the lead, no e, the unique we love as pacific peoples, we have a deep and secret connection to water. yet all around the pacific communities are on the ground organizing to protect this life, giving source in a fight for our lives. i spent the last year on a journey through the mariana islands and so i who, who i documenting incision is resistance against us imperialism and protection of water in their homelands. i spoke with protectors who remind us not only of the deep importance of water for our very survival, but share the we use the water is embedded in our language and life with some about

to get on the flight to say pan and meet with some of the activism community members to see how they feel about the ways that the most hurry expansion is impacting the region. it's important to note that military expansion that's currently happening. you can see so much of those realities here in guam. but it's, it's not just quantum being impacted. there are just under a 1000000 square not a co miles of ocean that are being used for training exercises by the us military. when i arrived in stipend, connected with members of our comfortable 670, the grassroots community group doing critical work, drawing attention to military training as part of the mariana islands, training and testing area, or mits, which is close to 834000000 acres of open ocean around the mariana islands and near the hawaii range complex used for military life, fire or nets,

testing and training, and w sooner to be the o. c, w 670 is cathy and i know discuss the groups efforts to de escalate militarization and conduct educational outreach and the marianas. since we 1st started getting environmental impact states us back and leave 1990 is there has been an expansion in the region. how much weight and will be used, and also our waters that surround us, especially with the mariana side when training and testing area which has expanded with all of our water resources around these islands. and it's really connecting a lot of those spaces between the i to further understand the impacts of the expansion i spoke with masters or m t or a traditional healer sign of donald lindsey. ola cruz pressed his concerns about the ways military training is harmful to tomorrow. control systems including

millennial or traditional healing practices. what am is a lot of things that are from true. we want to give a water pure angry and even the ocean has to be green. because uh we, we think our patients the mellow to the ocean, we make them base every day, right to increase the realtor association of the pacific in depth. and that is going to effect may not be tomorrow that after tomorrow, but now the generations. and as was, should not be happening. we have to protect the future generation. some of that we don't have we, we don't want any, anybody coming out of the ocean with mashes or cancer is the source or whatever. do do the country our united states practicing on their, their weapons out there in the ocean where we go out and we, they've been in there or as there's a traditionally defended on the ocean for their life. because they have the my,

they have the and the, the name and don't send everything on land, but then they get their protein. most of the proteins on the ocean, we don't want any testified fish that we're going to be taken to or by the system to make us sick. my 2 accounts solve for native tomorrow announcement president, we on the hop snyder and part of wisdom about the importance of water to tomorrow. life ways and language for advocacy work stems from leaving the island to pursue higher education. i'm returning home to the realization that the interests of the native peoples were not being prioritize. i notice that as time every time i come home, i notice that a lot of things that. a are you know, critically important to us as tomorrow is those native people here um, become almost like the 2nd week priority and it saddens me. so i

believe that, you know, having a focus voice on what are very important and essential to the survival of the native people are the very core of this organization. so we do a lot of advocacy and especially in public policy. and we saw called, you know, i like the so called watch dog or, you know, a lot of the public policies public policy really directly affects everything. everything from, you know, and especially our natural resources. you know, we're not access, you know, to our natural resources and our access to, you know, these secret spaces. one issue a particular important stop schneider and respect to the impacts of military training. and the marianas is the ongoing bombing them to us or fair lawn dimensionally at a tiny, uninhabited island north obama, less than 2 miles long and half a mile wide. the us military has been bombing of cm for training purposes since 1971. recently, a con, permission to drop $4000.00 more explosives there every year,

along with tens of thousands more around. so, but i mean, ition, if you go to western fisheries management and, you know, those are the folks that look at our water, as you will see how important to us is because it's a large bonding, reese, you know, and that's where all the fishes, you know, gathered to, you know, to reproduce and provide food for it. why am i very emotional when you, when you ask that is because i know in the way they're doing their back because it's not only the us, it's other allies also practice there. you know, japan everywhere. i mean, anyone that have an ally, they, they've gone baptism, they drive, they fly their jobs from files in iowa and nebraska up here through the test that pilots in durance, you know, and the mom and then go back. they want to have a relationship with the united states, and the part of that relationship is to for security, national security. but i don't, i don't believe, and i don't agree that we would have to compromise our, our health,

