is it polls so that he was the when not clearly was gearing up to challenge the results in court. but on the 19th of october, we've gotten his legal adviser and a spokesperson for the for the most part he was shot did in my brutal but then when protest is gathered at the side of the killings on the 21st of october security forces pushed back with a heavy hand firing live rounds at those protesters. the situation has been worse since that day. i'm misty international is calling on the government to stop it's violent, crack down on human rights and respect everyone's rights to freedom of expression. they also called onregional organizations such as the southern african development community and to the african union to take a firm stalls against the violations that we're seeing in mozambique. we do know at this moment that chairperson of the subject is in bucklin, presidents m as in golf law, as scheduled anniversary. this is search for mix,

read the meeting aims to address the escalating situation in was a beacon see, could to find some sort of resolution to the political crisis of his seeing. so clearly the international was suppose has also now become critical. we discussed the development side with the coordinator of the decide x, horrible monitoring platform who side have been in the day. one hopes that cool heads and diplomacy will end up prevailing for the most part of the people say he has to prove the summer radiation and the results of the bear. with some scroll, you see look at one of them. so we have so many questions to solve, and i think this is the illusion to, to people going to dispute didn't make this process so, so that some of them are the same, which is on c, d, results dated processing disputes have a simple thing to do with the president, you'll see just to just say, sorry,

put all these districts for all digits for chris is and it said that this is the most important. if you don't do this, the ok, we can put of simple stuff, get comfortable right now, but it didn't ask for it in maybe you associated with the same thing. so it's very important sites. this whole thing is it for the program is a rob only for right now. here we're not to you cuz we're on the stand by for the russian to 4 minutes to us. ok. allow for office to speak during the closing ceremonies of this rupture for companionship for in the southern and russian revised region of serious. so we're starting back for that when he goes live. so will we hope you can stick around the e o lea, no e. um, unique,

we love when i was a little girl as young as 5 years old. my mom took me to all of our families protests to fight for the return of our land called are to be in. and today it's proposed to be used as a buffer zone for a us marine by fire training range complex. it's being built above our islands primary water source that provides our community with 80 to 90 percent of our drinking water. so a buffer zone has an area that catches b straight points that work a shaft at the firing range. usually look on that cliffside on top of the class. that square firing range complex will be located or is proposed to be

located. we're still trying to fight it, so trying to put a stop to it. so yeah, the stray bullets from this far range, well dropped into this area and into the ocean. yeah, i just wanted to show you that. and then we're going to go into some family. our family is one of many families across squan who's ancestral lands were taken from them after world war 2, around 2 thirds of the island was actually seized by the us after the war. families would peacefully rented in for many years before it was condemned in the 60s for national defense purposes. and then in the ninety's, when the land was no longer needed, it was declared excess. it was supposed to be returned back to be original land owners. my family and 3 other families, but instead it was transferred to the federal government to become a fish and wildlife refuge. so in the 90s,

lineal descendants of blood tax and were told that they endangered species were more important than the land being returned. and now we're being told a firing range complex is more important than protecting the endangered species because it's being built over a conservation area. it's not just are the fishermen that are going to lose some of the best pristine waters around the entire island. it's not just our local feelers who won't be able to access forever. this little plants that can be found. 7 in this area, it's not just the 15 endangered species that call this place home. the turtles that nest here on the stands that come back every year that are going to be impacted at the center of this issue. there's some indigenous land rights issue, which more people were a peaceful people. we don't want our lands, we don't want our waters to be transformed into the largest military training area in the world. we just want to live peacefully on our islands. we want to be able to

keep our water clean, want to be able to preserve our fresh water officer for future generations. we want to protect our coastal waters from contamination from lead to us and other heavy metals that will fall into the water that will contaminate the san one's political status, as an unincorporated territory of the us is really at the heart of why it's tomorrow . people don't have a seat at the table to protect our resources in the midst of this mass military expansion. so we're here at the museum. this is the location of the offices of the commission on the quantization. and what this organization does is they look at the different political status options for guam independence, free association and statehood. and they understand the complex situation that we're in, in regards to our political status as an unincorporated territory of the us. so

