\nEthnic Cultural Center at the UW
\n3931 Brooklyn Ave NE<\/a>, Black Room
\nFREE EVENT<\/p>\n
Let the Communities Decide!<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n – More than 600,000 people participating in community consultations have voted NO to the expansion of harmful mining projects in Guatemala. With a photo exhibit by James Rodriguez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Hosted by the UU Central America<\/a> Network and Seattle CISPES<\/a>.\u00a0 Co-sponsored by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights<\/a>, the UW Student Labor Action Project<\/a>, Casa Latina<\/a>, and the Community Alliance for Global Justice. A panel discussion featuring Guatemalan indigenous community leader Pascual Bernabe Vel\u00e1squez Assembly of Huehuetenango in Defense of Natural Resources Friday, March 5, 2010 | 6:30 \u2013 8:30pm Ethnic Cultural Center at the UW 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Black Room FREE EVENT Maya-Q’anjob’al women vote to express their opposition to mining\u00a0 in a community consultation in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Maya-Q'anjob'al](\"http:\/\/seattlecispes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/consulta_cropped-1024x498.jpg\" "\\"consulta_cropped\\"")
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\nMaya-Q’anjob’al women vote to express their opposition to mining\u00a0 in a community consultation in Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala\u00a0 in August, 2006. (Phil Neff photo)<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n– In his presentation, Pascual Bernabe Vel\u00e1squez will speak about the consulta<\/em> movement and civil resistance against the expansion of mining projects in Guatemala.
\n– At the same time, mining companies are using DR-CAFTA to sue the government of El Salvador for refusing to approve mining projects.<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking tour organized by Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"