you know, our, our survival because our health is our survival, our, our foot, the footprint of the military footprint on how it does it's business on the island in a verified you environment. it's another, it's another issue. and it's prevalent that when we talk about expansion uh, both into and in and here in road. uh, you know, i haven't really heard much about, you know, i'm really to expansion there. but in tune in here, and the environment is like a 2nd. the 2nd issue, it's always talked about how the economic, you know, economic of the benefits and, and all this and, and also of course national security. but they don't put a lot of emphasize and you know, correct me if i'm wrong, you know, i mean, i challenge anyone to come out then tell me publicly that they put

a lot of emphasize on, on how the environment is not going to be. in fact, more going to be impact and on what certain degree of that impact is because i haven't seen enough to read, you know, on and that concerns. in addition to met activities, groups in the marianas are organizing to raise awareness about the effects of military actions and are home islands from plans to establish a series of live fire training ranges, high caliber a by fire and maneuver training bombing in the land waters. and aerospace and pog in, in 10 in islands, north of guam and the commonwealth of the northern marianne is these training activities are called the commonwealth joint military training or a c, j m t plans where we're still waiting for the c jan teeth, the commonwealth joint military training, the next the i us to come out. so it wasn't stopped, it's going to be proposed again. and again,

the public is just really concerned that how many commons do you need before you, you realize that this is not a livable situation. where a 184 square miles of terrestrial land under something to be thought about, you know, lot of departments and agencies try to find a compromise between, you know, local indigenous interests and in the military. and usually compromises a very good, formal way of like getting things done and moving forward. but when you think about the share permit impacts that, you know, these actions have on like land resources and people's livelihoods compromise isn't enough. it's not gonna cut to because what it's doing is so much more permanent and so much more harmful by doing a compromise is detrimental to the people who are most important, which is the people here. i visited david hank in, in a while, who hawaii a senior attorney at or of justice who are present at the 10 in women's association

guardians, have connie park in wash, and there's center for biological diversity in a lawsuit. challenging and destructive cnn, my joint military training plans. i started proposing moving marines to guam. they were saying, oh, we can just continue with what we've been doing in the past on simeon, which is just small arms fire. so target price practice basically with bullets. and then they actually discount it any possibility of doing training in august and saying it's too far away. it's too remote, we won't do anything there. and then after they made the decision to move the marines to guam, they come out with this draft environmental impact statements for the training in the northern mary on is that suddenly revealed that what they actually wanted to do was turn 20 and plug it into major war sounds so on the island of penny and it wouldn't just be limited to bullets. it would be mourners and artillery and there be ariel got ships and i am dubious landings with damage the coal rece. there. i've

been pug in this situation with even more dire. they were basically working at the island, forgetting about the indigenous people, forgetting about the families, they call that i went home saying that it's temporarily unoccupied because of the volcano and saying, okay, we're going to use this is our new target island. and they were going to do an aerial bombardment and shipped to shore showing and amphibious assault with live fire. and basically the entire northern part of the island, which is where the village was before the volcano would be turned into an impact area. and when they examined that in the draft, yes, they said, oh, well, they won't be any impacts to people because they're no people, they're forgetting about all the families were eager to return home. uh so you know, what really just struck me was the military is complete lack of transparency and honesty about what was in store for the northern marianas. if marines were gonna be stationing one in april of this year, the g o t,

throughout some of the proposed training plans for plugin and any and after $27000.00 comments were submitted. as part of the national environmental policy act or a deep process. nature requires federal agencies to examine the potential effects of their proposed actions on the human environments. revised plans for the northern marianas have yet to be released. it is definitely too soon to be popping in a champagne over the changes when the mary otto's, because all we've seen so far is a press release from the governor of been, or the marianas, and a couple of vague statements at a public press conference from the navy, until they actually released a new plan for the northern marianas. no one should feel comfortable that bombing log in and bombing 10 in are off the table. i mean, this is one thing that might decades of litigation or against the military have

todd me. is that, unfortunately, pitney, they really can't be believe, you know, what they say one day can change 180 degrees to the next. know now in the ukraine or ukraine, russia war situation and, and were china in yes, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's making everybody nervous in the pacific. i always should me, the take a fresh look around is life kaleidoscopic. isn't just a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real opinions. fixtures, design to simplify will confuse who really wants a better wills, and is it just as a chosen few fractured images presented to this,

but can you see through their illusion going underground can for military and government officials have said plans for the northern mariano is have been revised construction on a day for air fields in san in continues, which poses a threat to tenants, primary offer near shore environment, and the health of the general public coast main water source will be compromised by proposed fuel pipelines, the transport of fuel to the airfields fuel tanks, this air field would be offered as an alternative to anderson air force base in guam is while i'm ready to get attacked. the $161000000.00 project is packaged for completion in 2025. so you cut across perfectly beautiful property and evaluated, especially with just feel even if it was going to be buried in the ground. can you

