* * Please post widely * **Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 6:00 p.m. - Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto, Debates Room* * "Someone else's Treasure" - Photographs from Tanzania
A multimedia evening focusing on social and enviromental injustice caused by Canadian open-pit mining around the world, and local community resistance. New photographs showing how mining operations affect local communities in Tanzania, by freelance photo-journalist Allan Cidello Lisner. Photos from the Phillipines. as well as international and indigenous resistance to Barrick Gold and Goldcorp, and in Canada, will also be shown. Free admission. Donations for victims of mining-related displacement (now refugees) in Tanzania gratefully accepted. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 6:00 p.m. - Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto, Debates Room Backgrounds: home to fifty-seven percent of the world's mining companies, Canada leads the way in the global mining industry. As the price of gold, uranium and mother minerals has increased, hundreds of local communities find themselves at the mercy of Canadian mining companies operating abroad. These companies routinely abuse human rights and destroy local ecosystems and prime farming land. The mining industry is a prime example of Canada's contribution to global injustice through industrial development. Its impacts include families being torn apart, the displacement of communities, destroyed livelihoods, permanently ruined ecosystems, devestation to waterways, and the erosion of indigenous cultures.*
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