[antiwar-van] SAT & MON: Anti-mining campaign - Pacific Rim vs. the people of El Salvador

[Tamara Hansen]

Anti-mining campaign: Pacific Rim vs. the people of El Salvador 

BENEFIT DINNER/CONCERT, PICKET ACTION, FREE PUBLIC FORUM 

These events are being organized or co-sponsored by Vancouver-based Community Organizations: CODESES: Committee to Support Social Development in El Salvador; Solidarity Coalition for a United Latin America; Vancouver Support Group for Radio Cadena Mi Gente, RAICES Latin American Cultural Society* and other Vancouver Latin American groups and students. 

For more info about any of these events, please call 778-883-6161 or 604-715-2979. 

*1* CUTUMAY CAMONES: LIVE BENEFIT CONCERT/DINNER 
SATURDAY Oct. 17 
6PM-10PM 
St. Mary's Anglican Hall 
2490 West 37th Ave (at Larch) 
Tix $15 (includes dinner and drink - veggie options available) 

All proceeds will go directly to community organizing group "La Mesa" in El Salvador. 
Through this concert, we are hoping to share the beauty of traditional Salvadoran music with the iconic group Cutumay Camones to highlight the theme of resistance through culture, an important aspect of Latin American culture, while educating Canadians about the anti-mining social justice movement in El Salvador. A short video clip will also be played. 

If you are interested in knowing more about this issue, click here: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4118 

To hear some samples of Cutumay Camones music , click here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2265 


*2*PICKET ACTION AT PACIFIC RIM HEAD OFFICES 
MONDAY Oct. 19 
2-4pm 
Pacific Rim Head Offices 
625 Howe Street (at Dunsmuir) 


*3*FREE PUBLIC FORUM:
PACIFIC RIM AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF EL SALVADOR 

Part of the 'Si a la Vida' speaking tour against Canadian mining in El Salvador 
http://www.sialavidatour.com 

MONDAY October 19, 2009 
7-9PM 
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1900
515 West Hastings Street (at Richards) 

Forum will include: 
-a showing of "Gold, Impunity, and Violence in El Salvador" 
-special guests Bernardo Belloso and William Castillo - representatives from "La Mesa" to speak about their first-hand experiences in the anti-mining movement in El Salvador 
-a live video-internet confernce from El Salvador with Miguel Rivera, brother of murdered activist Marcelo Rivera 
-representatives from Northern BC First Nations communities facing similar struggles with mining on their indigenous lands 

This public forum is being organized to raise awareness about how mineral consumption and support for Canadian mining companies such as Pacific Rim, negatively affects the social and cultural fabric of the local populations in El Salvador as well as the negative environmental impacts, particularly because much of the capital behind the proposed mining projects in El Salvador is based right here in Canada. We seek to strengthen linkages and solidarity support between Canadian and Salvadoran environmental, social, and cultural activists and to demand that: 

-Pacific Rim withdraw its arbitration proceedings against the government of El Salvador under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) particularly because Canada is not part of that accord but Pacific Rim is able to do so through its' U.S. subsidiaries. We believe this is unjust and sets a dangerous precedent for the sovereignty of other Latin American nation-states. 
-To ask Canadians to pressure the Canadian government to pass legislation that regulates the behaviour of Canadian mining corporation at home and abroad - Bill C-300 
-To demand that all Canadian mining corporations withdraw their operations from El Salvador so that sustainable development can occur without the threat of environmental degradation. 

Please visit these links for more info on this issue: 

http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/urgent-action-threats-and-violence-against-community-leaders-caba-el-salvador 

http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/bill-c-300-corporate-accountability-activities-mining-oil-or-gas-corporations-developing-countries




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