Rights Action invites you to join an
EDUCATIONAL DELEGATION TO GUATEMALA, April 17-25, 2010
MINING COMPANIES * versus * COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, INDIGENOUS & HUMAN RIGHTS
This educational delegation will investigate environmental and health harms and human rights violations caused by large-scale “development” projects, particularly gold, silver and nickel mining operations - in the context of Guatemala’s on-going impunity and lack of justice; exploitation and widespread poverty; and generalized lack of democracy.
Over 7 days (& 8 nights), group members will meet with community development, environmental justice and indigenous and human rights activists and experts. The group will travel by van to: Mayan-Qeqchi communities in eastern Guatemala suffering harms and human rights violations due to the nickel mining interests of the Canadian Hudbay Minerals company (previously owned by Skye Resources; INCO); and to Mayan-Mam and Sipakapan communities in western Guatemala suffering harms and human rigfhts violations due to the gold and silver mining interests of the Canadian Goldcorp Inc company (previously owned by Glamis Gold).
Led by Grahame Russell of Rights Action, this trip will enable participants to learn first-hand about community development and indigenous and human rights struggles and organizing, about the unjust global “development” model, about particular problems caused by the global mining industry, and about how to be involved, in North America, with political, legal and quasi-legal activism and organizing in support of community-controlled development, enviro- and HR work.
COST: US$750. This fee covers: 8 nights of hotel; 2 meals a day for 7 days; transportation in-country; trip organization, guiding, translation, honorariums for some people we meet with, etc. Participants pay for their own travel to and from Guatemala.
DATES: Arrive in Guatemala City on Saturday April 17; depart on Sunday April 25. (There are no delegation activities planned for these dates)
FOR WHOM: Citizens and activists, donors, professors and educators, media, health, environment and legal professions, who are concerned about exploitation-poverty-“development” / foreign interventions and repression / environmental destruction / etcetera, in countries of the “global south”, and about community-based resistance and work for equality, justice and locally controlled development and environmental well being.
FOR INFORMATION, contact Rights Action’s Grahame Russell, info@rightsaction.org, 860-352-2448, www.rightsaction.org
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