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"return to sender" anti-mining/anti-fast-track policies protest, bangor, maine
i’ve been wanting to post about this event for a while. i’ve hesitated because there’s a definite seriousness to the topic of this photo, and i’ve been wanting to make sure that i get the issues straight.
my friends in the bangor, maine area are involved with a sister-city project with radio activists from the chalatenango region of el salvador. pictured here is rosa dubon at the podium, who along with miriam ayala (in the salmon-colored shirt, on the left) is part of weru-fm’s sister station, radio sumpul, in the town of guarjila.
the problems that led to civil war in el salvador that raged throughout the 1980s have certainly not gone away. on my 2nd day in maine (wednesday, june 20th), there was a demonstration at the federal building in bangor protesting the efforts of the vancouver-based tribune resources corporation to begin gold-mining operations in el salvador, which threatens chalatenango’s environment & its entire rural culture.
the theme of this demonstration – ya basta! enough!
participants also were mailing back mining tags dropped by tribune resources corp. surveyors along the salvadoran hillside -- hence the slogan, “return to sender.”
speeches also addressed fast-track trade treaties that are consistently undermining local political efforts to protect the health and human rights of communities throughout the americas. these are labelled “unfair trade barriers” by entities like the world trade organization.
activists are seeking to create fair-trade policies, not so-called “free-trade” treaties that sell out innate political rights to international capital.
what is more, since my visit, and this protest, social-justice organizers associated with activists like dubon & ayala have been rounded up by the right-wing government of el salvador & charged under post-9/11 “anti-terrorism” laws in that country. this sort of political maneuver has become an issue more & more too, here in the states. recent bush administration executive orders make martial law all the more possible.
certainly, we’re all in this together, in the end. & even though a new crisis has emerged since this particular protest action, i still feel inspired, both by the international grassroots-media movement, and also by sister-city projects like i found in bangor.
(for more on all of these matters, go to elsalvadorsolidarity.org. & for a better account of what’s @ stake than i can manage, you might also listen to the work of my friends, weru-fm radio-producers amy browne & meredith defrancesco [pictured with microphones, left to right], on the weru programs “RadioActive,” “weekend voices,” & “indigenous voices.”)
my friends in the bangor, maine area are involved with a sister-city project with radio activists from the chalatenango region of el salvador. pictured here is rosa dubon at the podium, who along with miriam ayala (in the salmon-colored shirt, on the left) is part of weru-fm’s sister station, radio sumpul, in the town of guarjila.
the problems that led to civil war in el salvador that raged throughout the 1980s have certainly not gone away. on my 2nd day in maine (wednesday, june 20th), there was a demonstration at the federal building in bangor protesting the efforts of the vancouver-based tribune resources corporation to begin gold-mining operations in el salvador, which threatens chalatenango’s environment & its entire rural culture.
the theme of this demonstration – ya basta! enough!
participants also were mailing back mining tags dropped by tribune resources corp. surveyors along the salvadoran hillside -- hence the slogan, “return to sender.”
speeches also addressed fast-track trade treaties that are consistently undermining local political efforts to protect the health and human rights of communities throughout the americas. these are labelled “unfair trade barriers” by entities like the world trade organization.
activists are seeking to create fair-trade policies, not so-called “free-trade” treaties that sell out innate political rights to international capital.
what is more, since my visit, and this protest, social-justice organizers associated with activists like dubon & ayala have been rounded up by the right-wing government of el salvador & charged under post-9/11 “anti-terrorism” laws in that country. this sort of political maneuver has become an issue more & more too, here in the states. recent bush administration executive orders make martial law all the more possible.
certainly, we’re all in this together, in the end. & even though a new crisis has emerged since this particular protest action, i still feel inspired, both by the international grassroots-media movement, and also by sister-city projects like i found in bangor.
(for more on all of these matters, go to elsalvadorsolidarity.org. & for a better account of what’s @ stake than i can manage, you might also listen to the work of my friends, weru-fm radio-producers amy browne & meredith defrancesco [pictured with microphones, left to right], on the weru programs “RadioActive,” “weekend voices,” & “indigenous voices.”)
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