Thanks David,
This indeed can be seen as great example of science teaching and learning as
a socio-cultural activity, it is up to us as global citizens, a community of
practitioners and learners to see it as an object worthy of a desirable
outcome (a safe and sustainable global ecosystem.)This issue of opposing the
destruction of the Pascua-Lama glaciers, in the Huasco region of Chile and
the San Juan region of Argentina is an excellent example for taking science
education beyond the sterile borders of schools and the crystal palaces of
academia to a very high level - politicization. It is global science
education that is likely to have far-reaching impacts. I will do my part in
alerting and writing to relevant networks and stakeholders.
Thanks for playing your part in finding a solution to a present-day,
real-world science conundrum.
Leroy
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Leroy C. Clarke
Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum Teaching & Learning
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Room 11-235, 252 Bloor Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1V6
Tel: 905-432-7792
Email: lclarke@oise.utoronto.ca or leroy.clarke@durhamrc.edu.on.ca
Listen to Life Changing Radio: http://www.lifetalk.net/listenHere.html
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-----Original Message-----
Dear Friends
Please help to diffuminate this information. What Barrick Gold is doing is
really outraging. Don't do it only for us, do it for you. The destruction of
these glaciers puts the whole humanity in peril.
David
Urgent Environmental Alert:
Protect the Glaciers of the South of the World!!
Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama Project
Dear friends, in organizations and networks,
In the highest reaches of the South American Andes, on the border of Chile
and Argentina, there are eternal snow glaciers of the purest water in the
world. One of these, in Pascua-Lama, in the Huasco region of Chile and the
San Juan region of Argentina, will be soon destroyed unless we act quickly.
Applying the laws of the Mining Treaty between Chile and Argentina, an
agreement made practically in secret between both countries during the
presidencies of Carlos Menem and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Barrick Gold
Corporation, through its subsidiaries Compañía Minera Nevada S.A. of Chile,
Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A. and Exploraciones Mineras Argentinas
S.A, will extract gold, silver, copper and mercury in a open-pit strip mine
in the delicate high Andes bioregion directly upon the Argentina-Chile
border, destroying the glaciers which have nourished the region for
thousands of years and irreversibly damaging the ecosystems and life of the
indigenous (Diaguita) communities.
The United Nations and other world organizations have said over and over
that the right to water is essential to life, equivalent to any other human
right. According to international agreements on the right to water, the
State must guarantee the preservation of the water sources for future
generations. Pascua-Lama’s glaciers constitute a natural reserve for fresh
water for the San Guillermo UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere site. This in a
time when more than a billion persons worldwide do not have access to water
(UN 1992).
These glaciers constitute a precious source of environmental knowledge,
unique in that they carry information of flora, fauna, and the history of
many thousands of years of the region of the South Andes.
The mining exploitation will not only ruin the water reserves, but also will
irreversibly damage the way of life of the Diaguita people, who have lived
in the now-affected zones for many hundreds of years. The strip-mining will
damage the environment of ancestral lands of these indigenous people of the
Americas.
We are convinced that the destruction of these glaciers will not only affect
ourselves and the Diaguita communities, but will also affect all of
humanity, because we think that all are equal victims of this attack against
historical, cultural and ecological patrimony of the South world. This is
the first glacier to be destroyed in the South Andes. Surely after this will
come many others.
We will not permit the authorities of the state to authorize this
exploitation without the necessary international protection, adoption and
guarantee of our human rights.
We think that there is no other solution than to create alliances,
associations and work together to do what is necessary to absolutely stop
this project, to prevent the damage to the glaciers, to the ecosystem and
the memory of the Diaguita people, for the preservation of the historical
identity of Argentina, Chile and Latin America.
We invite members of international networks to be part of the activity of
this struggle to defend the environment and the history of our people. This
project is in an important step in the approval process on the part of
environmental authorities of Chile. For this, it is necessary that you take
action as quickly as possible.
The glaciers are our right and our children’s right.
We need to count on your solidarity:
1. Forward this Alert to every network, organization, and friend to raise
public consciousness over the need to stop this attack on humanity.
2. Send an e-mail to the following addresses demanding that they
indefinitely suspend all mining activity in the area, for the preservation
of biodiversity, the indigenous historical patrimony, and for the water for
future generations.
