[van-announce] Rally for public education and against mining giant Goldcorp

[Ivan D. Drury]

TELL THE SFU BOARD OF GOVERNORS TO PUT GOLDCORP BACK ON THE TABLE!
Thursday January 27, 3pm at SFU Vancouver 
 
Say no to Goldcorp! Keep our education public and open! 

How SFU can accept money from a corporation whose controversial mining projects 
have allegedly carried out human rights violations and caused negative health 
impacts on communities in both North American and the global south? Why does the 
SFU Administration think it can make decisions for the Downtown Eastside 
community? Why SFU is not demanding for funds to the provincial and federal 
governments? Why is SFU not listening to our concerns?

For four months now we, SFU students, staff, faculty, and residents of the 
Downtown Eastside communtiy have been asking that Goldcorp be put on the agenda. 
We have worked with campus groups writing letters, giving talks, attending 
meetings, publishing editorials, and filing motions. We have tried to work with 
the University administration, but they have shut us down.

On January 27th, we are going to demand that the SFU administration put the 
Goldcorp donation and SFU's handling of DTES funds on the table. We encourage 
you to join us us in making the SFU Board of Governors accountable for their 
actions and the impact of those actions on local and international communities. 


Please sign on to our list of demands by January 27th, 2011 by emailing 
antigoldcorp at gmail.com and come make your voice herad


SFU Against Goldcorp and Gentrifcation
www.nogoldcorpsfu.wordpress.com
antigoldcorp at gmail.com

Our Four Demands

1) That SFU remove Goldcorp’s name from all SFU buildings and projects

2) That SFU administration develop procedures to give low-income Downtown 
Eastside (DTES) residents control over all SFU DTES campus developments. SFU 
administration must not decide for DTES residents how to spend the $5 million 
earmarked for DTES ‘development’ by Goldcorp. The use of this money must be 
directed by DTES organizations with elected resident boards.

3) SFU must not accept funding from corporate human rights abusers like 
Goldcorp. We demand that the current backroom process for seeking and accepting 
private donations be replaced with a transparent and accountable policy to be 
developed by SFU students and faculty and the SFU union community.

4) Finally, we recognize that the problems of corporate funding in the 
university are generated by the erosion of public education by all levels of 
government. We demand that SFU administration advocate to put the public back in 
public education. And we demand full provincial and federal government funding 
for public education.