seeing i was born and kamarck up to twenty thought tobar day one thousand nine hundred two know your birth date me i lived most of my life in the universities and i was taught to learn from cement schoolrooms about our brother the nature you know up in there with a lot of his who meant us you know i couldn't do that one of those days for. you a little but the racial scene. when i was first again as a priest on literacy and i had the privilege of living in park on the input one of barrow's poorest communities over the top of your city. you. if you're living. in university they don't teach you that the earth has eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your earth cries we set out to convert the poor of us with them and we ended up being converted the farmers have worshiped the mountains for centuries the mountains provide water and water is life. but newcomers have arrived from a different world for them mountains are gone and gold this money. we. really believe you know d

this same plaza was the setting for one of kamarck us most famous battles the conquest of south america again here five hundred years ago. a small band of spanish invaders request a meeting with the income ruler to while. the spaniards promised they'd come in peace but it's a trial. they kidnap the nka and hold him for ransom. followers still one room with gold and two with silver for his release. but the spaniards execute out a while back and claim his empire of the spanish throughout. today america is once again the stage for a battle over doul. being a. common ordinary people. just defending our water that it was or that i did it when i. ask of the government is that they leave us in peace. that they don't touch the water we need for our crops and animals. but at the government because this is our livelihood. i was five i think. the blockade is in its second week and every day more people join us john. callahan america declares a general strike against the mine. as we started developing the american company newmont is the majority shareholder and i began a couch a mile with a new mon