ARGENTINA
webmaster(at)presidencia.gov.ar Presidente Néstor Carlos Kirchner
daniel.scioli(at)senado.gov.ar Presidente del Senado Daniel Osvaldo Scioli
spministro(at)msal.gov.ar Ministro de Salud y Ambiente Ginés González García
CHILE
opinión(at)presidencia.cl Presidente Ricardo Lagos Escobar
sromero(at)senado.cl Presidente del Senado, Sen. Sergio Romero
ascencio(at)congreso.cl Presidente Cámara de Diputados Dip. Gabriel Ascencio
informacion(at)conama.cl Director CONAMA
pavila.3(at)conama.cl Director COREMA III Región Plácido Avila Castro
Organismos Internacionales
cidhoea(at)oas.org Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
amedeo.buonajuti(at)unep.org Programa Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
urgent-action(at)ohchr.org Comité del PIDESC – ONU
ngochr(at)ohchr.org Alto Comisionado de Derecho Humanos
3. Sign on to this alert by sending an e-mail to: cpadilla(at)rdc.cl,
dcarrasco(at)fdla.cl, or defensadelambiente(at)yahoo.es, enabling it to be
presented before the States and International Organisations.
4. Distribute this Alert to all the States that maintain diplomatic
relations with Chile and Argentina, their embassies and consulates, and
relevant international, regional, and subregional organizations, for the
adoption of urgent measures and immediate actions aimed at the total
suspension of mining activity in this location.
5. Adopt all other initiatives and affirmative actions towards the
environmental protection of the glaciers and their ecosystem. To all the
states, institutions, international organizations, networks, and
organizations of the world.
Cesar Padilla
Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales OLCA
Diego Carrasco
Fundación Ciudadana para las Américas
Luis Alejandro Rojas
Movimiento por los Derechos Ciudadanos.
Jenia Jofré Canobra
CODEFF Amigos de la Tierra Chile
Jorge Capatto
FATAR, Federación de Amigos de la Tierra Argentina
Jürguen Rottmann
CODEFF Amigos de la Tierra Chile
Oscar Rivas
SOBREVIVENCIA Amigos de la Tierra Paraguay
Tatiana Roa
CENSAT, Amigos de la Tierra Colombia
Juan Pablo Lazo Ureta
Claudio Lopez
Analía Cócolo
Capítulo Argentino de la PIDHDD – Argentina
Fernando Rodríguez
Capítulo Boliviano de la PIDHDD – Bolivia
Regina Méndez
Capítulo Mexicano de la PIDHDD – México
Carlos Tamup
Capítulo Guatemalteco de la PIDHDD – Guatemala
Soledad Villagra
Capítulo Paraguayo de la PIDHDD – Paraguay
Natalia Paredes
Plataforma Colombiana de la PIDHDD – Colombia
Alexis Ponce
Capítulo Ecuatoriano de la PIDHDD – Ecuador
David Preiss
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Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile: www.puc.cl
PACE Center at Yale University: www.yale.edu/pace
Homepage: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ddp6/
Phone: 56-2-3544605
Fax: 56-2-354-4844
E-mail: david.preiss@yale.edu, davidpreiss@puc.cl
From: David Preiss [mailto:davidpreiss@puc.cl]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:48 PM
To: mjudson@ucsd.edu
Cc: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: Urgent Environmental Alert
Sounds like a great idea, Marie.
Thank you very much!
David
David Preiss
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Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile: www.puc.cl
PACE Center at Yale University: www.yale.edu/pace
Homepage: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ddp6/
Phone: 56-2-3544605
Fax: 56-2-354-4844
E-mail: david.preiss@yale.edu, davidpreiss@puc.cl
-----Original Message-----
From: Marie Judson [mailto:mjudson@ucsd.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:39 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Urgent Environmental Alert
David, I'm going to pass this on to my son's high
school biology teacher. Maybe he will launch a
concerted project on it. (They're studying biospheres
and threat to biodiversity right now!)
Regards,
Marie
--- David Preiss <davidpreiss@puc.cl> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear Friends
> Please help to diffuminate this information. What
> Barrick Gold is doing
> is really outraging. Don't do it only for us, do it
> for you. The
> destruction of these glaciers puts the whole
> humanity in peril.
> David
>
> Urgent Environmental Alert:
> Protect the Glaciers of the South of the World!!
>
>
> Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama Project
>
>
> Dear friends, in organizations and networks,
>
> In the highest reaches of the South American Andes,
> on the border of
> Chile and Argentina, there are eternal snow glaciers
> of the purest water
> in the world. One of these, in Pascua-Lama, in the
> Huasco region of
> Chile and the San Juan region of Argentina, will be
> soon destroyed
> unless we act quickly.
>
> Applying the laws of the Mining Treaty between Chile
> and Argentina, an
> agreement made practically in secret between both
> countries during the
> presidencies of Carlos Menem and Eduardo Frei
> Ruiz-Tagle, Barrick Gold
> Corporation, through its subsidiaries Compañía
> Minera Nevada S.A. of
> Chile, Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A. and
> Exploraciones Mineras
> Argentinas S.A, will extract gold, silver, copper
> and mercury in a
> open-pit strip mine in the delicate high Andes
> bioregion directly upon
> the Argentina-Chile border, destroying the glaciers
> which have nourished
> the region for thousands of years and irreversibly
> damaging the
> ecosystems and life of the indigenous (Diaguita)
> communities.
