[Indigsol] Thurs, May 13 - Community & Indigenous Resistance to Harmful Cold Mining in Guatemala & Honduras - Rights Action Speaking Tour

Mon May 10 14:28:00 PDT 2010

Hello everyone,

Please come and participate in a talk IPSMO is sponsoring, which will host
members of Indigenous communities affected by Goldcorp, Inc. a Canadian
mining corporation in Guatemala and Honduras.

The presentation is this Thursday, May 13th at 7pm at 233 Gilmour St.,
ottawa. Please see following invitation and spread the word!

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RIGHTS ACTION SPEAKING TOUR -
COMMUNITY & INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO HARMFUL GOLD MINING IN GUATEMALA &
HONDURAS

DATE: Thursday, May 13, 2010
TIME: 7:00 pm
WHERE: JK Wylie Boardroom, PSAC Building, 233 Gilmour St., Ottawa,
ALGONQUIN TERRITORY

FEATURING SPEAKERS:
Javier de Leon, from Guatemala;
Carlos Amador, from Honduras;
Karen Spring, Canadian with Rights Action in Guatemala-Honduras.

JAVIER de LEON: Javier is a Mayan Mam community leader from the village of
Maquivil, municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, department of San Marcos.
>From his small home, he looks across at Goldcorp’s ever expanding
open-pit, cyanide-leaching gold mine – the “Marlin” mine. Since 2004,
Javier has been educating and organizing Mayan Mam communities and working
to resist and demand justice for the health and environmental harms and
human rights violations caused by Goldcorp’s mine.

CARLOS AMADOR: Carlos is a teacher and community leader in El Porvenir, 15
kilometres from Goldcorp’s open-pit, cyanide-leaching gold mine – the “San
Martin” mine. Since 2000, Carlos has been educating and organizing local
communities in the Siria Valley, and working to resist and demand justice
for the health and environmental harms and human rights violations caused
by Goldcorp’s mine.

KAREN SPRING: Karen is from Ontario, Canada. With Rights Action since
early 2009, she lives and works in Honduras and Guatemala.

RESISTANCE TO HARMFUL MINING:

Since 2000, Rights Action has been supporting and involved with struggles
related to Goldcorp Inc’s open-pit, cyanide-bonding mines in Honduras and
Guatemala, and related to HudBay Mineral’s nickel mine (formerly owned by
INCO and then Skye Resources) in Guatemala. (At
http://www.rightsaction.org, there is extensive information about health
and environmental harms and human rights violations linked to these mines
and companies.)

The speakers will give first hand testimony, and show photos and
documentary films, of the environmental and health harms and human rights
violations caused directly and indirectly by Goldcorp’s mines in Guatemala
and Honduras. With Karen as a co-speaker, they will focus critical
attention on Canadian government, corporate and investor policies, as
build up to Goldcorp’s annual shareholder meeting in Toronto, on May 19th.

DONATIONS TO SUPPORT GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT IN HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA

We will also accept donations at this event and contribute the funds
towards the over-all costs of having the speakers from Honduras and
Guatemala to come to Canada. All profits from this fund raising will go to
the community based organizations that Rights Action supports and works
with in Honduras and Guatemala.

RELATED TO THE TALK:

Someone Else’s Treasure – Guatemala -
http://allan.lissner.net/someone-elses-treasure-guatemala/
CTV’s “W5” program: “ARE CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES GIVING US A BAD
REPUTATION ABROAD?” -
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100415/w5_paradise_lost_100415/20100417?s_name=W5.
In it, W5 focuses critical attention on the harmful impacts of Goldcorp
Inc’s gold mine in Mayan Mam communities, and HudBay Mineral’s nickel mine
in Mayan Qeqchi communities.
Birarpatch Magazine - May/June 2010: Canada and the World -
http://briarpatchmagazine.com/mayjune-2010-canada-and-the-world/
Defending Land, Life & Dignity, WOMEN FROM MINING AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
SPEAK OUT - http://drop.io/DefendingLandLifeDignityWomenSpeakOut

** This event is supported by:

Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN),
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO),
Ontario Public Interest Research Group – University of Ottawa
(OPIRG-Ottawa)
Territorio Libre
Public Services Alliance Canada National Solidarity Fund
MiningWatch Canada

and The Ottawa-Gatineau Coalition against Gold Mining in El Salvador:
Amanecer Ranchero FM 89.1
Amnesty International, Business and Human Rights Program
Breaking the Silence
Christian Hispanic Community of Emmanuel United Church
Committee for Human Rights in Latin America (CDHAL)
Emmanuel United Church
FMLN Ottawa-Gatineau
Magazine Vision Latina
MiningWatch Canada
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Social Justice Fund
Rights Action
Salvadorian Canadian Association of Ottawa and National Capital Region
(ASCORCAN)
Salvadorian Women’s Committee of Ottawa-Gatineau
Salvaide
School of Political Studies of the University of Ottawa
Territorio Libre

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120686004624849

Also:
Sat May 15, 2:00 pm - Conference and Discussion - Canadian Mining
Companies: Leaders in Health and Environmental Destruction?
Simard Hall (SMD), room 425
60 University Private, Ottawa
Presented by The School of Political Studies and the Coalition Against
Gold Mining in Latin America of Ottawa - Gatineau -
territoirelibre at yahoo.ca

Mon May 17, 6:00pm – Deh Cho First Nation “Fighting For Our Land” film &
discussion – PSAC boardroom, 233 Gilmour (at Metcalfe) –
ebianchi at kairoscanada.org -
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/deh-cho-fighting-for-our-land/

Wed May 19, 7:00pm – “You Are On Indian Land” Akwesasne’s Land Struggles
Past and Present – Exile Infoshop 256 Bank St (2nd floor) at Cooper [sorry
this venue is not wheelchair accessible] – ipsmo at riseup.net -
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/you-are-on-indian-land/

Yours,
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa,
ALGONQUIN TERRITORY
http://www.ipsmo.org

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