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TUESDAY MAY 11, 4PM PST / 7PM EST
FACEBOOK LIVE IN SPANISH
REGISTER FOR SIMULTANEOUS ENGLISH INTERPRETATION ON ZOOM
Dear Friends,
Join us for a virtual forum on Tuesday, May 11 to hear from frontline communities and organizations in Latin America who have lived or observed the arrogant disregard of peoples’ rights, lasting environmental disasters, and forced displacement to make way for mining projects backed by Ross Beaty, Vancouver-based Pan American Silver’s founder and outgoing chairman.
WITH PARTICIPATION FROM:
Cooperacción, Peru
Member of the resistance to mining in Chubut, Argentina
Xinka Parliament of Guatemala
Community members from La Colorada, Zacatecas, México
Mexican Network of Mining Affected People (REMA), México
Shuar Arutam People (PSHA), Ecuador
Community member from Aurizona, Brazil
Ross Beaty will retire as chairman of the board of Pan American Silver - a company that he founded in 1994 - at the company’s Annual General Meeting the day after our event. Beaty is considered Canadian mining-industry royalty, given the millions of dollars he has raised for himself and shareholders. He has also constructed a public image as an environmentalist, philanthropist and leader in corporate social responsibility. None of these portrayals are true to the legacy of community harm and environmental destruction that Beaty’s investments have wrought in Latin America.
With support from: Allard Centre for Law and the Environment – University of British Columbia, B.C.Casa/Cafe Justicia - Vancouver, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Comité pour les droits humains en Amérique Latine (CDHAL) - Montreal, Common Frontiers, Earthworks, EJAtlas, Guatemala Scholar Activists - University of California, Berkeley, Institute for Policy Studies - Global Economy Project, Inter Pares, Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network, Mining Justice Action Committee - Victoria, Mining Justice Alliance - Vancouver, UBC Students for Mining Justice - Vancouver, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network - Toronto, MIGRANTE B.C., MiningWatch Canada, Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Social Justice Fund, Rights Action, United Steelworkers,Victoria Central America Support Committee
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