develop that last it? just evaluate our lab. please change that. just follow them all the way up and go up to your own property and make a line up there. and you can put it on your own property up there a week. this is already being polluted mail with applied flights that are going in and outright. they're proposing pipeline to bring show from the port all the way to the airport. it's going to be underground pipeline. the study that was used by the military was not found in peer reviewed study. it was actually a study that was with a stratum group, which is supported by a funding from the co brothers, which of course support pipelines. and they're stated there's, they've been was, this is safer than what they're using right now, which is transporting my truck. so we question that using just that study and other

other studies, we also pointed out all these pipelines that have had damages and leaks. what's really detrimental for attorney and is this over to their primary uncle for, for the drinking on or so that's what we're concerned for pretending. and we totally respect that the people on turn in they are also looking for ways to boost if they are in common e. mm hm. and we're just there to support them for what they see is best for the community when we will preston for the last 2 was let's look at some, a reasonable range of stationing alternatives other than warm. so why does that have to be warm in a modern world where you can deploy forces quickly by air? you know, why are we going with this sort of 20th century thinking that warm is the forward location? why can't we have a smaller contingent that rotates through and maybe a australia and maybe california may be in hawaii. i don't really wish it on any place. but if you're going to make

a rational decision about where to station troops, you have to do it in a transfer way. i mean, frankly, if you're concerned about north korea, alaska is closer, then mom is. david holds a unique perspective as an environmental attorney has litigated against military for decades, and as represented groups across the marianas and hawaii in matters related to the impacts of the us military projects on the environment. currently he represents the sierra club, hawaii, an ongoing litigation surrounding the red hill border crisis and environmental disaster and cautionary toford walheim, as our community rallies and protection of our fresh water uncle for david noted patterns by the us military, including a lot of public trust communication and transparency right around thanksgiving, military families drinking the water out, the military's on water supply and started turning on the tops and their kitchen. and it smelled like a gas station. and people are getting sick and you know, and,

and been babies were getting rashes in the board and feeling wearable. and still, the navy command was telling their people, the water is safe to drink. don't worry about it. while in a while, so i joined a bus to are led by a while, who water projectors a group on the front lines of the red hill water prices also on the tour were members of rug nation, need of organization centered around the liberation of indigenous peoples. from colonialism and slope factory and environmental and social injustice movement on the way to the gate of the us pacific fleet command county do. franco. a lead organizer with a while, who are the protectors, spoke about how the communities please to shut down the road. hill field thinks continue to be disregarded by the maybe the 1st go happened for some reason. spill happened in may of last year. uh 2nd. spill have been in november of last year and it did not become public knowledge until uh, over

a week after that november spell that there was been trolling in the water system. so that included the thanksgiving weekend when military families came and sat down and gathered in drink water that the navy knew was fully contaminated. i'm a 1000 people into the hospital and they had to come forward and give it some kind of explanation because department of housing, others are demanding what is going on here. and that's the only reason we even know that this bill occurred may spell, has not made public knowledge before that that, that have happened. and so early december of a coalition of black active is decided that something needed to be done. and when it was a difficult movement, there is nothing to physically block them. kids was occurring, you know, unfortunately, can physically make doing happen any faster. so we have to use other political um, you know, and then and uh, social media tactics. um, and so the, what was decided was to create a co op and a co, ha, co op is a, um, a, a family of spiritual gathering uh for the community to come together. uh,

and then distances the feet by water. um, and that is, you know, where it was eating comedy here. i need to buy a whole lot to give was that nourishment as a movement to continue to fight at the gate as a token of solidarity. i offered water from behind, start in coastline. everetts indian, currently under threat from the establishment of the us marine by fire training range complex in new uh, you got a new wow. don't. yeah. oh, i go who. oh guy. yeah. yeah, no, no, going to go back. oh, i hear what you know, are you who maybe security interrupted our visit to the co uh is and county land though, but i'm just stating okay. okay, what is it the call is you guys gotta face it that way and i can be on camera. and

