FOE Media Release - Peter Munk, Chair of Barrick Gold Admits Liability for The Desecration Of Lake Cowal Sacred Site, Australia

At today’s Barrick Gold AGM held at the Convention Centre in Toronto, Neville ‘Chappy’ Williams, traditional owner of Lake Cowal and Western Shoshone delegates from Nevada successfully questioned the Barrick Gold Board of Directors during the live webcast.

Shareholders were amazed and concerned the interveners had traveled so far to raise their objections Peter Munk tried to explain why Barrick Gold shares continued their ‘disappointing’ decline in value whilst the mining industry is “drowning in liquidity” as …

(I just wrote a post on nowpublic.com about this, and it turned out good enough that I thought I’d erase what was here, and put that in its place - Ahni)

International day of action against Barrick Gold

Yesterday over a dozen events were organized around the world, in protest against the World’s largest Gold Mining company - Toronto-based Barrick Gold.

You can watch a two minute video (on youtube) about the outreach action at Barrick’s shareholder meeting in Toronto.

Today, there is likely over a thousand conflicts around the world

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From the WW4Report - On April 1 the community of Nuevo Carrizalillo, in Eduardo Neri municipality in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, signed a 22-point agreement with Salvador Garcia Ledesma, general operations director of the Luismin mining company, to end a blockade the community had maintained at the Los Filos-El Bedmejal gold mines at various times since Jan. 8. The company agreed to pay the community an annual rent of 13,500 pesos (about $1,234) for each of the 970 hectares of land used for the mines. Luismin also agreed to rehire 60 laid-off …

ALERT!! Please help protect Western Shoshone spiritual areas from Gold Mining - Sign the attached petition and forward to your friends and family.

Tell Barrick to Stop Mining on Sacred Grounds

What would you do if someone came onto your land and started drilling for gold?

It’s happening right now to the Western Shoshone people of Nevada. A mining company called Barrick Gold has been mining Shoshone lands without consent and is now expanding into Mount Tenabo and Horse Canyon, areas considered sacred to the Shoshone.

Even though the Shoshone have repeatedly protested these incursions and the UN stated last year …

On April 8th, around 80 people gathered at a Barrick Gold mine at Lake Cowal in central New South Wales and entered the mine, the offices, and chaining themselves to the machinery - grinding mining operations to a halt.

The next day, the police arrested 14 people at the site, charging them with entering “inclosed land”, under the obscure Inclosed Land Act of 1901.

From an April 9 Media Release on Save Lake Cowal:
Wiradjuri Traditional Owners have been holding convergences at Lake Cowal for a number of years …

Barrick Gold funds World Vision Canada “development” Projects
from www.rightsaction.org
April 1, 2007

RA re-circulates this Barrick Gold press release to open more critical debate concerning the multiple environmental and development harms, and human rights violations, caused by North American mining companies in many countries of the exploited global south.

BIG BUSINESS IS NOT “DEVELOPMENT”
By receiving money from a major global mining company, World Vision Canada legitimizes a global private business model of “development”. Apparently, World Vision Canada ignores the multiple environmental and development harms and human rights violations caused by numerous global mining companies.

This partnership between Barrick Gold and World Vision …

Press Release and Declaration by the Communities in Resistance in San Migual Ixtahuacan, San Marcos, Guatemala In the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, San Marcos, on March 7, 2007

TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION

We, members of the indigenous communities that live around the Marlin mine, owned by Montana Exploradora de Guatemala, a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational corporation GOLDCORP, declare as follows:

When the company arrived in our communities, they tricked us, taking advantage of our illiteracy and poverty. They promised us a variety of things: construction of health clinics in the communities, animal farms, small irrigation projects, houses, compensation for …

Protests Mount Against Mining Giant
Stephen Leahy, www.ipsnews.net
February 24, 2007

TORONTO, Feb 24 (Tierramérica) - Dangerous levels of lead and arsenic have been found in the blood of Honduran villagers living downstream from a controversial gold and silver mine owned by Canada’s Goldcorp Inc., the world’s third largest gold mining firm.

According to the ecologists who organised the study, lead and arsenic levels in the blood were higher than the maximum recommended by international standards (70 ug/dl) in a sample of 10 people who live near the San Martín mine, in San Ignacio, a municipality located in the central Siria Valley.

The study, …

May 3, 2006 - This statement was read at Glamis Gold’s Annual General Meeting. It was written by community representatives from regions of Honduras and Guatemala affected by the company’s mining operations. They were in Canada on an educational speaking tour with Rights Action.

Statement to Glamis Gold Shareholders from Honduras and Guatemala

Glamis Gold Ltd. Investors and Shareholders:

We, as inhabitants communities directly affected by Glamis Gold’s mining activities in Honduras and Guatemala, write this letter to you to inform you of the grave consequences your investments are having. Glamis Gold arrived in our Communities promising development and progress. However, the experiences …