Updated! Agro-Fuels and Gold-Mining: The Human Cost

bristol | the environment | feature Saturday April 12, 2008 12:24 by imcvol

Bristol speaker gets death threats

Bristol speaker gets death threats

Updated! A speaker at the event featured has recieved death threats; "your name (sic) has been added to the list of undesirables who should be eliminated"..Full article & what you can do to help.

Following the moving and important tale of one indiginous people's forcible displacement due to gold mining, another story in another place needs to be heard: Guayusa Andina of Espacio Bristol-Colombia writes; Frog Lover, the third member of Espacio Bristol to arrive in Colombia over the past few months has been based in the Southern Bolívar region of the country, an area taken over by right-wing paramilitaries a few years back in order to pave the way for “development” projects around oil palm monocultures and gold mining under the control of multinationals. In the run-up to two events in Bristol over the next few days Espacio members report first hand on the impact of agro-fuels and gold mining. Espacio will be with Rising Tide be at Tesco, Eastville from 4.30 – 7pm on Tuesday 15th in solidarity with communities who are struggling to keep their lands. On Wednesday 16th we’re hosting a talk by a member of the organization Frog Lover is accompanying, along with Colombia Solidarity.....(Image: Gold mining waste is dumped directly into the sea) Full article.

| Bristol speaker gets death threats | Agro-fuels and gold-mining: the human consequences | Volunteer Opportunity: Accompaniment Training Coordinator for Espacio Bristol-Colombia | Mining, Multinationals and Community Mobilisation (talk byTeófilo Acuña, Wednesday 16th April) | www.espacio.org.uk | Other Related News: Biofools Day of Action (Tesco, Eastville from 4.30 - 7pm on the 15th) | Become Colombia!

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