[ottawa-activist-events] Brown Bag Lunch: Mining and Indigenous Rights in Guatemala and Ontario

[Jamie Kneen]

[A little bit last minute, but the list has been refusing to send
this for me for several days!]

Please circulate!

You are cordially invited to a presentation and discussion on
"Mining, Environment, Communities, and Indigenous Rights in
Guatemala, Honduras, and Ontario".

Place: CCIC Boardroom (3rd floor, 1 Nicholas Street, Ottawa)
Time: Noon, April 25, 2006

Guest Speakers:
Juan Tema, a Sipakapense Mayan leader from San Marcos, Guatemala
Sandra Cuffe, Rights Action, living and working in Honduras
Alvin Fiddler, Deputy Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation
John Cutfeet, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake First
Nation) Lands & Environment Office.

Glamis Gold has made significant profits for its shareholders,
directors and investors from its open pit, cyanide-leaching mining
operations in Guatemala and Honduras, at the expense of the
development needs and environmental well-being of the local and
Indigenous populations.

Five Northwestern Ontario First Nations have had a moratorium on
mining in their traditional territories since last October; in
February, Platinex Mining was kicked out of Kitchenuhmaykoosib
Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake First Nation). The moratorium covers the
traditional territories of Kitchenuhmaykoosib, Muskrat Dam, Wapekeka,
Wawakapewin, and Deer Lake First Nation in Nishnawbe Aski Nation
territory.

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Jamie Kneen
Communications & Outreach Coordinator ofc. (613) 569-3439
MiningWatch Canada cell: (613) 761-2273
250 City Centre Ave., Suite 508 fax: (613) 569-5138
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6K7 e-mail: ja...@miningwatch.ca
Canada http://www.miningwatch.ca
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