REMINDER: Today, Emergency Meeting in Support of Protestors in Peru- 5pm

[Socialist Party USA NYC Local]

5pm @ 241 East 49^th Street (NYC)

TELL PRESIDENT HUMALA AND NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION TO STOP PLUNDERING CAJAMARCA!!!

This Conga gold mine project is being carried out by the US-based Newmont Mining Corporation and its Peruvian partners with the sanction of Peru’s President Ollanta Humala. In an effort to extract gold from the Conga district in Cajamarca Peru - these corporate plunderers are threatening the fragile ecosystem of the region and its already limited water supply. The project includes destroying four mountain lakes in the region which will have dangerous results for the local environment and population! Although the Newmont Mining Corporation has promised to replace the lakes with man-made reservoirs, such artificial creations cannot replicate the natural ecological processes that take place in the original lakes. Likewise, the sustainability of the reservoirs in this earthquake-prone region is highly questionable.  

Local communities and activists opposed to the mining project are currently being harassed.  President Humala’s policies have included the arrests of activists, suspension of civil liberties and the killing of protesters. Particularly tragic were the deaths of five people and the injuring of dozens more when police opened fire on protesters in the towns of Celendin and Bambamarca on July 3, 2012. Two days later, Father Marco Arana, a leading activist opposed to the project, was roughed up and dragged by police from a demonstration in a choke hold. Show your support for Father Marcos as well as Gregorio Santos, Cajamarca’s regional President and forty-one other activists charged with “obstruction” for protesting the Conga gold mine.

Come out and demonstrate on Wednesday July 18^th

Meet in front of Peruvian Consulate at 5pm

Address: 241 East 49^th Street (NYC)

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