RIGHTS ACTION: "Goldcorp Workers Bussed to Pro-Coup Marches"

[magbana]

Rights Action has been doing good reporting and commentary as events unfold and has people on the ground monitoring the situation. They are also a reliable vehicle through which to get money to the organizations fighting for the restoration of democracy in Honduras.

GOLDCORP WORKERS BUSSED TO PRO-COUP MARCHES

Since the June 28 coup, the private sector - grouped in an umbrella group the "Movement of Peace and Democracy" - has been organizing pro-coup marches. Some Hondurans have recently given public information that buses are coming into poorer neighborhoods and that Movement organizers are paying people between 100 and 200 lempiras ($5 - $10) to participate in the pro-coup rallies.
Since 2003, Rights Action has been involved in work to document and denounce the environmental and health harms and human rights violations being caused by Goldcorp Inc' open pit, cyanide leeching "San Martin" mine, in the Siria Valley, department of Francisco Morazan, an hour and a half north of Tegucigalpa.
From our partner group, the Committee for the Defense of the Environment in the Siria Valley, Rights Action has learned that Entremares employees (Entremares being Goldcorp’s wholly owned subsidiary) from the “San Martin” mine have been taken, on a number of occasions since the June 28 coup, to participate in pro-coup regime marches in Tegucigalpa organized by the “Movement for Peace and Democracy”. Goldcorp (Entremares) pays for the transportation and at least one meal for the workers to attend.
More information to come ...
http://www.rightsaction.org/Alerts/Honduran_coup_alert19_070809.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. At the risk of providing a rich resource of lavish pleasure for a couple of trolls,

here's a link with images showing just how much good the GoldCorp mining operation is doing for the local residents in Honduras with their cyanide leeching process:

http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/photo_Honduras_mining_harms.html

http://bario-neal.com.nyud.net:8090/bn/media/upload/2009/04/05.jpg
What a shame they're paying off poor people to help create the illusion of support for the filthy coup. Keeping a supply of desperately poor people on hand always means you're going to be able to get them to fight wars for you, do all your work for almost nothing, and serve you endlessly, It's all win, for the greedy.