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ALL GOLD MINES ARE A CRIME SCENE! Legal and Illegal GOLD Mining are both Destructive!

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Posted onApril 18, 2023byBarbara Crane Navarro – Rainforest Art Project

PLEASE JOIN US FOR 2 MORE WEEKS OF GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST BARRICK GOLD! In Solidarity with communities affected by BARRICK’s LEGAL GOLD MINING!

photo: Chris SSALI – In Solidarity with communities affected by BARRICK GOLD Corporation!

In Barrick Gold’s 2021 Human Rights Report, President and CEO Mark Bristow stated that “recognizing and respecting human rights have long been a fundamental value for Barrick.” But communities impacted by Barrick operations globally – in the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Pakistan, and in the United States – present a different, somber truth: Barrick seemingly systemically ignores community concerns about the violence of its operations on their land, water, and lives.

Last year, communities affected by Barrick’s operations in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, and Papua New Guinea came together to share their personal experiences of human rights abuse and environmental harm. They shared their struggle to hold Barrick, the world’s second-largest gold mining company, accountable.

We continue to lift up their voices and the voices of other Barrick-affected communities in Tanzania, Philippines, the United States, and Pakistan. Join us during two weeks of action against Barrick, through April 30!

photo: Barrick Gold

WAYS TO TAKE ACTION –

Sign the petitions:

Support the Asamblea Jáchal No Se Toca in Argentina as they demand that Barrick shut down its toxic Veladero mine
Sign-on for communities in the Dominican Republic downstream from Barrick’s Pueblo Viejo mine as they demand the government to shut down a dangerous expansion project
Take action to encourage President Joe Biden to prevent the serious and irreversible adverse impacts of the proposed Donlin mine on the people, land, fish, and wildlife of the Kuskokwim in Alaska (Action for US citizens only).

photo: Barrick Gold

JOIN ONLINE: THROUGH APRIL 30, 2023 –

Take a photo in solidarity with communities harmed by Barrick’s operations and post to social media using the hashtag #ProtestBarrickGOLD!

Show your solidarity by taking a picture with a message of support to Barrick-affected communities and/or a message to Barrick Gold (@BarrickGold) demanding justice, access to information, and remedy for communities harmed by Barrick’s operations.

Sample messages:

Hold Barrick Gold accountable!
Barrick Gold: Respect Indigenous rights!
Barrick Gold’s legacy is toxic!
Barrick Gold contaminates!
Solidarity with communities opposing Barrick Gold!
No consent means no gold mining!

photo: Barrick Gold

COPY FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

Please share on social media using the hashtags #ProtestBarrickGold and $ABX.TO

Stay tuned for upcoming actions around Barrick’s annual shareholder meeting in May!

From: Mining Watch Canada

@MiningWatch

For details concerning communites affected by Barrick Gold, please see here:https://barbara-navarro.com/2023/04/13/please-join-us-for-a-week-of-action-against-barrick-gold-through-sunday-april-16-stand-with-communities-affected-by-legal-gold-mining-around-the-world/

Banned Cancer-Causing Chemicals Found in 88% of Household Products

from thefreeonline on 20th April 2023 by Grace Van Deelen at Childrens Health Defense shared with thanks!

cancer chemicals plastics baby electronics feature

By Grace Van Deelen

Researchers found short-chain chlorinated paraffins, or SCCPs — a group of cancer-causing chemicals used in metalworking and the production of PVC, plastics, rubbers and other materials — in a wide array of household products, according to a study published Tuesday in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.

Banned chemicals that potentially cause cancer in humans have been discovered in a wide array of household products, according to a study published in the journal Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.

Short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) are a group of chemicals that are used in metalworking and the production of PVC, plastics, rubbers and other materials.

They are persistent chemicals, meaning they don’t degrade in the environment and accumulate in animals. Chlorinated paraffins have been detected in various wildlife and in human milk and blood.

The new study shows that SCCPs are still widely present in household goods despite bans on the chemicals, indicating the need for more regulatory action. Researchers found SCCPs in 84 of 96 household goods tested in Canada.

Religious Fascists Poisoning 1000’s of Revolutionary Girls – Iran/Rojhilat

Scared by women’s revolution in Iran the State allows misogynist terrorists to make war on rebel schoolgirls with dozens more poison gas attacks on their schools.

from thefreeonline on 19th April 2023 by Hengaw.net / @Starr Congress / Jinha Agency

The Rojava Revolution has spread to Iran, clashing with state sponsored repression of women expressed in waves of poison gas attacks on revolutionary girls by cowardly men fearful of losing their 1000 year old privileges

The Rojava example still survives among multiple enemies, with a strong anti capitalist co-op movement and joint women’s leadership. There are Arab, Azadi and Syriac women’s militias within the broad SDF defense coalition and Kurdish women guerillas fight in Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

But it is the inspiring Jineoloji women’s ideology that has spread like wildfire to neighbouring countries and also to groups around the world. The YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) were organised, to the horror of Patriarchal Regimes, and began to free themselves, their families, communities, and homeland from ISIS and medieval style abuse. see slso: Organizing Transformed Spaces: Kurdish Women, Jineoloji and Rojava

Today, women in North & East Syria, #Rojava, also took to the streets to protest the murder of #NagihanAkarsel. Here are pictures from Sheba.#JinJiyanAzadî #jineoloji pic.twitter.com/L4Mg1KMuE3
— Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava (@starrcongress) October 6, 2022

As with other Kurdish movements, the recent uprising known as ‘Jina’s Revolution’ (after ) inside Iran, with the Kurdish slogan of Jin, Jîyan, Azadî (Women, Life, Freedom), has been making headlines for months and has strong roots in the Kurdish people’s long history of freedom struggles.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a reputation for being one of the most misogynistic and anti-woman in the world, depriving women of their most fundamental human rights both by the state and within society.

Iran was freed from a the murderous British and US sponsored dictatorship by a fundamentalist Iranian Revolution in 1979. Ever since it has been constantly attacked, subverted, blockaded and severely sanctioned by the US and allies which covet its oil resources.

In reply Iran has been unfortunately controlled by a militarized autocratic regime using religion and heavy repression to defend itself and control its 17 unique ethnic minority cultures.

This regime has been specifically targeting the Kurdish majority area of Rojhilat ( Eastern Kurdistan NW Iran) because of their long-standing opposition to the central Iranian state.

The successful ideas of the Rojava Revolution in N Syria have spread to the Rojhilat resistance, especially to women, and it was here that the death in custody of a Kurdish women, Jina Amini for not wearing religious clothing sparked a women-led protest movement that has swept the whole country.

More chemical attacks targeting 20 more schools in multiple cities in Iran spark concerns

17 April 2023 hengaw.net/en/news/2o….

Hengaw: Monday, April 17, 2023

“One of the students of Tarawat School, whose name is withheld by Hengaw, said in this regard: ‘One hour before the chemical attack, 12 passengers in three cars entered the schoolyard and locked the exit door. Two of these forces went to the janitor’s room and then collected all the CCTV cameras, and took them with them at the end’. She added: ‘All these people were wearing masks and after they left, symptoms of poisoning and nausea appeared in the students’.