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Help Protect Community Rights in Ghana

Target: Tom Mair, CEO of Golden Star Resources
Sponsored 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.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 15,000

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Dear [CEO],

We are writing to express our deep concern for the communities of Prestea, Himan, and Dumase that neighbor the Bogoso/Prestea Mine in the Wassa West district of Ghana. Since 2001, these communities have endured threats to their lives and livelihoods related to the Bogoso/Prestea Mine. We urge you to fulfill their request for a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of the first phase of the Bogoso/Prestea Project and for the right of free, prior, and informed consent regarding the planned Prestea South Project.

As you are aware, the relationship between Golden Star Resources and the communities of Prestea, Himan, and Dumase has been strained. Despite cyanide spills that contaminated local rivers and streams in 2004 and 2006, Golden Star Resources has yet to commission the independent health investigation requested by members of these communities. On June 13, 2005, seven people were shot by security personnel guarding one of the North Plant Mine's pits during a demonstration in Prestea. Still, no independent investigation of this incident has taken place.

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WoMEN are the same flesh as MEN!!

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10:14 am PDT, Apr 25, Sherri Pickel, California
How you can risk human lives for money?

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9:25 am PDT, Apr 25, Durty south Drew, Florida
Stop the ignorance and clean up your mess...you need to use your heart in place of your greed as you were mining probably knowing you were taking advantage of the people in the first place how much can you possibly gain? now with this contamination you are destroying the environment and the people must not stand for this!!!!

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7:14 am PDT, Apr 25, Samantha Taylor, Alabama
i am always getting letters from ghana, it must be a desperate place if they are begging us for help, and there are so many awful cases of in africa, where individuals are massacred on a daily basis, when we are comfortable in our homes and protected with every eminity they are not protected as we are and we know it, So please if we do something about this situation now it won't get worse later on. Please keep an eye on these people and please, do all you can, God works in mysterious ways and what if we were placed in their situation

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