we're going to speak today with the director melvin one pet or high, just excited to pick his brain to understand the ways that our political status impacts us as a colonized people to just mostly for meeting with us today. so 1st off, can you explain juan's current political status and our relationship with the united states? we are domestically a part of the united states, right? we, we, we operate within the system of government. but we are not privy to negotiations with other government entities with other government bodies. right. so the military build up here on guam essentially was a bilateral agreement between the us, federal government and the japanese government and guam. even though we are ultimately going to bear the burden of the build up, we were not

a part of any conversation negotiation around how this bill that was going to happen. anybody knows the history of the build up is basically that the united or the japanese government, which also colonized ok. now let's not forget, right? that ok now is not japan. those people are not japanese that they also, you know, have been dealing with a long legacy of colonial rule that you know, the, the, after the war the united states in japan became allies. part of that deal was that the united states would be allowed to have, you know, military presence in japan. but japan decided that they're not going to build this base in japan. they're going to build it in oak, you know. and so of course, you know, the, the base has a long history, the us marines have a long history of conflict with the local population. and so what we saw was that, you know, it became so problematic that, okay now, and we're just up in arms and very unified, you know, i mean they march and 90000 people in the street to close for 10 by our base. and

so of course, you know, the japanese government had to respond and that was how it all began right. they. they then began conversation negotiation with the united states on relocating the base. that was crazy about it is that the, the japanese government is putting a large part of the bill to not just remove the base from oak, you know, but to relocate that base here, a lot of people don't realize this, but in the draft environmental impact study for the build up, you know, they, they clearly say that there are other alternative locations for the building. you know, they were planning, they had planned to work with either hawaii, the philippines, or california to include one. but when they assessed those other 3 locations, those were all answered with a know in and the know comes from the leadership. i think most important part of it,

right, is that for california in hawaii as states, you know, they have the right to say, no, we don't want this. you know, we have connie l hey and marine corps base and hawaii. we have camp tenants in, in california. we don't want another base. we're good. and then you have the philippines, that sovereign nation. they said, yeah, yeah, well, we'll pass on that too because, you know, we're not going to do so the bay all over again. that table on the build up where they had the conversation happened around the terms that was negotiated between 2 parties with guam as an after thought they even said in their d. i s that because the philippines, california, and what you all were know, go that guam was the ideal location and it was because, and they said pretty bluntly like painfully blindly that they, they think alarm is the ideal location. because guam is what they consider, sovereign us soil and we're a territory. and because we don't have the same level of autonomy over our affairs

as a state, they can basically do whatever they want here with little to no interference from the local governments. and that's exactly what they got. so sabina pairs with a $36.00 palm legislature, shared similar sentiments about the us and japan. slack of consultation with guam about their military build up plans to transfer transfer the marines from ok now to bomb was made without form being at the table. and the militarization of guam, i think, is the dominant driving force in how development is occurring on our island. so a lot of the federal laws, us environmental federal laws have to be followed. but the problem is in its implementation, it involves the interaction between federal agencies which develop the regulations without the consent of the indigenous people. now, the military definitely has dismissed a lot of the concerns. and, you know,

seeing our, our cultural sites being a race before i is no c r for us being raised concerned about qualms, water resources, senator pears recently introduced legislation to recognize the sacred relationship between the tomorrow people and our water resolution 55 dash 36 highlights the very real threat of contamination to our primary uncle for from 6700000, but bullets proposed to be shot. the department of defense has by fire training range complex. yes. so 55 dash of these 36 was created. mainly because my, my concern about the, the live fire training range it's or it was meant to to reaffirm our, our, our rights to, to clean drinking water. and then how this range would it be impact would impact

our drinking water as well as our resources are coastal water resources. this is a time where, you know, i did not want to accept the fact that this far range but you know, there's still what a 5th fired range at is that was not constructed or is still in the process of being constructed. and it was so important for me to protect this area because it houses very unique, native flora and fauna. and one of them is a habitat to critically endangered species called the sir. yep. it's no sony i which is the husband longer training. there's only one reproductive trees on island and this is higher range would be a 100 feet away from that mother tree which is boston. ready which is what started typing, such as sharon, in typhon pamela, which were super taxes. in addition, it would stood world war 2. this tree has been standing, you know,

