[van-announce] Public forum: Goldcorp, the corporate university & DTES gentrification

[Ivan D. Drury]

Public forum about Goldcorp, corporate education, and DTES gentrification:

"Hey Goldcorp, we don't want your dirty gold!" 
Monday October 25
7pm
SFU Harbour Centre
Room 7000 (7th Floor)

Speakers to include: Dawn Paley, independent journalist and founder of Vancouver 
Media Coop; Wendy Pedersen from CCAP; Myka Abrambson from the TSSU; and more.

A public forum and discussion about the corporatization of the university, the 
gentrification of the DTES, and the human and environmental crimes of the 
Vancouver mining giant, Goldcorp. 


In September the office of the SFU president announced that Canadian mining 
giant *Goldcorp* has donated $10million to the Woodwards based SFU branch… which 
has been rebranded "The Goldcorp Centre for the Arts."

A notorious environmental, human rights, and colonial criminal company, Goldcorp 
is facing federal criminal charges in Honduras and have been involved in legal 
battles in Argentina and Guatemala. The Inter-American Commission for Human 
Rights recommended that a Goldcorp mine in Guatemala be shut down because of 
widespread destruction and contamination of land and water affecting territories 
of at least 18 communities of the Maya people.

Goldcorp claims that they considered the welfare of the "depressed" Downtown 
Eastside and think they can be part of creating a "more sustainable future" 
there. But according to the Carnegie Community Action Project, the Woodwards 
project has had an immediate ripple effect of massive rent increases and 
gentrification. No one, not SFU's senior administration and certainly not 
Goldcorp ever asked if the mining corporation was welcome in the community, or 
at our school. Despite the rhetoric, the Goldcorp Arts Centre project is clearly 
something the University is doing to the neighbourhood, not with it.

For more info:

http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/blog/dawn/4695

http://www.straight.com/article-349701/vancouver/sfu-under-fire-accepting-10-million-goldcorp


"SFU should reject all donations from human rights abusers" 
http://www.the-peak.ca/article/21909

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SFU Against Goldcorp and Gentrification (SAGG)
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http://nogoldcorpsfu.wordpress.com 
antigoldcorp at gmail.com