Coffee Hour: Resource and Extraction-Gold Mining in Guatemala as Case Study 3/5
Date: Saturday, March 5th/2011
La Conexión de las Américas (a merger of Resource Center of The Americas and La Conexión)
From 10:00am to 11:45am
Language: English
Description
Civil war. Subversion of democracy. Resource extraction. Two representatives of a Twin Cities-based nonprofit organization will be at the RCTA coffeehour on March 5 to discuss their organization’s findings on these subjects and efforts to tell this all-too-familiar story through the production of a documentary film about gold mining in the Western highlands of Guatemala. This is a story about how lives in North America are connected to the lives of people living in the shadow of gold mines in Latin America. (Visit www.gprojectfilm.org for more info on and an opportunity to support the project.)
Thom Haines, a representative of the organization’s board, will lead a discussion about the issues addressed by the film including how, and why, North American transnationals operate with significant political, financial, environmental and criminal impunity in Guatemala. Joining him will be one of the film’s producers, whose previous titles include Pond Hockey and Forgotten Miracle.
Biography:
Thom is an attorney at the Carver County Attorney’s Office who has been traveling to Guatemala since 1989 with Sister Parish, Rights Action, and Mayflower Church in South Minneapolis.
Facilitator:
Julia Irwin
Contact:
Thom Haines
Email: thom.haines@comcast.net
Phone: 952-835-7246