this is antonio plan, right? but you guys can kind of face your account pulled up here and all the plans that we can speak with that way. but if you're not, what i'm doing for the yeah, yeah, they bought a different brand which is about the face of the state of the go that way. this is this the state of hawaii lane. yeah, we're going to be leaving in a moment. but again, just in your jurisdiction down, you don't have jurisdiction here. so i don't want you to not you can go on and we're gonna have that conversation. captain just miller, chief of staff, the u. s. navy pacific command overseeing the red hills. a feeling efforts. also walked over to our group at the co, uh, and exchange orange county who had the opportunity to remind the military that the water protectors are always watching. you remember enough to know how to best want otherwise. me think that today i'm pretty sure they are going down the hallways watch star away while we were

doing our, our pool in our prayer. you know, initially the the chief of staff for the navy had specifically command um jeff miller came out. um, someone that we've had discussions within the past. so you know, at the moment was one of those senior members in charge of the, the feeling of red hill, you know, came out to kind of check in and what we were doing. and then kind of give a side comment that is basically monitoring your online presence and what we're up to, and that is something as an activist that isn't funny. and that we understand, we're continually putting yourself out on the line and you know, fully expose as, as civilian. but after that interaction, you know, we continued with, with our play. and following that, the security guard from the front of the base came out. tom basically telling us that we had to leave and we couldn't sell me in that area where we get understood already from doing activision on that i know on that occupied. i know that then in this particular moment while others are still sovereign, wine kingdom land,

that this is also state and county land. and the department defense doesn't just have jurisdiction to be able to do whatever they want. they have to follow the rules of law, and in that moments you can tell us to leave. and so we had an introduction to which i reminded him. you know, you can tell us to leave if you want to do something else, feel free to call the police, but we don't have to move because you're telling us to any followed up where the department defense we can do and say whatever we want. and you're just saying, you cannot in this moment, you are wrong, step away. we're going to do what we gotta do. we're doing prayer here on our occupied land. it's and you've got to go and eventually do walked away. but it was, it was, you know, one of those moments when would somebody active is from around the world together just to show you know, the active military occupation of our land. while we are trying to do prayer and protection of water, we continue to get harassed on our occupied land on a daily basis. but as a kind of special and powerful moment to share together and solidarity. the next

day i intend as a community event at thomas square in observance of the holy, he asked to come memory the restoration of hawaiian sovereignty and as a way to give voice to hawaiian independence and issues surrounding militarization . while at the events i met up with joy in tomato, a canal. kamali active is to spoken the importance of collective solidarity throughout the pacific. we know that the u. s. navy 93000 people being poisoned by jet fuel is literally the equivalent number of what it's the displacement of martial ease from nuclear testing. they don't care about poisoning 90000 people. they don't care about displacing those people. in fact, i think that if the navy had its way, it would literally, you know, let the water be poisoned and that would mean we would so many people would have to move. and the military could do it at once. so we need to, like, i mean, not just the community but not and let just a ways like every is blink other people,

other parts of the world need to show up for each other to stop is because if it's not here, where is that fuel going to go, it's going to go to go on is going to go to ok. now it's going to go to other parts of the pacific, the camp of that are already over, inundated by military activation. it may not be that we go to war, but if we do go to war, we are the ones you immediately affected. right? it will be what you as the head of the, as i say, the head of the octopus. we are going to be the most impacted. we will suddenly be under martial law. and not only that solid guam, so it some more. so what all of these different like? no one's early meals are occupied. places that come under the us live in terms of philippines. and even places that are supposedly not that the west left, right. me was it doesn't leave town any, a bad an organizer with you buy a solution of native hawaiian organizations pricing and defensive russell was

a panelist during a discussion on red hill, the sovereignty event. she noted similar patterns by the us military across the pacific. i remember i remember that david, this is a friday 18, and 30 was our head of our board of water supply and he's been fighting this fight for a very long time. he came on the news and basically said that they're shutting down the wells that are tapped into this. i prefer a top of and that she's doing the fluid ever turn it back on the bed. it might not never come back on line again. i don't want this when he said that and with when we all, everybody was work. we're all talking about it. we're all having the safety. i should make an attempt to leave that. that just happened like how that happened and

and you know, she had so many others have been fighting this for a long time and really never get that off where for about it might and may never come back online. and so the threat of that has devastated national security has never been about us. it's national security is about securing american in for us and keeping the business lanes open. it's if this was about security, we'd have playing with our water wouldn't be threatened if this was about security would've never had, we would, we wouldn't be so occupied. we're actually target, right. so there's never been a real concern about hawaiian security or national security there. they allow false missile alerts, they allow all kinds of contamination. they bomb our sacred sites. this is not about national security. this is about a constant state of and security fund. who

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