only of the deep importance of water for our very survival, but shared the ways the water is embedded in our language and life waves. some about to get on the flight to sight 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 guam being impacted. there are just under a 1000000 square nautical 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 during 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 ordinance testing and training, and w sooner activities o c w 670 is kathy and i know discussed the groups efforts to de escalate militarization and conduct educational outreach and the marianas since we 1st started getting environmental impact statements back in late 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 in training and testing area which has expanded with all of our water resources around these islands. and it's really connecting a lot of the spaces between the i to further understand the impacts of the expansion i spoke with masters or m t, or a traditional healer. saying that donald men deal uh,

who suppresses 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 furniture. we want to give a water pure app and even the ocean has to be green. because we, we think our patients a mellow to the ocean, we make them base every day, right? to increase their rates or is ation of the pacific in depth. and that is going to affect it may not be tomorrow that up to 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 know when we don't want any. anybody coming out of the ocean with mashes or cancer is as, or as, or whatever do do a 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 the 11th human, because they have the my, they have the a and the, the name and don't send everything online, but then they get their protein. most of the protein from the ocean. we don't want any testified fish that we're going to take into or bothering him during the system to make us to mature counsel for need of tomorrow announcement president brianna have schneider in, parted with them about the importance of water to tomorrow, life ways and language for advocacy work stems from leaving the island to pursue higher education. them returning home to the realization that the interest 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 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 liked 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 know us or fair alonza mentioned earlier. it's jaime uninhabited island, north obama, less than 2 miles long and half a mile wide. the us military has been bombing espn for training purposes since 1971

. recently, a con, permission to dropped $4000.00 more explosives there every year, along with tens of thousands more around. so, but i mean, addition, if you go to western fisheries management and you know, those are the folks that look at our waters. 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, gather 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, their allies also practice there. you know, japan everywhere. i mean, anyone that have an ally, they want baptism, they drive, they fly, they're just 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 house, you know, our, our survival because our health is our survival, our, our foot, the footprint of the military footprint on how it does is 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 in fact and, and what certain degree of that impact is because i haven't seen enough or read, you know, on and, 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 of life, fire, and maneuver training bombing in the land waters. and aerospace and pug in and 10 in islands, north of guam in the commonwealth of the northern marianas. 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 comments 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 set about, you know, a lot of departments and agencies try to find a compromise between, you know, local indigenous interests and in the military. and you see 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 it because what it's doing is so much more permanent and so much more harmful by doing a compromises detrimental to the people who are most important,

which is the people here. i visited david hank and n o i who hawaii a senior attorney at or of justice who are presented to 10 in women's association guardians. have connie hogwash and the center for biological diversity in the last few challenging destructive sienna. my joint military training plans started proposing moving marines to guam. they were saying, oh, we can just continue with what we've been doing in the past. i'm 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. then after they made the decision to move the marines to guam, they come out with this draft environmental impact statement for the training. and then, or then barry on is that suddenly revealed that what they actually wanted to do was turn tinney and pa get into major war sounds. so on the island of penny, and it wouldn't just be limited to bullets. it would be more orders that are

tillery and there be ariel got ship sand. am cbs landings with damage? the coal reeves 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 ship 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 coggan antennae and after $27000.00 comments were submitted. as part of the national environmental policy act or a deep process, deeper requires federal agencies to examine the potential effects of their proposed actions on the human environments. revised plans for the northern mariano have yet to be released. it is definitely too soon to be popping any champagne over the changes when the marianas, because all we've seen so far is a press release from the governor of been or the mariana is 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 august and bombing 10 in are off the table. i mean,

this is one thing that my decades of litigation are against the military have taught 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? no, no, in the ukraine or ukraine, russia war situation and, and we're china. it sits, it's, it's, uh, it's making everybody nervous in the pacific. we should be the same rom, just don't you have to shape house the kind of thing and engagement because the trail when so many find themselves will

support, we choose to look for common ground. the for military and government officials have said plans for the northern marianas have been revised construction on a day for airfield in san in continues, which poses a threat to the tenants. primary offer near shore environment and the health of the general public whose main water source will be compromised by proposed fuel pipelines up and transport 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 the value it, especially with jet seal,

even if it was going to be buried in the ground. how 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 with this is already being polluted mail with applied flights that are going in and outright. they are proposing pipelines 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 their student, their stipend 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 from 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 australia and maybe california, maybe 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 transparent 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 tougher behind, as our community rallies in 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 is on water supply is started turning on the tops and their kitchen and it smells like a gas station. and people are getting sick and you know, and,

