0f0003 | maschinenkunst on Wed, 31 May 2006 18:16:14 +0200 (CEST) |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
[Nettime-ro] progresul avansatilor occidentali maCht ganz glucklich + frei |
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 has been found a huge deposit of gold, silver and other >minerals. To get at these, it would be necessary to break, 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 operation is planned by a multi-national company, one of whose members >is George Bush Senior. > >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 specially 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 gramme 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 the 100th person >to receive and sign the petition send it to [email protected] 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. > >Signature, City, Country > >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 > >21) Barry Cook, Todmorden > >22) Shelley BUrgoyne, Todmorden > >23) Libby Ray, Shipley, England > >24) Anne Meynell, Bradford, England > >25) Jim Meynell, Bradford, England > >26) Alec Knibbs, Kings Lynn, England > >27) Suzanne Bailey, Valencia, Spain > >28) Agnieszka Legierska, London, England > >29) Rosanna Bennett-Moncrieff, Bristol England > >30) Kirsten Bennett-Moncrieff, Bristol, England > >31) Stephen Haley, Silsoe, England > >32) Rob Smith, Bristol, England > >33) Basil Anderson, Bristol, England > > >34) Jonathan Coles, Bristol England > >35) Deborah Weinreb, Bristol England > >36) Rachel Pearcey > >37) Stephanie Greenwood > >38) Caryne Chapman Clark, London England > >39) Laurel Sutherland, London England > >40) Elliot Naftalin, London, UK > >41) Jody Levitus, Barcelona, Spain >42) Alex Barker 43) Stuart Pettican, London, England 44]Matt Reed,sydney,Australia 45) Max Doyle, Sydney, Australia 46) Ingvar Kenne Sydney Australia 47) Brian Gleeson, Melbourne, Australia 48) Martha Ross DeWitt, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 49) Gheorghe Dan, Calarasi, Romania _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/