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Thursday January 01 1970

Latin America Week - Public Talk: Social and environmental impact of mega-extractive industries: the cases of Peru (La Conga) and Colombia

category dublin | environment | event notice author Friday March 15, 2013 15:00author by Latin America Solidarity Centre - Latin America Solidarity Centre (LASC)author email events at lasc dot ieauthor address 5, Merrion Row - Dublin 2author phone +353-1-6760435 Report this post to the editors

Conference as part of the 8th Annual Anarchist BookFair

Saturday, 6th April 2013

Venue: Red Room, Room 2, Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin

The Latin America Solidarity Centre announces its annual
Latin America Week: 5th – 13th April 2013
"Digging at the heart of Mother Earth: The social and environmental impact of mega-extractive industries"

Speakers: Aida Julieta Quiñones Torres, Milton Sánchez.

Milton Sánchez Cubas
Native to the province of Celendín, department of Cajamarca, Peru. Milton is the 31-year-old president of the Plataforma Interinstitucional Celendina (PIC) (Inter-institutional Platform of Celendin) - a body that brings together 40 social organizations from Celendín. He is also the ´Comando Unitario de Lucha´ (Spokesman for the Command Control Unit of the campaign), which is the body that brings together the defense fronts of the Cajamarca Region. This body leads the defense of our natural resources endangered by the extractive industry in our region.

Milton is an accountant by profession, specializing in governance, local development and citizen participation. He has also been involved in youth organizations at a national and regional level (such as his role as Secretary General of the Regional Youth Council in the Cajamarca region). He is dealing with approximately 40 lawsuits against him from the mining company and the government, and is one of the more than three hundred victims of judicial persecution for defending our natural resources.

Aida Julieta Quiñones Torres
Colombia - Lecturer and PhD student in Universidad Javeriana. Member of the Environmental Committee for the Defense of Life which monitors the socio-environmental impact of the La Colosa mine, in the department of Tolima, Colombia. Aida is a militant researcher on the issue of resistance to 3 mining mega-projects in Colombia:

- the gold mine of La Colosa, Cajamarca-Tolima - population: small farming communities. Transnational Anglo gold Ashanti has been carrying out illegal explorations with a view to have one of the biggest open cast mines in South America. The mine is in a natural reserve. In previous projects in this mine, a family - including a baby - was murdered by state agents.

More info:
http://www.lasc.ie/content/latin-america-week-2013-0

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