http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/8540/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/struggles-papua-new-guinea-and-dominican-republic/36720 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Community Advocates speak inside the meeting, while supporters rally outside </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_2016_1.jpg" alt="" title="Cressida Kuala addresses a crowd." width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/31224228_1796524533984297_6931865765914083328_n.jpg" alt="" title="The hand-painted poster board signs were made by highschoolers who had visited the Pueblo Viejo mine. Since 2014, over 100 high school and university students have visited communities next to Barrick&#039;s Pueblo Viejo mine, and yet Barrick still denies that there is a problem. These students now come to protest Barrick every year, and will help push Barrick past the tipping point to admitting these abuses." width="450" height="337" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/31290731_10160497834975193_677641304032815654_n.jpg" alt="" title="Klaire Gain and Cressida Kuala addressed shareholders inside the meeting, and supporters outside." width="450" height="600" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/40784880325_7214062f85_z.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/40784904845_575ed78c2b_h_1.jpg" alt="" title="Crowd shot outside Barrick AGM. Photo: Alan Pike" width="450" height="253" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/31206561_1796662023970548_1840828794156351488_n.jpg" alt="" title="After rallying outside the AGM, supporters marched to Barrick&#039;s headquarters at Front and King." width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/31206660_10155167142862391_619368666538170052_n.jpg" alt="" title="Outside Barrick&#039;s HQ, posters and banners were placed on the floor, while people held vigil outside on the street until 5pm, engaging passersby." width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/31301622_10155167142872391_5443446309081639610_n.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/31189827_10155167142922391_2065489591706009120_n.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <div>Peter Munk&rsquo;s death made headlines across Canada and front-page news in Toronto. </div><p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/struggles-papua-new-guinea-and-dominican-republic/36720" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/struggles-papua-new-guinea-and-dominican-republic/36720#comments Compiled by Sakura Saunders/Mining Injustice Solidarity Network Direct Action Education Environment Gender Indigenous Solidarity Barrick Gold Cressida Kuala mining injustice Peter Munk png Porgera mine Pueblo Viejo Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:29:19 +0000 Sakura Saunders 36720 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/victims-silenced-gang-rape-survivors-papua-new-gui/36513 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> ~Both women had legal proxies~ </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/18121768_1664167710553314_8827190349526109349_o.jpg" alt="" title="Joycelyn Mandi (foreground) and Everlyn Gaupe address a crowd of protesters who braved rain and cold weather to support them. Photo: Allan Lissner" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/18056503_1664167657219986_1864818224486302524_o.jpg" alt="" title="After the women came out of the meeting, the police refused to let us be on the sidewalk, we told the police that that meant we would have to take the street. They said, go ahead, but I don&#039;t think they were prepared for what happened next – we took all of Front street! Photo: Allan Lissner" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/17991275_1664167883886630_4127858794478201473_o.jpg" alt="" title="Jocyelyn and Everlyn were given flowers as they left Barrick&#039;s AGM." width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/18121756_1664167763886642_2955537453543909883_o.jpg" alt="" title="Despite the rain and cold weather, many people came out to protest Barrick Gold and support the women who went inside to testify," width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/18121113_1664167810553304_278110320989018695_o.jpg" alt="" title="The people who went inside the meeting were happy when they left the Barrick AGM. Despite being denied the ability to speak, their message was heard." width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/c-rltnsxyaela92.jpg" alt="" title="Everlyn and Joycelyn both had legal proxies. Here is proof that they were sent in before the deadline, a fax receipt. The instructions for submitting proxies is clearly written on this form." width="450" height="600" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/18055940_1664168163886602_7132092723046346193_o.jpg" alt="" title="These two quotes are from community members next to Barrick&#039;s Pueblo Viejo mine. As in Porgera, the main demand of this community is to be resettled away from the mine site" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/18121377_1664167987219953_153731532175643863_o.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/18076988_1664167930553292_7891052134910863345_o_1.jpg" alt="" title="Barrick&#039;s Veladero mine in Argentina has spilled cyanide solution 3 times in the past 18 months, emboldening calls to permanently shut down this mine. It is currently shut down only temporarily." width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block="true" data-editor="61ukt" data-offset-key="35ce6-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="35ce6-0-0">Everyln Gaupe and Joycelyn Mandi travelled across </div></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-attachment"> <div class="field-label">Files attached to this post:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/agm_statement_and_questions_at_barrick_everlyn_and_joycelyn_april_25_2.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=35287">agm_statement_and_questions_at_barrick_everlyn_and_joycelyn_april_25_2.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/victims-silenced-gang-rape-survivors-papua-new-gui/36513" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/victims-silenced-gang-rape-survivors-papua-new-gui/36513#comments Sakura Saunders/Mining Injustice Solidarity Network Direct Action Education Environment Gender Indigenous Solidarity Barrick Gold gang rape Gold mining Ipili Papua New Guinea png porgera rape sexual assault survivor-led organizing we believe survivors Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:29:29 +0000 Sakura Saunders 36513 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/globe-and-mail-corporate-apologists-behind-love-af/16338 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/ols-man-shwoing-waste.jpg" alt="" title="Porgeran points to the quicksand valley that is eroding an entire valley. Photo: Damien Baker" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/crowded_apalaka.jpg" alt="" title="Apalaka Village is one of the villages where inhabitants must move further and further up the mountainside to avoid their homes being swallowed by the mine waste, which causes landslides. photo: Sakura Saunders" width="288" height="216" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates among the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian Colonial Administration of New Guinea, or &quot;white man&quot;, in 1939.</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/globe-and-mail-corporate-apologists-behind-love-af/16338" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/globe-and-mail-corporate-apologists-behind-love-af/16338#comments Sakura Saunders Environment Gender Indigenous Media Police/Prisons Poverty Barrick Gold corporate media enviromental justice globe and mail human rights indigenous rights media critique north mara Peter Munk png porgera resource wars tanzania Toronto Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:40:47 +0000 Sakura Saunders 16338 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca