[SBIMC-general] Fwd: International Speakers this week: US/Cuban relations and Honduras

Sat Apr 7 20:11:16 UTC 2007

> Subject: International Speakers this week: US/Cuban relations and  
> Honduras
>
> PLease Post widely...
> Upcoming events:
> Two international speakers on Latin American politics are coming to  
> our area. Come hear Professor Salim Lamrani speak on U.S/Cuban  
> relations and Carlos Amador Aleman from Honduras speaking on the  
> environmental  and human consequences of North American mining  
> companies in Central America. More in depth info on each speaker  
> further below.
>
> SUPERPOWER PRINCIPLES, U.S. Terrorism against Cuba
>
> Please come and join Professor Salim Lamrani, the editor of  
> Superpower Principles.
>
> Where:                        Karpeles Library, 21 W Anapamu, Santa  
> Barbara, CA
> When:                                    Wednesday April 11th at  
> 6:30 p.m.
>
> Other times to catch Professor Lamrani :
>
> Tuesday, April 10th
> 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. UCSB Multicultural Center
>
>
> Wednesday April 11th 8 a.m.
>
> UCSB Radio Program: No Alibis
>
> He will be interviewed by Elizabeth Robinson
>
> In L.A Area: Friday April 13th: Whittier Law School 10am to 12 noon  
> 3333 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa. Featuring Leonard Weinglass and  
> Salim Lamrani
>
>  Carlos Amador Aleman and Sandra Cuffe of Rights Action Honduras  
> speaking events:
>
>  "Greed of North American mining companies versus the development,  
> environmental and human needs of Central American peoples”
>  Thursday April 12 –Isla Vista, CA
>
> ¡Sushi y platica! 5:30-6:30pm
>
> Sushiya Express  6955 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista, CA
>
> Come and join us for dinner/beverages as we discuss struggles of  
> Central American peoples against transnational mining companies.  
> Learn about Central American politics, culture, and globalization.
>
>  Latin American Journal Radio Program- KCSB Thursday April 12, 7-8pm
>
>  Foro Comunitario: Oxnard, CA
>
> Viernes 13 de Abril 2007
>
> 6pm Café on A , 438 Sur Calle A –Centro de Oxnard-
>
>  Esta es Mi Tierra! Esta es Mi Lucha!
>
> Foro Comunitario Sobre el Racismo Ambiental y Lucha Contra la  
> Destrucción de Nuestras Comunidades por la Corporaciones  
> Transnacionales
>
> Also in Los Angeles: Saturday April 14 3 p.m
>
> L.A Bus Riders Union   3780 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1200   Los  
> Angeles, CA 90010
>
> For more info on local speaking events contact hola2tanya at yahoo.com  
> or 805-421-9708
>
>  U.S Terrorism Against Cuba:
>
> Professor Salim Lamrani, a researcher from the Sorbonne and Denis  
> Diderot Universities in Paris, France, will be in Santa Barbara on  
> April 10th and 11th.  Professor Lamrani has specialized in US-Cuban  
> relations from the years 1959 to present.  He regularly writes  
> articles in newspapers and magazines around the world in French,  
> English, Spanish, German, and Portuguese.  He is the author of Face  
> à L’Empire: Propagande, guerre économique et terrorisme d’Etat  
> (Outremont: Lanctot, 2005).  He has also edited Superpower  
> Principles: U.S. Terrorism against Cuba, a compilation of essays  
> written by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Nadine Gordimer, Leonard  
> Weinglass, Michael Parenti and others.  The book reveals the lies  
> told to the people of the U.S. by the Bush administration about the  
> so-called “War on Terrorism” with relation to Cuba. It also  
> addresses the case of the Cuban Five, five men imprisoned in the  
> U.S for monitoring anti-Cuban terrorist organizations operating out  
> of Florida.
>
> Professor Lamrani would like to have the opportunity to share his  
> extensive research findings regarding the “war on terror” in  
> general, and the US-Cuba relationships specifically, and provide a  
> forum for questions and answers.
>  For more info on the case of the Cuban Five go to  
> www.freethefive.org.
>  #########################################
>
> HONDURAS
>  Also speaking at Oxnard event:
>  ● Gloria Roman- Activista/Líder Local de Oxnard de La Alianza en  
> Contra de LNG (Gas Natural Liquificado). Gloria reportara sobre la  
> lucha en contra la propuesta de BHP, una corporación transnacional,  
> de construir un ducto de LNG en la comunidad de Oxnard que  
> aumentara la contaminación de nuestro ambiente local.
