[R-G] Fwd: TORONTO, CANADA - Need for Solidarity === Another Mining Related Struggle === Metallica Resources Inc. in Mexico

[Anthony Fenton]

METALLICA RESOURCES Inc. mining struggle coming home to Toronto,  
Canada, where the investors and beneficiaries are …

(* As of March 2007, the CPP (Canadian Pension Plan) had over Cdn 
$11,000,000 invested in Metallica Resources Inc.)

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THE METALLICA RESOURCES ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: PICKET AND CREATIVE  
ACTION
Date: June 17th.  Time:  10:00 am.  Place: Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay  
St., Toronto, ON. (http://www.toronto.suttonplace.com/).
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Dear friends of Rights Action,

* Folks not in Toronto, Canada area:  Please read and pass on this  
information.
* Folks in Toronto area: please read and contact the people mentioned  
below if you can help.

ACTION NEEDED FOR POLICY CHANGE IN CANADA & UNITED STATES:

All of these mining and resource extraction struggles (Rights Action  
is quite involved in struggles in Central America related to gold and  
nickel mining) are “our” issues in Canada and United States.  More  
critical education is needed in North America to understand how our  
governments promote and assist the expansion of our resource  
extraction corporations and investors across the globe, despite well  
documented environmental harms and human rights violations.

More citizen and investor activism is needed in Canada and the United  
States, to challenge our unjust corporate and investor relations with  
countries and communities across the globe.

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METALLICA RESOURCES Inc. IN MEXICO

From: Nadia Hausfather [mailto:activistresearcher at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:49 AM
To: info at rightsaction.org
Subject: Need your help! Mexican delegation coming to T.O.

Hello folks at Rights Action,

The FAO (Spanish for Broad Opposition Front) Mexico and Montreal, a  
movement against illegal mining operations in Cerro de San Pedro,  
Mexico, has decided to send a delegation to Canada, because Metallica  
Resources Inc. (the Canadian mining company there) - which is ravaging  
the earth illegally in Cerro de San Pedro - is having its AGM in  
Toronto on June 17th (more details in official callout below!).
THE METALLICA RESOURCES ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: PICKET AND CREATIVE  
ACTION
Date: June 17th.  Time:  10:00 am.  Place: Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay  
St., Toronto, ON.  (http://www.toronto.suttonplace.com/).
Although the timeline is short, we are at a really critical moment in  
the struggle right now and both collectives (in Mexico and Montreal)  
decided to move forward.

We made a call to Metallica and found out that we can bring delegates  
from Mexico into the shareholders' meeting and ask questions. We are  
also going to try to organize some street theatre and a picket  
outside, but seeing as we are in Mexico and Montreal, we are hoping  
that the word gets out in Toronto and that people take interest.

The three delegates from Mexico will be:

1- Armando Barreiro - a federal elected parliamentarian
2- Carlos Covarrubias - a lawyer and government 'regidor' or advisor  
with the opposition party (PRD) who works on the Agrarian Tribunal  
legal case for Cerro de San Pedro
3- Don Mario Martinez - a retired mineral engineer, resident of Cerro  
de San Pedro and Frente Amplio Opositor (FAO) activist

The delegates will be accompanied by Lorena Gil and Enrique Rivera,  
who is seeking refugee status in Canada due to repression surrounding  
the Cerro de San Pedro case. Members of FAO Montreal will also be  
traveling to Toronto.

The delegates are available to meet with any interested organizations  
before the 17th.  I have attached below a "callout" that we're  
circulating. Lorena Gil will be in Toronto the week before the action,  
and can be reached at Loregil_26 at yahoo.com.

We are hoping to set up meetings with Barreiro and Canadian  
parliamentarians (who, of course, will not necessarily be in Ottawa).   
Any advice, names or ideas would also be welcome. Please don't  
hesitate to get in touch with either myself or Lorena with any  
questions, tips, etc.

In solidarity,

Nadia Hausfather :-) (see callout below)
(514) 585-6489

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¡¡¡CERRO DE SAN PEDRO: MEXICAN MINE BATTLE COMES TO TORONTO!!!

Since 1997, residents of the Mexican village of Cerro de San Pedro and  
the surrounding area have been fighting a large-scale open-pit gold  
and silver mine.  Canadian corporation Metallica Resources Inc. has  
backed the project since its inception.

[As of March 2007, the Canadian Pension Plan has over Cdn$11,000,000  
invested in this company.]

Mining operations began in 2006 without required environmental permits  
and despite the repression of dissent, a political assassination, and  
widespread allegations of corruption.  In July 2008, Metallica  
Resources will merge with two other junior mining firms to form New  
Gold Inc.

Join Mexican anti-mine activists at the site of Metallica Resource's  
shareholder meeting as they bring the resistance to Canada and give  
future New Gold shareholders a preview of the battle ahead.

CALL FOR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY
The Frente Amplio Opositor (FAO), the anti-mine movement located in  
Mexico and Montreal, is urgently seeking organizers and solidarity  
activists to spread the word and support our mobilization in Toronto.  
We are looking for people who can help with outreach and mobilization,  
and who may be interested in organizing other events with the Mexican  
delegates.  Please contact us at cerrodesanpedro at gmail.com for more  
information.  Members of FAO Montreal are available for trips to
Toronto to organize actions in the coming weeks.

For photos of an anti-Metallica action in Montreal in 2007: http://photos.cmaq.net/v/fao/

For more information on the struggle in Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico: http://faomontreal.wordpress.com/ 
  or  http://cerrodesanpedro.org

To get in touch: cerrodesanpedro at gmail.com

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