a form or 2. and so imagine now we're putting a fine range, a 100 feet from this tree that was said, all of that. and where they're going to shoot 6700000 bullets on yearly and perpetuity. and so, um and as far as is critical because it protects this tree, it's a, it's a habitat for the stream in addition to other critically endangered species such as been around a in spot butterfly. and so to me it's, it's a cultural symbol. and it's, it's really unfortunate that the endangered species act which protected the national single b u. s. the body and go from becoming extinct here it is. it's, it's being used to jeopardize a cultural simple for our island. and to me that's, you know, it's a breaches and it's important that we protect this for us. many to as president

of the guam fisherman's cooperative association sewer presents more than a 100 fishermen with boats has consistently spoken out against the firing range complex over the years. because of it impacts to water quality. you're going to have a foreign range on top of a water land. and you got a us, uh, a cave down there with fresh water pool underneath. you guys didn't know that. you have a containment area for you are i think that's when you were billed on the 5. you how? oh, over 10 nice thing. journals on uh hit option under concerned about a 3rd or you don't tomorrow's going to so so we need to protect it. but they're gonna do 50 caliber machine guns above their next thing area. and they're going to shoot up the euro line. one famous guy and want told me a many bomb down because they're shooting at targets. there's

a 50 caliber machine gun shooting a target. that last time i remember target and alice in the army. we were shooting at cardboard. and a 50 caliber machine gun bows anywhere from 4 to 6 miles in distance. it can conduct for one bullet inside a coconut tree and a half the every minute that's 50 caliber machine gun fires. if bush $45.00, you know, appreciate all the $1000000.00 conversion. 40 pounds, a projectile in the water is the most of the water in the world. and there's no real concern for a lot of quality. national grill concerned for noise pollution regarding the amount of bullets has been material. but know what to me is as a way to

a process that these are way dotted dies. there's no real concern for water quality . 900 football fields of land has been cleared for military build up projects and activists are concerned about the ways this will affect both the prefers the ability to recharge, as well as adversity effect coastal waters. i spoke of johnny ker, an activist environmentalist and science instructor who shared her thoughts on the mass clearings. and if we get rid of those for us, as it's possible that what we're doing is we're also getting rid of a way that water has been entering and recharging the arc with for, for thousands of years. so inside the substrate, we have these prefaces whole spaces, pathways for the water to move downward. and in search of that water we have the trees following with the routes. and so we have this very complex fruit system that

enables a pathway for water to get down to the aquifer or easily. and then if we couple that with, with pay the putting a building such as what's going to happen with the base and with the firing range, that actually leaves the surface and impermeable surface. my concern is that there is not going to be as much recharging of the, aka, for, uh, with uh, removal of the forest and that, and also that we might have contaminants making their way into the local marina environment either through um or their, uh, uh, a heavy metal, transportation, the rain or wind eventually getting into the limestone substrate and then making its way out into the ocean because we are, our aquifer is connected to the ocean. that's why we have these fresh water streams

of bobo, this kind that leach out into the ocean. i sat down with 2022 nobel peace prize, dominy hope christabel, who, for more than 35 years is organized across qualms and to use local government boards and commissions. working to protect qualms resources, and promote the try people's in a label right to self determination. crystal, the study of the effects of military contamination in qualms, lands and waters for decades. but i haven't seen or heard of anything in 20 years. where the people of why are asked to participate in any discussion of our, our state of being on our homeland. nothing that addresses colonialism, nothing that addresses, all right, in the ability to drive in this environment

that for 4000 years sustained our ancestors and, and our parents. nothing that addresses that nothing that addresses a way forward for a people to obtain their highest purpose in life. there's so for us, as a colonial people, you know, the united states has never really acknowledge the fact that we are a colonial people. they use other words to make us feel good, like we are a no territory, excuse me. how could we be a territory? you know, the meaning of somewhere in the territory use a sense of belonging. if we truly belong,

then why do they not care about the environment that has sustained us for 4000 years? you know, why do they not care for human lives? one has all 5 branches of the military were represented here and our basis to judge west and a s. yeah. what we call anderson air force space. now you have another base, you know, they're not really telling us the needs are based, but it, so no marine base that they're building when they start talking about controlling when they start talking about all these. and so high parts of a base. well, they're building a base, but they never, they always told us that it was for live fire range. and the out said, they base the t light to as well. the purpose is for cheering. talk over