>
>  Foro Comunitario-Organizado por Unión del Barrio
>
> Concientización ∙ Organización ∙ Acción ∙ Liberación
>
> Para mas información:
>
> info at committeeonrazarights.org
>
>  Touring WESTERN USA: Carlos Amador Aleman and Sandra Cuffe
>  Carlos is an organizer and educator and leader of the Siria Valley
>
> Environmental Committee in Francisco Morazón, Honduras.  His work  
> includes
>
> working to expose the multiple violations and harms being caused by
>
> cyanide-leaching, open pit gold mining practiced in the region by the
>
> Vancouver-based Goldcorp (formerly Glamis Gold) mining company, and to
>
> promote and work for community controlled alternative development  
> projects.
>
>  	Sandra works with Rights Action and has lived and worked in  
> Honduras for
>
> over three years, working on a wide range of development,  
> environment and
>
> human rights issues with community organizations in Honduras,  
> Guatemala and
>
> El Salvador; Sandra has investigated and written extensively about the
>
> violations and harms caused by North American mining companies –  
> including
>
> Goldcorp (formerly Glamis Gold) – articles available on request.
>
>  INTERESTED IN HOSTING AN EVENT IN WESTERN USA?  CONTACT: SANDRA  
> CUFFE,
>
> caminando27 at yahoo.es.
>
>  GENERAL INFO: info at rightsaction.org, www.rightsaction.org,  
> 1-860-352-2152.
>
> Rights Action will ask interested organizations to contribute  
> towards the
>
> over-all costs of the tour.
>
>
>
> ***GUATEMALA & HONDURAS: A GLOBAL INVESTOR’S “OASIS”
>
>  It has been said that “the problems of the South are the demands  
> of the
>
> North,” and Central America is rife with poverty and exploitation  
> and
>
> environmental destruction due in (large) part to “development”  
> economic
>
> policies imposed by and beneficial to the global north.
>
>
> On-going militarism in Central America - including the physical  
> presence of
>
> American soldiers - facilitates mainly North American efforts to  
> secure
>
> access to resources for North American investors and business  
> interests, in
>
> particular minerals, petroleum, land, water, coffee and cheap labour.
>
>
> “Free” trade agreements, including DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic  
> - Central
>
> American “Free” Trade Agreement), with the US and the CA4TA  
> (Central America
>
> Four “Free” Trade Agreement) with Canada, are further  
> “liberalizing” the
>
> region in the same way that NAFTA “liberalized” Mexico.
>
>
> MINING - “DEVELOPMENT” FOR WHOM?
>
>
> Mining mega-projects offer clear examples of the top-down,  
> environmentally
>
> and socially destructive model of ‘development’ promoted by U.S.  
> and
>
> Canadian governments, global companies and International Financial
>
> Institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
>
>
> The scale of damage and destruction experienced by people who live in
>
> communities affected by multinational mining interests have caused  
> some to
>
> label these activities as “Terrorismo Minero” (“Mining  
> Terrorism”).
>
>
> The World Bank, which invests directly in mining companies and  
> insures their
>
> investments, along with help from Northern governments, have pressured
>
> mineral rich states around the world to do away with their existing  
> mining
>
> legislation, and funded them to come up with new legislation that  
> creates a
>
> suitable environment for multinational mining companies, regardless  
> of the
>
> needs of local people.
>
>
> Guatemala and Honduras are both examples of countries where mining
>
> legislation was changed to favour (primarily Canadian)  
> multinational mining
>
> companies.  Today, in both countries, the royalty tax rate for  
> mining is
>
> calculated as 1% of the value of total production.
>
>
> GOLDCORP/GLAMIS in HONDURAS & GUATEMALA
>
>
> Specific examples of devastating and highly contested mining  
> projects are
>
> the “Marlin project” in Guatemala and the disastrous “San  
> Martin” mine in
>
> Honduras, both owned by the Vancouver based Canadian company  
> Goldcorp inc,
>
> formerly Glamis Gold.
>
>
> In addition to destroying large tracts of land, major issues have  
> arisen at
>
> the “Marlin project” and the “San Martin” mine around the  
> contamination and
>
> drying up of rivers and sources of drinking water, illness without
>
> compensation among workers, the displacement of communities and the
>
> fracturing of their leadership, and threats, violence, and even  
> murder of
>
> local people who take a stance against the company.
>
>
> Many of these concessions - hidden from the public eye and granted  
> without
>
> consultation - fall within indigenous territories, in direct  
> violation of
>
> the national legislations and ILO Convention 169 that indigenous  
> groups in
>
> Honduras and Guatemala fought successfully to have ratified.
>
> COME AND HEAR THE VOICES that Goldcorp and the mainstream media  
> want to keep
>
> silent, and learn why gold is not always “all that glitters.”
>
>
>
>
>
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