stickers!

We're doing a sticker campaign at Oberlin to raise awareness about mining in El Salvador. We decided on these stickers (the formatting's a little off here, but you get the idea):

“Podemos vivir sin oro, pero no sin agua” – “We can live without gold, but not without water”

In its 10 years of planned operation, the proposed El Dorado gold mine in El Salvador would use almost 240,000 gallons of water each day—enough in just one day to provide water for a Salvadoran family for 30 years. (CISPES)

Check out Headwaters to read more about El Salvador and mining.

Oberlin in Solidarity with El Salvador, Spring 2010

"Podemos vivir sin oro, pero no sin agua” – “We can live without gold, but not without water”

The proposed El Dorado gold mine in El Salvador would use 38 tons of cyanide per day, which could contaminate river water, soil, and air, and cause health problems like brain and heart damage. (CISPES)

Check out Headwaters to read more about El Salvador and mining.

Oberlin in Solidarity with El Salvador, Spring 2010

I called Pacific Rim to protest unjust gold mining in El Salvador.

Call Barbara Henderson, Vice President of Investor Relations at Pacific Rim Mining and tell her that the company has the moral responsibility to leave Cabañas immediately. Dial 1- (888) 775-7097, then press 1.

Oberlin in Solidarity with El Salvador, Spring 2010

Since 2005, community organizing efforts have successfully blocked Canadian Pacific Rim Mining Corporation’s application for gold mining permits in Cabañas, El Salvador. In response, death threats, kidnapping attempts and assassinations against anti-mining activists continue. Pacific Rim has retaliated by filing a $77 million lawsuit against El Salvador for denying gold mining permits, using the Central America Free Trade Agreement’s (CAFTA) investor protections provisions. (CISPES)

Check out Headwaters to read more about El Salvador and mining.

Oberlin in Solidarity with El Salvador, Spring 2010

meeting notes 4/18/10

Sticker campaign:
Casey will check on how to make stickers at copy shop (done)
decided to concentrate on mining
can make "I called Pacific Rim to protest..." stickers, too.

Call-in potluck:
6pm May 10
Marlee will check on food policy for Wilder (done: reserved room in Wilder)
plan publicity at next meeting
Mari will make a 8.5x11 poster using the great photo she has
student panel: Mari, Raquel, Phoebe(?)
we'll all make food
advertise: classes, listservs, majors, 8.5x11s around
put the date in Headwaters article
Phoebe said over email tabling could be good

Headwaters article:
in the revisions process, will come out in the next couple weeks

Nicsis update:
working on banana stuff, probably interested in doing stickers along with us
decided to have a joint meeting where we update each other and brainstorm
possibility to do tabling together: bananas and mining stuff

Meeting notes 4/11/10

- By the next meeting, will have facts about impact of US consumerism on ES for sticker campaign:
• · consumption & policy: drugs/weapons (Emma, email Meredith), tobacco (Casey), gold/mining/CAFTA/Pacific Rim (Christina), coffee (Laura), Immigration policy & gangs (Raquel)
• · anyone else who is committed to a certain fact being around campus should definitely bring it to the next meeting!
- Mining article: Phoebe and Mari are coordinating: they are awesome.
- Call-in day potluck:
• · Christina will email CISPES to find out when the next national call-in day is and book Int'l House for that day
• · How to get the word out:
o o little flyers
o o facebook
o - class announcements, majors emails, word of mouth
- Need an update by next week on speaker ideas from Meredith and Julia. Would love to do something with mining. If we can't get a speaker, we could do something else:
• · maybe a student forum
• · maybe a teach in
• - or a panel: Volk, ENVS teacher, oses folks
-sign up for the blog! if you become a member, you can make posts to your heart's content!
-Next meeting Sunday, 4/18/10 7:00-7:45pm Int'l House. Sticker facts "due." Distributing the stickers the week after.