>
> The United Nations and other world organizations
> have said over and over
> that the right to water is essential to life,
> equivalent to any other
> human right. According to international agreements
> on the right to
> water, the State must guarantee the preservation of
> the water sources
> for future generations. Pascua-Lama’s glaciers
> constitute a natural
> reserve for fresh water for the San Guillermo UNESCO
> World Heritage
> Biosphere site. This in a time when more than a
> billion persons
> worldwide do not have access to water (UN 1992).
>
> These glaciers constitute a precious source of
> environmental knowledge,
> unique in that they carry information of flora,
> fauna, and the history
> of many thousands of years of the region of the
> South Andes.
>
> The mining exploitation will not only ruin the water reserves, but
> also will irreversibly damage the way of life of the
> Diaguita people, who
> have lived in the now-affected zones for many
> hundreds of years. The
> strip-mining will damage the environment of
> ancestral lands of these
> indigenous people of the Americas.
>
> We are convinced that the destruction of these
> glaciers will not only
> affect ourselves and the Diaguita communities, but
> will also affect all
> of humanity, because we think that all are equal
> victims of this attack
> against historical, cultural and ecological
> patrimony of the South
> world. This is the first glacier to be destroyed in
> the South Andes.
> Surely after this will come many others.
>
> We will not permit the authorities of the state to
> authorize this
> exploitation without the necessary international
> protection, adoption
> and guarantee of our human rights.
>
> We think that there is no other solution than to
> create alliances,
> associations and work together to do what is
> necessary to absolutely
> stop this project, to prevent the damage to the
> glaciers, to the
> ecosystem and the memory of the Diaguita people, for
> the preservation of
> the historical identity of Argentina, Chile and
> Latin America.
>
> We invite members of international networks to be
> part of the activity
> of this struggle to defend the environment and the
> history of our
> people. This project is in an important step in the
> approval process on
> the part of environmental authorities of Chile. For
> this, it is
> necessary that you take action as quickly as
> possible.
>
> The glaciers are our right and our children’s right.
>
>
> We need to count on your solidarity:
>
>
> 1. Forward this Alert to every network,
> organization, and friend to
> raise public consciousness over the need to stop
> this attack on
> humanity.
>
> 2. Send an e-mail to the following addresses
> demanding that they
> indefinitely suspend all mining activity in the
> area, for the
> preservation of biodiversity, the indigenous
> historical patrimony, and
> for the water for future generations.
>
> ARGENTINA
> webmaster(at)presidencia.gov.ar
> <mailto://webmaster@presidencia.gov.ar>
> Presidente Néstor Carlos Kirchner
> daniel.scioli(at)senado.gov.ar
> <mailto:daniel.scioli@senado.gov.ar>
> Presidente del Senado Daniel Osvaldo Scioli
> spministro(at)msal.gov.ar
> <mailto:spministro@msal.gov.ar> Ministro de
> Salud y Ambiente Ginés González García
>
> CHILE
> opinión(at)presidencia.cl
> <mailto:opini%97n@presidencia.cl> Presidente
> Ricardo Lagos Escobar
> sromero(at)senado.cl <mailto:sromero@senado.cl>
> Presidente del Senado,
> Sen. Sergio Romero
> ascencio(at)congreso.cl <mailto:sromero@senado.cl>
> Presidente Cámara de
> Diputados Dip. Gabriel Ascencio
> informacion(at)conama.cl <mailto:sromero@senado.cl>
> Director CONAMA
> pavila.3(at)conama.cl <mailto:pavila.3@conama.cl>
> Director COREMA III
> Región Plácido Avila Castro
>
> Organismos Internacionales
> cidhoea(at)oas.org <mailto:cidhoea@oas.org>
> Comisión Interamericana de
> Derechos Humanos
> amedeo.buonajuti(at)unep.org
> <mailto:amedeo.buonajuti@unep.org>
> Programa Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
> urgent-action(at)ohchr.org
> <mailto:urgent-action@ohchr.org> Comité del
> PIDESC – ONU
> ngochr(at)ohchr.org <mailto:ngochr@ohchr.org> Alto
> Comisionado de
> Derecho Humanos
>
> 3. Sign on to this alert by sending an e-mail to: cpadilla(at)rdc.cl
> <mailto:ngochr@ohchr.org> , dcarrasco(at)fdla.cl
> <mailto:dcarrasco@fdla.cl> , or
> defensadelambiente(at)yahoo.es
> <mailto:defensadelambiente@yahoo.es> , enabling it
> to be presented
> before the States and International Organisations.
>
> 4. Distribute this Alert to all the States that
> maintain diplomatic
> relations with Chile and Argentina, their embassies
> and consulates, and
> relevant international, regional, and subregional organizations, for
> the
>
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Marie Judson
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Communication
UCSD, Mailcode 0503
858.643.9090
mjudson@ucsd.edu
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