco challenged the federal government to test for p. c. b's not only on the swamp and surrounding soil and but on residents whose health may have

been effected by 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 up where they live right across and the parks. i met up with the know so speak a little hon. pick her up in the home, directly across the navy power plants. she and 5 of her siblings, that old nasal friend, teel cancer. tragically, all 5 passed away of cancer and she is the soul cancer survivor. we, we for karen from canada and the government testers, right. good, the, here's somebody of fans. why are you for this case when we were young,

i'm sorry we go through this wrong. my net or this can of the navy risk it. c and go down there and we put in the most, we put your hands inside. we can do so man, they're huge. and they're very good to find this class and they're in the area. uh, those 2 are from area and run to my dad. and then from farms and same name is my grand kids. and my mom to the brothers and sisters leave around the area to they say, yeah, nephew is also from the britney. there's, uh huh. there are 6 during there was that for me it's hardly

because, i mean, i haven't 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. see, and my brother brittany has his cancer from major, very new york and then he rose and then you know they can to do is boom. and that's why i'm very fortunate, i think, right around the origin of my exercises i guess way from, you know,

it's like really selfish to because i'm thankful that my grandma was the one that survived on like how many, how many list i was is that you list of 5 advised me around my mom to the brother right before the end user, 5051 and then my sister, i or sister. she has a native in your dentist 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. so okay, the street in line. same as we when i ran in 1997 doctor were seeing that there is no. so

cancer is not really the, and the company is not right for 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 see a plan and not by then, right? we're not going to, there weren't just pcp use in the nearby waters and figured 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 p cds. 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 cleanup and never came back. oh yes, found that metal fee for this is the metal that we've been selected and just collecting. so there's even um, the rest of the day and i think a year yeah. some of the metal center that really belong to the military. these are all, i don't know what all these are types. so, but of course for carts and is there might be a couple in there, but you know, i just threw them all in there. so i had every time that was set a 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 and miserable.

and then i find like little pieces of metal guns, how her hand creaming 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 by 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 light 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 side 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, they came and they asked permission from our family and from my uncle ben's family, my problem is brother and his children, to sort of take it up and, and really study what was there and the 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 a almost a shock because nobody ever said we never had any clean up or anything like that. when we, even when they were digging for the house, it was, you jogging, you build 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 bath so that they can be able to play back there? for how much dirt do i have to put a good, clean dirt so that i can plant something back there and eat off land? i'm not cancer, because that's not a guarantee for me. is the launch of a special military operation mold in $13000.00 far less than the race of joining

the ukrainian military. we williams, lot of things are good enough to still go to another venue i need for 2 of us doing the with any of them. surely because it was trustworthy. which of my friend build for the fine you is fine. yeah. the, the but yeah. the at the at the end of the was it is i didn't know that you know for your state of a better breakdown system talk as long as you might have somebody made a couple of dining. come see fun. sues the to sean. yeah. music constant mosier, so the just find out of the excess to go on top of the computer, which is what it means. it is so slow because you are gone. is that also beautiful supervisor? federal assurance for you. my florida. she knew was like, you strong enough was instead of the physical not

the i think one of the biggest obstacle is we all feel since 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 houses that are connected to you know this, this double up since combination in the water and soil and we were never provided that information, but we requested that as a public hearing, right? he's in 1st thing for us, the biggest issue is of 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 overall health and then come in succeeding it up? don't just about it. 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 and talked to in my long who would come because in their properties there was military company, you know, 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 monthly cavalry banners properties because we were like, i guess, considered one of the super fun and science. and so any other properties in the village, they weren't even calling to investigate that. it wasn't on their list and that this was all that they were there to discuss. so like one guy 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 very 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 um 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 called a cause, but there was this correlation rates on like 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 signed ways of, i dug into the soil like these long rectangles and they had failed, like shipping container is 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 cents. so this one is around 2011. and now more than 10 years later, they never change on to finish the clean up. so they, you know, they investigate and hold us there, they informed us, what 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 what other health conditions may be connected to this. but you know, a lot of the chemical is 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 they 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 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, is i, 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. they only see one as a military installation. not as a island nation with such a rich history of families who call this place home and have done so for thousands of years freight and that is really terrifying to only be seen to not be seen as the 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 defense of the continental united states is 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'm just inviting more families in. and even if i don't have a major clean up this way, the test still tests the dirt and the ground because i'm never going to find anything in the back pc. these aren't just a problem in mtm. presidents 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 the federal standards for steve consumption rates. as the closest village should companies, island, the farmers side of the u. s. coast car is long range navigation for

a bar in station from 1944 to 1963. p c. b is from electrical equipment use at the coast, cursed lauren stations, such as transformers and capacitors for improperly discarded on purpose island and enclosed in 2005. the coast guard removes 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 all to this is coco's island. it's right off the coast of guam right back there is the village of molest due to the military shuts down the navigation station in 1965. but we're still feeling the effects of the pcp contamination up until today. these are lasting decades long impacts of

historical contamination 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, then 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 taxes to be still in this area. c 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 cancers and other chronic illnesses, from the toxicity across our island. and my name is ronna fi, g to melissa, do a born and raised there. i just recently moved up, but my father and all generations before me of all of them actually were from there

. and i live in this the more northern side of mother. 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 and dido cancer, and my other cousin who was younger than and his brother, died of 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 there all the time, but they did because that was never, 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, cheryl does not really help the people to control what,

what is there? i'm sure others feel the same way that the p c b is not, is, is still there. and is that the profession? we think there's a fit to us. i think it is. 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 do as far as information because i know they did studies online, they should be cleared up some other sam it to shorter samples on shar nurse sure nurse on in land as well as the waters in the immediate area. and then instead of the moon and those studies and then whatever shines the big uh, the 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, think of our issue, maybe a and co shy, they should collaborate with their information to disseminate the appropriate information so that you may know people knowledgeable of 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 the last 2 for generations. charged 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, the dish affected. i catch the fish on their. so i'm concerned that you know, i don't know if i ever, i may have been just it or noticed that in dollars with the fish that i called in the area manager said, 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 because the responsibility should 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 in a properly use of portions on how to dispose of, of our pcd containing elements, you know, the transformers or anything, even as talk she materials. you have to discard them. i'm just partial them accordingly. as wanting to chime different ways of onto his publishing or not appropriately dysfunctional or whatever we have faced today is something i truly don't have to worry about tomorrow. fun. who can, that will not be in the, the, to not fun. who do we have to do? not fun, who rooms he has

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