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Help Protect Community Rights in Ghana
Target: Tom Mair, CEO of Golden Star ResourcesSponsored by: Oxfam America
The communities adjacent the Prestea Mine in Southwest Ghana have suffered for years. As a result of its operations, the mine endangers their livelihood and quality of life. This threat includes two cyanide spills.
The mine's owners, Golden Star Resources, now plan to expand the Prestea Mine. This expansion involves leveling low-income housing and schools, and it's being done without adequate consideration of the community concerns.
The people of Prestea, Himan, and Dumase have a right to decide whether a mine can expand in their community. Their lives and livelihood depend on exercising that right, and you can help them. Tell Golden Star Resources to listen to the people whose lives they're affecting.
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We signed the “Help Protect Community Rights in Ghana” petition!
# 9,400:
10:00 am PDT, May 11,
Vicki Trusselli, Texas
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Margaret Mccoy, Illinois
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9:40 am PDT, May 11,
Karin Sahlman, Sweden
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9:21 am PDT, May 11,
Margaret Welke, Wisconsin
How can you allow such environmental devastation to go on, how can you live with yourself, love your family and hope for your children when you purposely poison the earth and then outright murder people people who are protesting this devastation.
How can you allow such environmental devastation to go on, how can you live with yourself, love your family and hope for your children when you purposely poison the earth and then outright murder people people who are protesting this devastation.
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8:51 am PDT, May 11,
Morel Adriana, Romania
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Susan Wilcox, New York
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Aaeron Robb, Maryland
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Zafer Erturk, Turkey
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Christine Griffin, Canada
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8:09 am PDT, May 11,
Megan Marcoux, Michigan
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Karen Friend, Connecticut
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8:01 am PDT, May 11,
Kathrin Linnemann, Germany
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7:59 am PDT, May 11,
Eleftheria Papadakou, Greece
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Estrella Quiroga, California
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Peggy Moran, New York
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5:36 am PDT, May 11,
Priscilla Kayo, New York
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Robert Citkowitz, New York
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Kristina Monroe, Michigan
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4:56 am PDT, May 11,
Anne Voepel, Missouri
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4:08 am PDT, May 11,
Elaine Secondo, Connecticut
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Heidi Wessel, Florida
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12:14 am PDT, May 11,
Marla De Vries, Netherlands
# 9,378:
12:09 am PDT, May 11,
Sarah Chapman, Australia
This horrible. Coperate things should not afect the lives of other people, or anything for that matter! Heartless government...
This horrible. Coperate things should not afect the lives of other people, or anything for that matter! Heartless government...
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11:45 pm PDT, May 10,
Kara Cunningham, Hawaii
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Quick Silver, California
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PETER SCHULTZ, Louisiana
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Beth Stein, California
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Jillyanne Michelle Cape, Missouri
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Elizabeth Even, California
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Beth Mestman, Florida
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James A. D'Apollonia, New York
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Glorimar Santiago, California
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7:24 pm PDT, May 10,
Prima Baily, New York
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7:09 pm PDT, May 10,
Raelin M Hansen, North Carolina
The lives and cultures of the poor should not be overruled by corporate concerns. It is essential that human dignity should prevail, otherwise we as humans fail to live up to our potential.
The lives and cultures of the poor should not be overruled by corporate concerns. It is essential that human dignity should prevail, otherwise we as humans fail to live up to our potential.
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5:58 pm PDT, May 10,
J. Pieter Versweyveld, Florida
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Robert Knowles, Tennessee
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5:53 pm PDT, May 10,
Farra Morgan, Nebraska
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5:30 pm PDT, May 10,
Christina Sott, United Kingdom
These communities suffer most from the mine works. But WE ALL suffer when our environment suffers ANYWHERE. Until we see that point we need to listen to all these small or big communities to stop such poisonous exploitations, and there shouldn' t be a big debate whether or not one is inclined to listen.
These communities suffer most from the mine works. But WE ALL suffer when our environment suffers ANYWHERE. Until we see that point we need to listen to all these small or big communities to stop such poisonous exploitations, and there shouldn' t be a big debate whether or not one is inclined to listen.
# 9,362:
5:13 pm PDT, May 10,
J.Richard Gove, Mississippi
All people need to know what effects any intrusion on their envirement is likely to have. J.Richard Gove
All people need to know what effects any intrusion on their envirement is likely to have. J.Richard Gove
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5:01 pm PDT, May 10,
Rebecca Burns, New Jersey
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Andrea Green, Texas
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Gary Lampman, Tennessee
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4:16 pm PDT, May 10,
Cecil Scott, New York
Please do not be part of the phenomenon that has brought so much well-deserved hatred to Americans around the world. Have some compassion for the people who have no choice but to live in the dangerous vicinity of your company.
Please do not be part of the phenomenon that has brought so much well-deserved hatred to Americans around the world. Have some compassion for the people who have no choice but to live in the dangerous vicinity of your company.
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4:14 pm PDT, May 10,
Kaitlyn Barba, New York
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James B. Spence, West Virginia
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Barry Moore, New Jersey
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Abril Cardona, Texas
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Tammy Stansell, Florida
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ROCHELLE BASIL, Canada
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