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[Alicia Sangineti]

Would mine for gold in the National Cathedral?
Stop the destruction of sacred Shoshone lands in Nevada

Take Action!

Tell the BLM to leave the Shoshone's sacred lands alone.

Dear Alicia,

This Columbus Day -- also celebrated around the country as Indigenous Peoples' Day -- please help protect sacred sites from mining.

Canadian Barrick Gold is seeking to expand the Cortez gold mine in Nevada onto Mt. Tenabo, a sacred site to the Western Shoshone nation.

The mine expansion would threaten sacred Shoshone gravesites, disturb ritual grounds and could harm important water sources. To the Western Shoshone people, who were worshipping at Mt. Tenabo long before Christopher Columbus "discovered" America, mining this area is akin to mining the National Cathedral and the Arlington National Cemetery.

BLM turns a blind eye
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has indicated that it would allow this mine expansion, even though it violates the rights of the Western Shoshone, the U.N. Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the recommendations of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Take Action: Tell the BLM to respect sacred sites
The BLM is accepting comments for the next 3 weeks on an environmental impact statement of the mine expansion. (The comment period ends on Nov 3rd - just one day before the Presidential elections.)

This Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day, tell the BLM to reject the Cortez mine expansion because of its impacts on sacred Western Shoshone lands. Tell the BLM that, this day of all days, we should respect the rights and wishes of the people who lived here well before Columbus.

Thank you,
The No Dirty Gold team


INSTRUCTIONS:

    * Go to the action page. 
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/676/t/580/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=288#TEXTEND
    * Read the sample letter and modify if you can. Personalized letter text and/or subject headers will increase the impact of your letter.
    * Clicking "Send My Message" will send your letter via email to the BLM's Nevada office.





Lic. Alicia Sangineti
Dpto. de Geología
Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Earthlings (Terrícolas)


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-Mejor contenido del International Boston Film Festival, 2005;

-Mejor documental del Artivist Film Festival, 2005.

Documental narrado por Joaquin Phoenix
Dirigido por Shaun Monson  
Música de Moby

Lo podés ver sólamente aquí:

http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=7576567901991519153&q=earthlings
Difundilo!



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