OFF TOPIC? - Pl. read the following petition and if you feel it is right, pl. sign and forward it to your friends!

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Dear Friends,

 

Sai Ram. I received the following mail from a friend

in one of the several groups in which I am a member. I

felt that the cause is good and is worth supporting.

If any of you is from that place or know more about

it, you may like to confirm or deny the truth in the

following petition. If it true, I request you to

kindly act. If it is not true, pl. advise us so that

it is killed without spreading.

 

Thanking you,

 

Swamy

 

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Dear friends who care about our earth.

 

In theValle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile

runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2

glaciers. Water is a most precious resource, and wars

will be fought for it.

Indigenous farmers use the water, there is no

unemployment, and they provide the

second largest source of income for the area.

 

Under the glaciers has been found a huge deposit of

gold, silver and other

minerals. To get at these, it would be necessary to

break, to destroy the glaciers -

something never conceived of in the history of the

world - and to make 2 huge

holes, each as big as a whole mountain, one for

extraction and one for the mine's rubbish tip. The

project is called PASCUA LAMA. The company is called

Barrick Gold. The operation is planned by a

multi-national company, one of whose members is George

Bush Senior.

 

The Chilean Government has approved the project to

start this year, 2006.

The only reason it hasn't started yet is because the

farmers have got a

temporary stay of execution.

 

If they destroy the glaciers, they will not just

destroy the source of especially pure water, but they

will permanently contaminate the 2 rivers so they will

never again be fit for humanor animal consumption

because of the use of cyanide and sulphuric acid in

the extraction process. Every last gram of gold will

go abroad to the multinational company and not one

will be left with the people whose land

it is. They will only be left with the poisoned water

and the resulting

illnesses. The farmers have been fighting a long time

for their land,

but have been forbidden to make a TV appeal by a ban

from the Ministry of

the Interior. Their only hope now of putting brakes on

this project

is to get help from international justice.

 

The world must know what is happening in Chile. The

only place to start changing the world is from here.

We ask you to circulate this message amongst your

friends in the following way.

 

Please copy this text, paste it into a new email

adding your signature

and send it to everyone in your address book. Please,

will the 100th

person to receive and sign the petition, send it to

noapascualama to be forwarded to the Chilean

Government.

 

No to Pascua Lama Open-cast mine in the Andean

Cordillera on the

Chilean-Argentine frontier. We ask the Chilean

Government not to authorize

the Pascua Lama project to protect the whole of 3

glaciers, the purity of

the water of the San Felix Valley and El Transito, the

quality of the

agricultural land of the region of Atacama, the

quality of life of the

Diaguita people and of the whole population of the

region.

 

Signature, City, Country

 

1) Katharine Proudfoot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

2) Laura Cole, London, UK

3) David Platt,London, UK

4) Diane Platt, Manchester, UK

5) Tanya Corker, Manchester, UK

6) Nicola Hargreaves, UK

7) Nicholas Jones, UK

8) Johann Don-Daniel, Germany

9) Ashley Berger, Germany

10) Sarah Downie, Leeds, UK

11) Paula Delahunty, Bingley, UK

12) John O'Driscoll, Bingley, Uk

13) Jordan-Lee Delahunty, Bingley, UK

14) Claire Mulvey, Bradford, UK

15) Marie Malcolm Bradford, UK

16) Ann Clowes, Halifax UK

17) Jayne McGee, Brighouse UK

18) Jason Barratt Oldham UK

19) Lindsay Torrance, Rochdale UK

20) Maggie Ford, Rochdale, U.K.

21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, U.K.

22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, U.K.

23) Lisa Stuart, Potes, Spain.

24) Michael Stuart, Potes, Spain.

25) Renee Engl, Byron Bay, Australia

26) Adrian Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia

27) Riana Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia

28) Oriel Paterson, Brunswick Heads, Australia

29) Alicia Paterson, Brisbane, Australia

30) Lyneve Robinson, Sydney, Australia

31) Jennifer Moalem, Sydney, Australia

32) Alexandra Pope, Sydney Australia

33) Shushann Movsessian, Sydney Australia

34) Amanda Frost, Sydney, Australia

35) Chris Liddell, Sydney, Australia

36) Jade Deegan, Sydney, Australia

37) Jo Satori, Sydney, Australia

38) Philip Higson, Sydney, Australia

39 Cheryl Kemp, Dorrigo, Australia

40) Chris Peacock, Maitland, Australia

41) Gloria Peacock, Maitland, Australia

42) Helen McCall, Duns Creek, Australia

43) Raquel Carvajal, Arncliffe, Australia :-)

44) Rolando Ramos, Arncliffe, Australia

45) Martin Ramos, Paddington, Australia

46) Jade Carden, Leichhardt, Australia

47) Kira Carden, Leichhardt, Australia

48) Lilian Flores, Arncliffe, Australia

49) Juana Venegas, Enmore Australia

50) Rebeca Carmona, Illawarra, Australia

51) Osvaldo Alfaro, Illawarra, Australia

52) Gustavo Mártin Montenegro, Canberra,

Australia

53) Rodrigo Andres Martin-Silva, Stanmore,

Australia

54) Alison Evans, Hull, UK

55) Luci Rutledge, Leeds, UK

56) Beth Goodey, Bristol, UK

57) Joe Green, Cardiff

58) Hannah Hayman, London, UK

59) Natalie May, Bath, UK

60) Ivan Villegas,Guadalajara,Mexico

61) Cynthia Campbell, Quebec, Canada

62) David Cumings, Jordan Vally, Israel.

63) Rotem Even Zahav, Israel

64) Tamar Wolfe, Israel

65) Michal Marcus, Israel

66) anatt gorodetsky, israel

67) Juana Rojas Kranz, Jericoacoara, Brasil

68) Graciela Rojas Estupiñan, Cali, Colombia

69) David Kranz, Graz, Austria

70) Johannes Kranz, Granada, Nicaragua

71) Juan Eli Rodriguez, Granada, Nicaragua

72)Ana Mojica, Miami,Florida USA

73) Jennifer Jenson, Wisconsin USA

74) Lois Jenson, Wisconsin USA

75) Bonnie Haleen, Idaho USA

76) Lucy D'Mot, Placerville,California USA

77) Kathleen Sales, Cameron Park, California USA

78) S.V.Swamy, Hyderabad, India

 

in search of truth and with prayers to Govinda to help reach that goal in this

life itself, and with best wishes to you that your goals may be reached,

 

yours sincerely,