Noam Chomsky Among Intellectuals to Slam Peru Mining Project and Government Repression

[Jefferson23]

Published 6 June 2015 (12 hours 50 minutes ago)


A letter signed by over 300 intellectuals has urged the Peruvian government to give into the demands of anti-mining protesters. Hundreds of intellectuals, led by U.S. author Noam Chomsky, have urged Peruvian President Ollanta Humala to end a multinational mining project and the government repression of protests against it, in a letter released Friday by the nongovernmental organization CooperAccion.

“We demand the Tia Maria project is suspended definitively, considering its social, political, economic and environmental unsustainability,” Spanish agency EFE reported the letter said.

The group of writers, artists and academics also expressed their “firm rejection of the declaration of the state of emergency” in the southern province of Islay, where farmers have been fighting the Mexican-American Southern Copper Corporation since mining plans were announced in 2009. Last month, Peru declared a state of emergency in the region after protests escalated, resulting in four deaths and 200 injured.

in full: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Noam-Chomsky-Among-Intellectuals-to-Slam-Peru-Mining-Project-20150606-0003.html

[daleanime]

1. K&R.....

[locks]

2. This is good news

I've been following the awful effects of gold mining all over the world for years. (Newmont, the second largest mining company in the world is headquartered in Denver.) It has destroyed people and the environment and corrupted governments and justice systems. Especially in Peru the indigenous people and Catholic leaders have been protesting so long that the largest project was finally stopped.
The other good news today is an article in Reuters that since the price of gold has dropped companies like Newmont are only starting "small" projects which at least
will not have such devastating effects on people and the environment. It has nothing to do with the propaganda they put out all the time around the world how "socially responsible" they are but simply that they can't make the billions in profit they've been making.