IMPACTED COMMUNITIES SPEAKING TOUR May 7th, 2011 |
It is shareholder's season once again, and for mining-impacted communities all over the world that means it is time to confront Canadian corporations at these companies' annual general meetings. It also means that impacted communities are converging in Canada to share their truth and make alliances to help them hold these corporations accountable! Join us for the...
IMPACTED COMMUNITIES SPEAKING TOUR Show your support with impacted communities from Barrick Gold. May 9th: Hamilton, Skydragon Centre, 27 King William, 6pm-9pm
May 10th: Kitchner-Waterloo, Great Hall, Student Life Center, University of Waterloo, 5-7pm
May 11th: London (6pm), 505 Dundas St, Cross Cultural Learner Centre, meeting room C, 6pm
May 12th: Outer Toronto Area, High School Conference (invite only) May 13th: Kingston, Grey House 51 Bader Lane Kingston, 6pm May 15th: Montreal, 2110 Centre, 2110 Mackay, 4pm If interested in meeting up with tour participants, e-mail protestbarrick@gmail.com JOIN THE RESISTANCE TO END CORPORATE IMPUNITY! WHO IS BARRICK GOLD? Barrick Gold is the world's largest gold mining company, founded and chaired by Peter Munk. With a former Prime Minister on their board and former executives sitting on the board of the Canadian Pension Plan, Barrick enjoys government funding and diplomatic support. WHY PROTEST BARRICK? Barrick Gold takes advantage of inadequate and poorly enforced regulatory controls to rob Indigenous Peoples and communities of their land and livelihoods, destroying sensitive ecosystems, supporting brutal military and security operations, and suing anyone who dares to report on it. Impacted communities are coming to Toronto to confront Barrick, sharing their own undeniable perspectives and shedding light on the ongoing corporate impunity. MAKE THE TRANSFORMATION AWAY FROM GOLD EXTRACTION! WHY? With the majority of gold used for jewelry or to store wealth and the majority of gold extraction destruction on Indigenous lands around the world. It is time to question humans ongoing obsession with gold. HOW? Through
reduction, recycling and reuse of gold there can be a halt on new and
expanding gold mining explorations and operations around the world. Information about presenters: Jethro Tulin: Jethro has been organizing within and outside the Barrick�s Porgera mine since its inception (then owned by Placer Dome). In 1989, he registered Porgera�s first mine workers union and became its first secretary. Years later, Tulin returned to Porgera to find the situation worse and thus founded the Akali Tange Association (ATA), a human rights organization documenting abuses at the Porgera mine in Papa New Guinea � a mine owned by Toronto�s Barrick Gold. Mark Ekepa: Mark is the chairman of the Porgera Alliance and the Porgera Landowners Association, which represents the original people of the land that is now occupied by Barrick's Porgera Gold Ming in Papua New Guinea. Sakura Saunders: Sakura Saunders is an organizer for ProtestBarrick.net, an all-volunteer online network of groups researching and organizing around mining issues, particularly involving Barrick Gold. It contains news articles, testimonies, and backgrounders about Barrick�s operations worldwide. Ms. Saunders came to Protest Barrick as an independent journalist and activist, whose radio/tv work has appeared on Democracy Now! and Sprouts radio and whose writing is published regularly on CorpWatch.org and The Dominion paper in Canada. Every year, Sakura organizes a tour of impacted communities in Canada, to learn from each other�s campaigns as well as bring their stories to Barrick�s shareholders, Parliament, the public and the UN. Sakura also co-founded the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network in Toronto which focuses on creating a platform for mining-impacted communities to share their stories in Toronto. Sakura will be showing video and providing background for other communities that were not able to join this tour due to having their visas repeatedly denied. More info: http://protestbarrick.net/ M 647-838-8455 :: E protestbarrick@gmail.com JOIN US on our social networks: http://facebook.com/protestbarrick http://twitter.com/stopbarrick http://youtube/waysofseeing SUPPORTED BY: http://protestbarrick.net/ :: http://porgeraalliance.net/ ::http://savelakecowal.org/ :: http://munkoutofuoft.wordpress/ ::http://foei.org/ :: http://leat.or.tz/ :: http://foe.org.au/ ::http://macec4marinduque.multiply.com/ :: http://lrcksk.org/ ::http://solidarityresponse.net/ :: http://ejtoronto.wordpress.com/ ::http://cupe.on.ca/doc.php?subject_id=253 |
