We Stand In Solidarity Against Mine
This is the solidarity message I relayed to the People's Hearing on mining at the State Capitol yesterday from the community badly effected by mining in San Sebastian, El Salvador. A member of the pastoral team in San Sebastian had visited Ashland this past fall to discuss mining pollution in her community and to hear the concerns of the people of Ashland and the Bad River Reservation over proposed mining in their communities.
Signed,
Babette Grunow
Latin America Solidarity Committee
Dear friends from Wisconsin,
Receive our cordial greetings of solidarity, on behalf of the community San Sebastian de Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador. We wish to extend our solidarity with the people of Wisconsin in your struggle against the mine, it is not an individual struggle, if not collective, a struggle of the countries that we must always be alert and in the constant struggle against these mining companies that only cause damage and destruction, to the communities or peoples, we speak of these damages and destruction because we have lived it in our own flesh, have lived and are living the conseqences of the mining exploitation.
We wish to express our solidarity because you have a public hearing in the state capitol.
We just wish to say to you that we don't want any other community, nor any people to suffer that which we have suffered for the exploitation of the mining.
So Forward with your struggle,
Community of San Sebastian
24th of January 2012
Queridos amigos de Wisconsin,
Reciban un cordial saludo de solidaridad, de parte de la comunidad San Sebastián de Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador.
Queremos solidarizarnos con el pueblo de Wisconsin en su lucha contra la mína, ya que no es una lucha individual, si no colectiva, una lucha de países que debemos estar siempre alerta y en una lucha constante a estas empresas mineras, que solo causan daño y destrucción, a las comunidades o pueblos, nosotros hablamos de estos daños y destrucciones porque los hemos vivido en carne propia, hemos vivido y estamos viviendo las consecuencias de una explotación minera.
Nos comentan que ustedes tendrán una audiencia el miércoles en el capitolio estatal.
Solo queremos decirles que no quisiéramos que ninguna comunidad, ningún pueblo sufra lo que nosotros estamos sufriendo por la explotación de la minería.
Así que adelante con su lucha,
Comunidad de San Sebastián
24 de enero de 2012