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NISGUA
Spring 2008 West Coast Tour
Tour
Speaker: Fausto Valiente
This spring, NISGUA will host Fausto Roberto
Valiente de León of the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE) to
speak about community struggles against toxic open-pit mining in
Fausto will describe the devastating affects of mining
on rural communities and will address the role of international actors and the
neoliberal model in facilitating the entry of Northern mining companies in
The Marlin Mine is a gold and silver extraction
project of the Canadian and
The organization COPAE monitors the health, social,
and environmental effects of the Marlin Mine and supports community efforts to
exert their right to autonomy against transnational corporations and create
locally determined economic alternatives for development. COPAE has
accompanied communities throughout the referendum process in Sipakapa and other
forms of resistance in San Miguel Ixtahuacán.
As the people affected by the Marlin Mine continue to
defend their rights, NISGUA is organizing a solidarity campaign to draw
international attention to the issue and to pressure Gold Corp to respect the
demands of Guatemalan communities. Fausto’s tour is an essential step in this
campaign, as it will include actions around the Gold Corp annual shareholder
meeting in
TOUR SCHEDULE
May 1-3,
May 4-7,
May 8-13, SF Bay Area
May 14,
May 15-17,
May 20-21,
Please contact Jillian Tuck at jillian@nisgua.org for more information about tour events and/or to organize an additional tour stop.
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