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Syndicate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq5wA0XGrEg
"RADIUS GOLD, whose head offices are at Suite 650, 200 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Tel: (604) 801-5432 ,is one of sseveral Canadian mining companies involved in violent confrontations with locla residents in Guatemala in the past few years. Other include Vancouver's Goldcorp, Tahoe Resources and Toronto's Hudby resources. Most enjoy large investments from the Canadian Pension Funds a(CPP) nd union-employer funds such as Ontario's Teachers and the BC Investment Management Corporation (manages pensiosn for memebrs of the BCTF, CUPE and the BCGEU)."
I wish I understood Spanish?, I would have liked to hear what was being said in the youtube vid. I wonder, do members of large pension funds ever vote on whether to invest, or not, based on ethical considerations.
Our Vancouver based mining companies are exploiting and pillaging communities all over the globe. They are facilitated in their immoral undertakings by the misnamed free trade pacts. Good old fascinated imperialism at its best. Mind you in Canada a uranium company that wanted to explore and develop on a FN homeland didn't need to shoot the FN's elected leaders that opposed their project. Our democratic system is far less brutal they were merely jailed for 6 months for disobeying a court order.
http://www.mining.bc.ca/facts_canada.htm
And Guatemala was made fit for the corporatocracy by a series of U.S.-backed dictators receiving military and financial aid from vicious empire central in Washington. Central America was once a large concentration camp run by despots and thugs with support from the Reaganauts and through George I. Brutal right wing dictatorships friendly to Canadian and other mining companies were only ever possible as a result of support from Washington, the US Military and its infamous university for assassins and torturers, School of the Americas/WHINSEC still operating with impunity and churning out graduates even today.
Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug gangs U.S.-backed dictators and thugs are rarely if ever brought to justice.
Claudia Paz y Paz has a tough battle ahead of her. Like thousands of Nazi and other WW II era criminals embraced by the west, Juan Efrain Rios Montt will likely live out the remainder of his life in the lap of luxury before he is ever forced to admit to the world his crimes against humanity. Justice delayed is justice denied.
Canadian mining firms confront new wave of Latin American nationalization
excerpt:
She argued the growing trend of nationalization is likely a response to "rising prices for commodities in the mining sector," and "increased awareness at just how much countries are getting ripped off."
Canadian mining giants destroy nature and Indigenous communities in Mexico
http://rabble.ca/news/2012/07/canadian-mining-giants-destroy-nature-and-indigenous-communities-mexico
Oaxaca, Mexico - For over two decades in many parts of Mexico, large corporations -- mostly foreign owned but usually with wealthy Mexican partners -- have developed huge projects in rural areas. Called mega-projects, the mines and resource extraction efforts take advantage of economic reforms and trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement.
excerpts:
Killed for opposing Canadian-owned mining projects
Mines ruin communities' water
Goldcorp destroys ecosystems
Mexico's government serves mining interests
Guatemala’s highest court to hear landmark indigenous challenge against mining law
http://www.miningwatch.ca/news/guatemala-s-highest-court-hear-landmark-indigenous-challenge-against-mining-law
Source: Western Peoples Council (CPO) - Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - MiningWatch Canada
(Washington D.C./Guatemala City) Today, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the 1997 mining law for failure to consult with the country’s indigenous peoples who make up more than half the population. The lawsuit, filed by the Western Peoples Council (CPO), contends that both national and international law require that the government consult with indigenous peoples before approving policies with significant impacts on their territories.
excerpt:
In eastern Guatemala, in the municipality of El Estor, the dispute over the Fénix nickel mine has led to three lawsuits against HudBay Minerals in Canadian courts, arising from the rape of eleven women during a violent eviction of the community of Lote Ocho in January 2007, and the murder of community activist Adolfo Ich and wounding of Germán Choc in September 2009.
Near the capital city, community members from the municipalities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc are sustaining a now four-month blockade against the entry of Vancouver-based Radius Gold.
All major parties in Canada now support "free trade." The NDP position seems to be primarily about labour standards and ignores the indigenous people's claims if they are not "legal" rights only moral ones.
In Canada we arrest FN's leaders for opposing development on their territories and have jailed a whole Band counsel for trying to stop mining exploration. They didn't have "legal" rights so off to jail they went. It's not surprising our Canadian mining firms are doing the same everywhere free trade deals give them enhanced corporate rights.
Bill C-323 Pass the Bill Info
PASS the damn bill, you fascist basteds.
More on this from a travelling forum about Canadian mining corporations and their destruction and repression amongst Mayan communities in Guatemala: Lolita Chavez, spokesperson for the Ki'che Peoples' Council, speaking out despite her shock at the killing, capture and torture of her comrades, the day before she spoke in Québec City.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Canadian+invasion+Guatemala+mines+ca... (The Gazette has a subscription wall)
In French: http://www.reseauforum.org/grille-calendrier/node/7167
In English, Spanish and French:
http://defenddissenttour.wordpress.com
Poster: Indigenous resistance North and South http://defenddissenttour.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/affiche-colloque-mo...
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