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The Toxicity of Gold
A little over a year ago, I was proud to take part in a culture-jam alongside the FAO, a group of jammers from Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico in front of the main CIBC branch in downtown Montreal.
We were protesting the $11 million investment by the CIBC in a company called Metallica Mining, which was (and unfortunately still is) using bribes to local officials to gut the central mountain in their village and destroy their way of life for the sake of profits.
Here’s a video of the performance (courtesy of Jay Lemieux and Guerilla Video Productions):
Canadian Mining Industry, Culture-Jams
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