and been babies were getting rashes in the board and the 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 walk of water projectors, a group on the front lines of the red hill water crisis. also on the tour were members of rug nation, need of organizations centered around the liberation of indigenous peoples from colonialism and slow battery and environmental and social justice movements on the way to the gate of the us pacific fleet command county to franco. a lead organizer with all who are the protectors, spoke about how the communities please to shut down the road. hill field, thanks. 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 petroleum 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 in a 1000 people into the hospital. and they had to come forward and give it some kind of explanation because department of housing elders are demanding what is going on here. that's the only reason we even know that this bill occurred. the amazed bill was not made public dollars before that better that didn't happen. and so in early december, a coalition of black active is decided that something needed to be done. right. it was a difficult movement. there is nothing to physically block them. kids was occurring, you know, unfortunately, can physically make viewing happen. any thoughts or uh, 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 founding of spiritual gathering uh for the community to come together. uh,

and then distance associate by a wider um. and that is, you know, we're proceeding kindly here trying to buy a whole lot to do us that nourishment as a matter continued to. it's a fight at the gate as a token of solidarity, a offer and water from behind. start in coastline. every entity in currently under threat from the establishment of the us marine by fire training range complex ink. uh new. uh you got a new wow. one year. oh i go who. oh guy. yeah. yeah, no, no. the bag. oh, i hear what you know, are you navy security interrupted our visit to the co? uh is this in county land? no, i'm just stating okay. okay. what is your call is you guys go to face it that way. i can be on camera. and this is a new tony land, right?

but you gotta, you gotta 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 forget the defense for questions about the plan. so this the way this is this, the state of hawaii lan. yeah, we're gonna be leaving in a moment, but it just signatures diction down. you don't have jurisdiction here. so i don't want you to not you can go on and we're going to have that conversation. captain jeff miller, chief of staff of the us 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 have the best want me think that today or appreciate ever going yeah, yeah, always watch star away while we were doing our,

our pool in our prayer, you know, initially and the the cheapest stuff for the navy at pacific blue 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 um, 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 had understood already from doing activision on that i know on that occupied. i know that then in this particular moment, while this is still sovereign, wine kingdom land,

that this is also state and county land and the department of defense doesn't just have jurisdiction to be able to do whatever they want. they have to follow the rules of law, and then the moments you can tell us to leave. and so we had an introduction which i reminded him. you know, you can tell us to leave if you want to do something, you know, feel free to call the police, but we don't have to move because you're telling us to any follow it up. where's the problem 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 you 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 incentives

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 and 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 in and dated by military activision. 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 i know it's early. the meals are occupied, places that come under the us live in case of the philippines and even places that are supposedly not that the west left right. me was doesn't leave town any, a bad, an organizer with you buy a solution of native hawaiian organizations pricing and defensive red hill was

a panelist during a discussion on red hill at the sovereignty event. she noted similar patterns by the us military across the pacific. i remember i remember that david, this is a friday, i think and 30 those are 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 are shutting down the wells that are tapped into this. i prefer a top of and that he didn't know if we were ever turn it back on that it might not ever come back on line again. i don't want at this point and 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 like to make a tough believe that that just happened like how good 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 of her back. 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 played our wire, wouldn't be threatened if this was about security would have never had we would, we would be so occupied. we're actually target. all right, so there's never been a real concern about hawaiian security or national security. there they allow false missile alerts, they allow of all kinds of contamination. they bomb our sacred sites. this is not about national security. this is about a constant state of and security. a son who

said that will not be in the, the, to not fun. who do we have to do? not fun. who room? he has a look them done on the 1898 of the united states won the war again, spain and gain control of the philippines. the people of the philippines held that the americans would help over throw spanish rule and grand independence to the country. but the united states was by no means willing to give freedom to the

philippines and sides as just another colony. 1999, the filipinos began armed resistance to the new occupier of american troops were barely able to occupy the territory of the philippine republic. but that patriot started a desperate darell of war. washington was forced, as in new reinforcements and triple the number of its troops on the islands. the u . s. army suffered heavy losses. the americans took 8 out of the population, general jacob smith, in revenge for the guerrilla attack on the garrison in the city of fall on ega. porter to kill everyone over 10 years old. the monstrous gulf of terror, according to the most conservative estimates, led to the death of about 200000 philippine notes. the americans managed to suppress the gorilla as only 14 years after the beginning of the war. but the united states was not able to stop the national liberation,

struggle of the filipino peoples in 1946. after the decades of the dramatic ordeal, the philippines was finally able to achieve the independence. the if you think about russia, what does your mind to picture the landscapes open up before your eyes? the last one does, can you imagine the, the discounts dodge the journey? the,

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