1200 acres of forest. there is just, you know, you have this big military industry even since the only industry on this island, the only industry that one house is the military industry. and the military is payments for contaminating the ground, the air for contaminating the phone that we grow solely owned by whits. we plant in the, you know, eat, we shouldn't be wondering why counter is our 2nd highest kimler on this i'm we know it has to have come from this industry in looking and the prefer. today we know that most of the developments occurring up north. we know there's at

least a $122.00 municipal wells and some of those are monitoring wells. and northern guam lends prefer, is the soul of prefer for this island. but in the northern part of the island from loop all the way to pongo. and on the way to live tech gen and you know, the northern parts of our island. you fine, the uncle for that is not that deep down in there because the soil, which filters the any, any water intrusion into the, the ground is so been said the water that we end up with has to be kept clean. we have to prevent any other being filtering into the water lands and then i was informed about the dangers of the fine range complex. the how it would have heard of them are people not only the visitors,

but also the military, them military, and then their families say, today we're having a educational barriers and we're going to go down north. and then we're going to see refiners complex, our main that is leave with the fox. the toxins from the bullets is less let in the larger uh, portions honestly, i just want lifetime leave the other people. even if i have kids, my future generation, just to be safe timeframe, clean drinking water, water discussed with water to be then funded richard cheese and barely. and since we use $85.00 is 85 percent of our island uses is water. the it would not be such a small thing to get rid of. i feel like hiding the fact that from the bullets that would be left behind, which they said that they were clean up, which is funny. understand me really. i just want everyone to be

impacted by others and without impact. i just want all of us to collect together hopefully stop that filled up. these chemicals can travel the surface or ground water and contaminate groundwater along with coastal and marine resources. jim cheney a former director of environmental science associates referencing the 2012 us epa study says this. there is a wide range of chemicals that are left in the soil, many of which can be mobilized by rain and travel to ground water mobilized by rain and travel to the ground water studies light the us paper call into question the navy's to pose it conclusion that there will be no significant direct

or indirect impacts to our aquifer. we cannot afford as a people to move on without more data. the facts are clear, the risk is imminent. it is not to be debated. the facts are there. so what then is the cost that we're debating today, or what is the cost then of 170000 lives? what is the cost of 4000 years of history because we are not strangers to climate refugees here in my crenisha. we are not so far removed from the horrors of a post world war 2 posts atomic region to know what it's like for islands around us to become uninhabitable due to military activities. so what is the cost, and are you as our leaders or us people prepared to bear, bear the weight of it. one way the military says it will mitigate harm to the aquifer, is by installing monitoring wells with in the firing range complex. the monitoring miles being placed, i think that's an essential part of,

of ensuring that there's no contaminants coming out. but at the same time, we're not we're dealing with dealing with it after the fact. and we may, we need to ensure that it's, we need to prevent it from happening. first of all, the other issue that i'm seeing is that a lot of this monitoring is done by federal contractors. so we don't necessarily have access to the information in a real time basis. and that's one of the issues i'm seeing between the local and the federal side. is does the public really know what's going on? and so it's much later, you know, as you know, guam has been the side of a lot of topics, a legacy contaminants. and we're only finding out now if at all that they're there and that perhaps they were impacting or helps. and so with those monitoring those, you know,

whereas there's information going to be, is going to be provided to the public on, on a, in a regular basis. and, and that's one of the issues is how transparent can the military be with our community. and in regards to this, considering cancer is one of the leading cause of death island. so many of these contaminants are carcinogenic. all military operations have in some way, shape or form had an adverse impact on the environment that they do their business . it for guam, it's, you know, being uh for one being award of the federal government for lack of a better term. you know, we, we just don't, we don't have the chief necessary in order to protect our resources and none of our resources. you know, we've asserted that we have, we have identified as r, e z, our exclusive economic zone. 6 not recognized by the united states. you know,

there's a lot of things that happen around our waters around our borders that we have 0 control over. it doesn't matter whether you come from a 1st world, 3rd world, 5th world country. we all deserve clean water. basic human right. what about self determination? isn't that also a basic, inalienable human, right? an inherent human, right? an inalienable human, right? you know, isn't that also something that we shouldn't have taken from us fund? who can, that will not be in the, to not fun. who do we have to do? not fun. who rooms? he has a book. some of them on the

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