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Protect the Valle de San Felix in Chile from Barrick Corporation who wants to remove two important glaciers to get to the gold. At stake is the water and indigenous farmers who rely on it for their livelihood.
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From: Laura Fillmore
To: Lee Dazey ; ultrayouthag COOPERATIVE COMMUNIVERSITY ; Joe Ferguson
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:20 AM
fyi: please forward--its Barrick Gold, the desecrators working on Carrie Dann's valley now--at work in Chile.
yours,
laura
From: "Lois kane" lkane@rsic.org
Date: July 20, 2006 11:06:15 AM PDT
To: " Reno-Sparks Indian Colony"
Help for Indigenous Chilean Peoples - help if you can
Dear friends who care about our earth.
Judge for yourself if you want to take action. In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2 glaciers. Water is a most precious resource, and wars will be fought for it. Indigenous farmers use the water, there is no unemployment, and they provide the second largest source of income for the area. Under the glaciers have been found huge deposits of gold, silver and other minerals. To get at these, it would be necessary to destroy the glaciers - something never conceived of in the history of the world – and to make 2 huge holes, each as big as a whole mountain, one for extraction and one for the mine's rubbish tip. The project is called PASCUA LAMA. The company is called Barrick Gold. The Chilean Government has approved the project to start this year, 2006. The only reason it hasn't started yet is because the farmers have got a temporary stay of execution. If they destroy the glaciers, they will not just destroy the source of especially pure water, but they will permanently contaminate the 2 rivers so they will never again be fit for human or animal consumption because of the use of cyanide and sulphuric acid in the extraction process. Every last gram of gold will go abroad to the multinational company and not one will be left with the people whose land it is. They will only be left with the poisoned water and the resulting illnesses. The farmers have been fighting a long time for their land, but have been forbidden to make a TV appeal by a ban from the Ministry of the Interior. Their only hope now of putting brakes on this project is to get help from international justice.
The world must know what is happening in Chile. The only place to start changing the world is from here. We ask you to circulate this message amongst your friends in the following way. Please copy this text, paste it into a new email adding your signature and send it to everyone in your address book. Please, will the100th person to receive and sign the petition, send it to;
nopascualama@yahoo.ca
to be forwarded to the Chilean Government. No to Pascua Lama Open-cast mine in the Andean Cordillera on the Chilean-Argentine frontier. We ask the Chilean Government not to authorize the
Pascua Lama project to protect the whole of 3 glaciers, the purity of the water of the San Felix Valley and El Transito, the quality of the agricultural land of the region of Atacama, the
quality of life of the Diaguita people and of the whole population of the region.
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1) Katharine Proudfoot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2) Laura Cole, London, UK
3) David Platt, London, UK
4) Diane Platt, Manchester, UK
5) Tanya Corker, Manchester, UK
6) Nicola Hargreaves, UK
7) Nicholas Jones, UK
8) Johann Don-Daniel, Germany
9) Ashley Berger, Germany
10) Sarah Downie, Leeds, UK
11) Paula Delahunty, Bingley, UK
12) John O'Driscoll, Bingley, Uk
13) Jordan-Lee Delahunty, Bingley, UK
14) Claire Mulvey, Bradford, UK
15) Marie Malcolm Bradford, UK
16) Ann Clowes, Halifax UK
17) Jayne McGee, Brighouse UK
18) Jason Barratt Oldham UK
19) Lindsay Torrance, Rochdale UK
20) Maggie Ford, Rochdale, U.K.
21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, U.K.
22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, U.K.
23) Lisa Stuart, Potes, Spain.
24) Michael Stuart, Potes, Spain.
25) Renee Engl, Byron Bay, Australia
26) Adrian Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia
27) Riana Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia
28) Oriel Paterson, Brunswick Heads, Australia
29) Alicia Paterson, Brisbane, Australia
30) Lyneve Robinson, Sydney, Australia
31) Jennifer Moalem, Sydney, Australia
32) Alexandra Pope, Sydney Australia
33) Shushann Movsessian, Sydney Australia
34) Amanda Frost, Sydney, Australia
35) Chris Liddell, Sydney, Australia
36) Jade Deegan, Sydney, Australia
37) Jo Satori, Sydney, Australia
38) Philip Higson, Sydney, Australia
39 Cheryl Kemp, Dorrigo, Australia
40) Chris Peacock, Maitland, Australia
41) Gloria Peacock, Maitland, Australia
42) Helen McCall, Duns Creek, Australia
43) Raquel Carvajal, Arncliffe, Australia :-)
44) Rolando Ramos, Arncliffe, Australia
45) Martin Ramos, Paddington, Australia
46) Jade Carden, Leichhardt, Australia
47) Kira Carden, Leichhardt, Australia
48) Lilian Flores, Arncliffe, Australia
49) Juana Venegas, Enmore Australia
50) Rebeca Carmona, Illawarra, Australia
51) Osvaldo Alfaro, Illawarra, Australia
52) Gustavo Mártin Montenegro, Canberra, Australia
53) Rodrigo Andres Martin-Silva, Stanmore, Australia
54) Alison Evans, Hull, UK
55)Luci Rutledge, Leeds, UK
56) Beth Goodey, Bristol, UK
57) Kate Perryman, Bristol, uk
58) David Seneviratne, Sheffield, UK
59) Jeff Seneviratne, Manchester, UK
60) Kath Fry, Manchester, UK
61) Brian Lovatt and Joanna Tait, County Durham, UK
62) Mary Wilkinson, County Durham, UK
63) Mary Waldmeyer, Hartlepool, UK
64) Marjorie Gaudie, Northallerton, UK
65) Barbara Hungin, Egglescliffe, UK
66) Mary Walmsley, York UK
67) Gemma Simmonds, London, UK
68) Anne Garvey Cambridge UK
69) Colin Duly, Cambridge UK
70) Michael Madha, Cambridge UK
71) Marie-Lou Debrit,Schilde,Belgium
72) Wiske Van Thielen
73) Ingrid Van Linden,Belgium
74) Carlos Picón Van de Wingard, Antwerpen,Belgium
75) Steven Hofman, Mortsel, Belgium
76) Marnix De Cat, Kampenhout, Belgium
77) Koen Augustijnen, Gent, Belgium
78) Ted Stoffer, Brussels, Belgium
79) Brian Brady, London, UK
80) Catherine Mack. London, UK
81) Yashin Dujon, Belize, C.A.
82) Theresa Batty, Belize, Central America
83) Rafael Manzanero, [FCD] Belize, Central America
84) June L. Lorenzo, Laguna Pueblo, USA
85) Verna J. Teller, Isleta Pueblo, USA
86) Lois Kane (Northern Paiute Nation), Reno, NV, USA
87) Laura Fillmore, Duleshlabil, (Dresslerville) P'awa:lu', via Nevada, USA
88) Lee Dazey, Nevada, USA
Laura Fillmore |
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