Open Letter to SFU Concerning Goldcorp Inc's $10,000,000 "Gift"

dawn — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:29:41 +0000

October 4, 2010

Simon Fraser University
President Andrew Petter
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A-1S6
apetter@uvic.ca, 250.721.8183, 778.782.4641, 778.782.4860

Mavis MacMillen
Director, President's Office
mamacmil@sfu.ca, 778.782.4641

Dear Andrew Petter,

Goldcorp employees bussed to pro-coup rallies in Honduras

dawn — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:33:25 +0000

Since the June 28 coup, the private sector - grouped in an umbrella group the "Movement of Peace and Democracy" - has been organizing pro-coup marches. Some Hondurans have recently given public information that buses are coming into poorer neighborhoods and that Movement organizers are paying people between 100 and 200 lempiras ($5 - $10) to participate in the pro-coup rallies.

Since 2003, Rights Action has been involved in work to document and denounce the environmental and health harms and human rights violations being caused by Vancouver based Goldcorp Inc's open pit, cyanide leeching "San Martin" mine, in the Siria Valley, department of Francisco Morazan, an hour and a half north of Tegucigalpa.

From our partner group, the Committee for the Defense of the Environment in the Siria Valley, Rights Action has learned that Entremares employees (Entremares being Goldcorp’s wholly owned subsidiary) from the “San Martin” mine have been taken, on a number of occasions since the June 28 coup, to participate in pro-coup regime marches in Tegucigalpa organized by the “Movement for Peace and Democracy”. Goldcorp (Entremares) pays for the transportation and at least one meal for the workers to attend.

More information to come ...