giovedì 12 maggio 2011

Protest: Mexican Consulate "In Defense of Mother Earth & Our Culture"


The Canadian mining company, First Majestic Silver Mining Company, by way of the Mexican Government has been granted access to 22 sacred sites and land of the Wixáritari people, the indigenous people of the land now known as western central Mexico.

From the Regional Wixarika Council for the Defense of Wirikuta:

After our sacred site of Wirikuta was ordered by governmental decree and a management plan that protects it, the (Mexican) government granted concessions to a Canadian mining company that threatens the Sierra of Catorce and the desert lowlands that comprise this sacred zone, in the municipalities of Charcas, Villa de la Paz, Villa de Ramos, Zacatón, Catorce, Matehuala and Villa de Guadalupe.

We have been for more than seven months demanding that the government of our country cancel the concessions of the mining company First Majestic or Real Bonanza in the Sierra of Catorce and we have heard no response from any of the municipal, state or federal institutions. So what good, then, are the agreements, the decrees, the management plans and the word of Felipe Calderón dressed as a Wixárika promising the protection of our sacred places at the hour of signing the pact of Hauxamanaka just two years ago?

We have been demanding for more than seven months and once again, we make our demand:

That the federal government cancel the 22 mining concessions to the Canadian company First Majestic Silver Corp. and its Mexican “prestanombres” (one who loans his name in order to conduct business), Real Bonanza S.A. de C.V. Mining, in this sacred place not only destroys a fundamental pillar of the Wixárika culture, it is an attack that brings as a consequence many natural disasters and death.

The mining company asks us to let them extract minerals from the sierra in exchange for giving us the Cerro Quemado. We explained to them that the Sierra of Catorce is a sacred whole and therefore it is impossible to mine the area and to respect the Quemado. From the South to the North, the sierra is a collection of kaka+yarixi or fundamental ancestors and the springs that are essential for the rain and the fertility of our country. Wirikuta free of mining and of projects that destroy her natural fragility is what we are demanding that the government enforce.

More info:

http://theesperanzaproject.org/2011/04/wirikuta-is-the-matrix-of-life-wi...

salvemoswirikuta.blogspot.com

noalamina.org

When: May 19th 2011 at Noon-2PM
Where: Mexican Consulate
2132 3rd Ave
Seattle, WA 98121

Contact: David Silva
davidsilvavillalobos@yahoo.com

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