[Jukebox-list] An Awful Injustice

[rockolakid]

Hello everyone
I don't usually send these type of emails, but just recently my eyes have 
been opened to many horrors against minorities and this is one easy and 
hopefully effective way to make our voice heard in support of these people.
In peace,
Douglas.


In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from
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 especially 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 gram 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
noapascualama at yahoo.ca 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 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, U.K.
21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, U.K.
22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, U.K.
23) Lisa Stuart, Potes, Spain.
24) Michael Stuart, Potes, Spain.
25) Renee Engl, Byron Bay, Australia
26) Adrian Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia
27) Riana Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia
28) Oriel Paterson, Brunswick Heads, Australia
29) Alicia Paterson, Brisbane, Australia
30) Lyneve Robinson,Sydney, Australia
31) Jennifer Moalem, Sydney, Australia
32) Sharyn Wilson, Sydney, Australia
33) Vicki Watson Taylor
34) Simone Carter, Sydney,Australia
35) Marietta Putignano King, Los Angeles, CA
36) Kevin King, Los Angeles, CA
37) Alesha Kneisel, Los Angeles, CA
38) Paula Vasquez-Meeks,
Los Angeles, CA
39) Keren LeClair-Green, Los Angeles, CA
40) Valee More, Auckland, NZ
41) Steve Hibbs, Slaithwaite, UK
42) Marie Allainguillaume, West Yorkshire, UK
43) Ian Morley, West Yrokshire, UK
44) Sunil Prasad, Suva, Fiji Islands
45) Lice Cokanasiga, Suva, Fiji Islands
46) Sereana Cokanasiga, Suva, Fiji
47) Pat Fitzgibbon Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
48) Maike Thoene, Valparaiso Chile
50) Emma Lockley, New Zealand
51) Mat Shaw, Melbourne, Australia
52) Hayden Forster, Melbourne, Australia
53) Jazmin Forster, Melbourne, Australia
54) Nicole Shaw, Melbourne, Australia
55) Adam Doherty, Melbourne, Australia
56) Stephanie Farrar, Melbourne, Australia
57) Daniel Kearney, Melbourne Australia
58) stella, melb, australia
59) Jo Windred, Melbourne, Australia
60) Valley Lipcer, Mullumbimby Australia
61) Tirese Ballard, Melbourne, Australia
62) Anna Loughrey, Geelong, Australia
63) Susan Purdy,Dumbalk, Australia
64) Fiona Morrison, Darwin, Australia
65) Monica Wager, Darwin, Australia
66) Phillip Davison, Darwin, Australia
67) Kibbee Davison, Darwin, Australia
68) Michelle Koslowski, Perth, Australia
69) Ana Levar, Perth, Australia
70) Nada Levar, Perth, Australia
71) Marie Novak, Perth Australia
72)Rosemary Christie Cyprus
73) Douglas Christie, Cheshire, UK.
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