call for support and film showing
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 July 2016 08:45
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Call for support:
Hello everyone,
The Thinking Garden, our beautiful documentary film about Hleketani Community Garden in South Africa, will be released later this summer. We can’t wait to screen it! (Photo: farmer Rosina Masangu got a preview when Liz was in Jopi village in June.)
Twelve days to go in our *final* fundraiser: Please consider helping to get the word out via Facebook, email, or by whatever means at your disposal.
https://igg.me/at/thinkinggarden
(the video is a few early clips from our successful Arts Council application)
Myriad thanks for your support of Hleketani Community Garden -- The Thinking Garden.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth, Christine, Mo and Basani
Elizabeth Vibert Christine Welsh Moira Simpson Basani Ngobeni
E. Vibert and C. Welsh
History / Gender Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 3045
Victoria, Canada V8W 3P4
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***Special Event Announcement**** Don’t miss this FREE screening of Flin Flon Flim FlamAn Investigative Media production.Hudbay Minerals‘ worldwide operations and its human rights and environmental abuses. Coming to Victoria on Friday July 15th at 7 pmThe Vic Theatre: 808 Douglas St. The film director John Dougherty will be in attendance for discussion and Q and A after the film.There will be a brief introduction by Mining Justice Action Committee (MJAC). Award-winning journalist John Dougherty’s latest documentary “Flin Flon Flim Flam”, reports on Toronto-based miner Hudbay Minerals‘ worldwide operations and its human rights and environmental abuses. The exposé reveals how Hudbay contaminated its home community in Flin Flon, Manitoba with high levels of heavy metals from a smelter the company operated for more than 80 years. The documentary also reports on the impact to residents of Hudbay’s former mine in El Estor, Guatemala where the company’s security guards allegedly clashed with residents over land claims. A Mayan community leader was shot to death and another man left paralyzed in the September 2009 violence. Hudbay is now the target of a three, precedent-setting civil suits in Toronto that have withstood the company’s attempts to have the case thrown out. The cases are proceeding to trial. The cases mark the first time a Canadian company is being held accountable in Canadian courts for the acts of an overseas subsidiary. Dougherty also reports on demonstrations and community opposition to Hudbay’s recently opened Constancia open pit copper mine in Uchucarco, Peru. Residents in the community were beaten and tear gassed by Peruvian National Police wearing rain gear provided by Hudbay Minerals. Residents in the rural community claim Hudbay has reneged on its promises to the community in exchange for rights to the land for the open pit mine. The film covers in detail the environmental destruction that would occur if Hudbay Minerals obtains state and federal permits to construct the Rosemont mine on the north-eastern face of the Santa Rita Mountains and the threat to Green Valley’s water supply from Hudbay’s planned groundwater pumping. Hudbay has promised to replace 2 groundwater it pumps from the Santa Cruz River Valley with Central Arizona Project Canal water. Critics, however, cast doubt that Hudbay will be able to fulfill its promise as Colorado River supplies continue to decline.
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Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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