If you can’t be in Toronto, PLEASE POST A PHOTO OF YOUR OWN PROTEST SIGN! #ProtestBarrickGold
Their AGM is online this year, but we’ll still be at their office sending the message that their harms to communities + environment don’t go unnoticed!
Communities around the world will be taking action to show how Barrick Gold systemically ignores their concerns about the violence of its operations on their land, water & lives!
Despite Barrick Gold’s President/CEO Mark Bristow’s claim that “recognizing & respecting human rights have long been a fundamental value” for Barrick Gold, people living near Barrick operations round the world tell a different story!
In Alaska, Indigenous communities strongly oppose Barrick’s Donlin gold mine project because they believe it would harm their traditional lands and livelihoods, and an Alaskan judge expressed concerns over its potential impacts on water quality!
In Tanzania for over a decade, Indigenous communities have reported the use of excessive force by mine security and forced evictions from Barrick Gold mining operations, and there have been three international lawsuits related to these allegations!
Activists contend that the Barrick Gold agreement with the central government of Pakistan to extract gold and copper from the Reko Diq mine is illegal and locals in Balochistan’s Chaghi district did not consent to this project!
Communities in Marinduque, Philippines, affected by Barrick Gold’s mine have claimed environmental impacts on their rivers and there have been numerous legal attempts to hold the firm responsible!
In Porgera, Papua New Guinea, for decades, communities have protested Barrick Gold mine waste disposal practices and mine security’s alleged excess use of force and sexual assault against local villagers!
Cortez mine expansion faces stiff opposition from Western Shoshone land protectors who see the project on their ancestral lands, known as Newe Sogobia, as cultural and spiritual genocide!
“Barrick has spilled toxic chemicals into the water of the Jáchal River multiple times, while operating in the heart of the San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve. The solution is for the company to leave.” – Domingo Jofré, Asamblea Jáchal No se Toca, San Juan, Argentina
Barrick Gold’s mega-mines are HUGE and all gold mining uses toxic substances! This has led to contamination of water sources! The water from the Odiel river was PROHIBITED for HUMAN CONSUMPTION, and more recently for IRRIGATION. Mining contamination is so bad that it is making it IMPOSSIBLE to build a necessary RESERVOIR…
The mega-mining corporations LIE to the populations in both Peru and Argentina. There was never MERCURY in the Jachal River until BARRICK began to extract gold in its VELADERO mine. The most dangerous thing in the VELADERO spills is the MERCURY that contaminates the Jáchal River! Communities in Jáchal have documented and denounced five toxic spills at Veladero mine that they say has irreversibly damaged the local ecosystem and raised concern with the UN!
We ask that the process initiated by Barrick Gold to achieve the removal of a GLACIER located in the heart of the Andes Mountains in the town of Barreal, department of Calingasta, San Juan, Argentina is CANCELED immediately!
photo: Barrick Gold
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