Sign on this letter: Deadline February 29, 2024
Rights Action encourages individuals & organizations to sign on this letter in solidarity with the mining resistance struggle of La Puya, Guatemala. Please share this with your contacts.
Solidarity with the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya
From: Jennifer Moore <jen@ips-dc.org
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2024
Subject: Call for sign ons: Solidarity with La Puya; Solidaridad con La Puya, Guatemala
Organizations and individuals are invited to sign on to this letter in solidarity with the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya. For twelve years, as of March 2nd, they have been organizing in defense of water, community health and self-determination up against the El Tambor gold mining project currently owned by Nevada-based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates.
This company is also unjustly suing Guatemala for over US$400 million since its project was halted in 2016 for lack of prior consultation with affected indigenous people.
We are collecting signatures of organizations and individuals until end of day on February 29th.
Please sign and share widely: https://forms.gle/92RszS3WVyq1fwaM7
Thank you!
Jen
Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
https://ips-dc.org/global-economy/
The courageous struggle of la “La Puya” communities, one hour outside of Guatemala City, is one of the four mining resistance struggles documented in our recently published book TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala, edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell. https://btlbooks.com/book/testimonio ~/~ https://www.testimoniothebook.org
In our archives (https://rightsaction.org/archives), find some of the human rights, environment, land & justice struggles - including the La Puya struggle – that Rights Action has supported since 1995.
