Urgent actions announced through the campaign
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Ibagué, 11 May 2013
Señores accionistas:
En este momento, cuando ustedes evalúan el desarrollo de sus proyectos en Colombia, nos parece importante que incluyan en su análisis elementos de una realidad ambiental, social y humana, que seguramente no llegará a ustedes por la voz y los informes de quienes administran sus proyectos en nuestro país.
Quienes suscribimos este mensaje, somos organizaciones y personas, particularmente afectadas por el proyecto de la Colosa, (ubicado en el municipio de Cajamarca, Tolima) pero también, preocupadas seriamente por una política gubernamental que asociada con ustedes, pretende expandir, en nuestra región y por todo el territorio colombiano, las explotaciones mineras a cielo abierto.
Desde el momento en que el gobierno concibió esa política, hace 8 años, se ha generado una gran movilización ciudadana que rechaza la megaminería como horizonte para el desarrollo de nuestro país, y con más vehemencia ahora, cuando son claros los hechos y señales de la minería y de la sed del oro, que confirman su carácter de elementos altamente perturbadores del orden social, de la paz, de la soberanía territorial y de la equidad.
Tres son los puntos centrales de nuestro mensaje para ustedes:
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COMITE AMBIENTAL Y CAMPESINO DE CAJAMARCA
100 years defending the land
Press release: Monday, 25 February 2013
Item: Threats, stigmatisation and criminalisation of the campesino social movement of Anaime and Cajamarca, which opposes AngloGold Ashanti’s La Colosa project in Colombia.
We, the environmental and campesino committee of Cajamarca, the Environmental Committee for the Defence of Life (Comité Ambiental por la Defensa de la Vida) and the organisations and groups that are voicing our opposition about the dangers of the La Colosa Regional mining project of the company AngloGold Ashanti, report the following facts to the Tolimense community, and the national and international community:
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The Bogotá office of Colombian human rights organization COSPACC was robbed and looted. Electronic and hard-copy files containing information about human rights violations are missing.
On 23rd of January, after entering the building, COSPACC managers noticed that their office doors were opened and locks were damaged. The managers immediately called the police and with their presence entered the offices. They found that the drawers of the desks, library and archive were opened; external hard drives and memory sticks with electronic archives, hard-copy files and photo cameras were taken.
COSPACC workers have noticed that the main entry door to the building was not damaged and that some valuable items, such as computers, were not stolen from the office.
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Joint urgent action request from Colombia Solidarity Campaign, London Mining Network and War on Want. London 6 November 2012
Three huge mining companies listed on the London Stcok Exchange own Colombian company Cerrejon Coal, operator of the Cerrejon opencast coal mine in the department of La Guajira in Colombia. Mine expansion over the years has caused forced displacement of agricultural communities, and more communities face displacement for further expansion. Cerrejon Coal also want to divert the River Rancheria, the only river of any significant size in La Guajira, in order to get at coal underneath its bed. Local communities fear an ecological disaster.
A debate on mining is scheduled in the Colombian Senate on 14 November. Please send the following letter, or a similar letter, to the Chief Executive Officers of the three London-listed companies, and to the Colombian government departments, listed below the letter, BEFORE 14 November.
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The Agricultural Association of Santander denounce the reiterated threat to the leaders of ASOGRAS to the national and international community, and human rights organisations.
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MOVICE, 15 December 2011, Colombia
The National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) denounces and opposes the serious harassment and threats against various members of the Tolima Branch from the month of June until the present. These instances of harassment are taking place against the backdrop of actions in support of student demonstrations, the demands for the protection of the territory in Cajamarca against the multinational AngloGold Ashanti, and the organisation of and participation in the International Verification Mission, which took place as part of the Campaign for the Right to Defend between 28 and November 30, in which organisations and parliamentarians from various countries in Europe, Latin America and the United States investigated the human rights situation in Colombia.
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7 January, 2010
We, the organizations signing below, inform the international and national community of the following:
Texted Death Threats to Martha Giraldo and Aida Quilcue
At 9.39pm on 30th December 2010, the following text message was received by Martha Giraldo, coordinator of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes Valle del Cauca branch (MOVICE), and Aida Quilcue, ex-leader of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (CRIC) and the Minga of Social and Communitarian Resistance:
“guerrilla rats, this is how we wanted to have you, cornered and crying for help all over the place. MOVICE, ECATE, CUT, NOMADESC, death to you communist dogs.
Tonight at midnight we start with Martha Giraldo, Berenice, Luz Marina, Cristina, the Indian Quilcue, Yon, Posso, Wilson and with every one of your children.
Black Eagles cleansing the country of these communist sons of bitches, you won’t see the New Year.”
The message was sent from the same number which has been used to send previous threats to the same organisations.
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Santiago de Cali, 6th January 2011
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PLEASE SUPPORT THE STUDENTS, LECTURERS AND COMMUNITY OF TOLIMA SO THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE CAJAMARCA MINE CAN BE RESEARCHED OBJECTIVELY AND INDEPENDENTLY.
Students and lecturers at the University of Tolima in Ibagué, Colombia, are voicing their strong opposition to the imminent signing of a contract with AngloGold Ashanti worth £500K/year to carry out the environmental monitoring of the Cajamarca La Colosa gold mine, currently in the exploration phase. AngloGold Ashanti, which was fined last year for not requesting all the necessary environmental permits for the exploration, is now stipulating that any research results must be kept confidential by the university, thereby jeopardizing the objectivity of the study. The projected site of the Cajamarca gold mine, in the central Colombian mountains, includes an area of forest reserve and 161 water sources. It is an important agricultural hub for the whole country. The results of the exploration so far indicate that the gold mine would be the largest in South America. Opencast mining exploitation, planned to start in three years’ time, would result in complete destruction of the ecosystem. The use of cyanide to treat the gold ore would inevitably contaminate water sources for a large area of the Tolima department. The Machín Volcano a few kilometres from Cajamarca presents a potential unimaginable ecological disaster for the region.
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