[IPSM] Protest Newmont Mining-Denver, Colorado-04/25/06

[dustin johnson]

> Please spread the word.
>
> American Indian Movement of Colorado Press
> Statement
>
> Colorado AIM will stand in solidarity with
> indigenous peoples from around the globe on APRIL
> 25, 2006 at the Newmont International
> Headquarters, 1700 Lincoln St., Denver, CO, in a
> vigorous protest at Newmont’s annual
> shareholder’s meeting. Representatives from
> indigenous communities that have been adversely
> affected by Newmont will be arriving in Denver
> from Peru, Ghana, Western Shoshone, the Colville
> Indian Reservation in Washington State, and
> perhaps other locations.
>
> Colorado AIM condemns the actions of Newmont that
> destroy the water, earth and air through its
> operations in places such as Peru, Nevada, Ghana
> and Indonesia, but also in the territories of
> indigenous peoples in Mexico, Canada, Australia,
> Bolivia and the Philippines.
>
> Equally, we deplore and condemn the explorations
> and proposed operations of Newmont in the Black
> Hills of South Dakota, an area sacred to several
> indigenous nations of the Great Plains region. We
> also call on Newmont immediately to fulfill its
> responsibility to clean up radioactive uranium
> waste on the Colville Indian Reservation in
> Washington State.
>
> Indigenous peoples have been protecting their
> territories and water over the past several
> years, and they continue actively to confront the
> destructive practices of Newmont.
>
> · Last week, in Sumbawa, Indonesia, community
> members expressed their opposition to Newmont’s
> operations by setting ablaze a number of pieces
> of Newmont’s machinery, forcing the corporation
> to close its Batu Hijau Copper Pit until further
> notice.
>
> · Tens of thousand of indigenous people marched
> on Newmont’s operations at Yanacocha, Peru. These
> actions forced Newmont to cancel plans to expand
> its open pit mines to the sacred mountain of
> Quillish.
>
> · The Western Shoshone Nation (Nevada) recently
> received a victory at the United Nations
> Committee on the Elimination of Racial
> Discrimination. The decision called for an end to
> the collusion between the United States
> government and corporations such as Newmont, in
> the theft of Western Shoshone resources in
> violation of the 1863 Ruby Valley.
>
> The courage and integrity of native peoples
> around the world in resisting the eco-terrorism
> of Newmont is an inspiration to us in Colorado
> AIM. When representatives of these struggles come
> to Newmont’s international headquarters here in
> Denver, the source of the misery in their
> communities, we will welcome our relatives, and
> we will show them that they are not alone in
> their quests for environmental justice. We will
> call on local and state officials to demand
> responsibility from this corporate criminal in
> our midst.
>
> We will stand shoulder to shoulder in support of
> our indigenous relatives, and any people who
> choose love of earth and love of life, over love
> greed and love of profits.
>
> We intend to shine a bright light on Newmont and
> its destructive operations. We intend to hold
> Nemmont accountable for what it has done, and for
> what it continues to do.
>
> please visit www.stopnewmont.org to learn more
> www.coloradoaim.org/blog
>

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