In this month’s zine * Damien Outlaw reports back from the annual convergence at Lake Cowal against Barrick Gold’s destruction of Wiradjuri land. * Another Mayday passed and the good people from Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group have put out a statement about its ongoing significance in this time of economic crisis. 38 MAY 2009 * The Swine Flu isn’t just a virus. It’s an excuse for state repression in Mexico. Huevo Podrido reports. * Work at a call centre or make a pact with the devil... reports from there’s not much difference says Eastside Thunder. may day * Sydney’s first Anarchist Film Fest is coming up. Full desecrating INSIDE program inside. SydneyAnarchistilm Festival * More news, including Mayday actions around the L a ke Cowal F programme world plus reviews.

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On April 27 hundreds their next phone bill, they call their telephone Belgium of drivers fought police, blocked roads with company, which directs them to a telephone On May 12 Belgian & French Steelworkers, processions, attacked 50 vehicles, including police vans & bikes, & barricaded a busy number connecting them to me. angry about reduced hours & job insecurity, attempted to crash the Annual ArcelorMittal trafc intersection. They also clashed with A Hispanic sounding lady on a pension called shareholders meeting in Luxembourg. About the rickshaw vehicle renting companies (who me the other week demanding to know how 2,000 workers gathered at the headquarters sometimes rip off drivers by refusing to return I could live with myself, working for these of the world’s largest steelmaker. Throwing vehicle hire deposits or overcharging for them) & ransacked the ofces of a meter installation people. These people that steal, she wanted to recrackers, cobblestones & iron bars, a group company. know honestly, how I could work for them? tried to break through the front door but were She’d been scammed out of about a hundred driven off by riot police ofcers ring rubber 30 people have been arrested, including six bucks. The rule is that I’m only allowed to give a refund if they ask specifically for one, in those bullets & tear gas. union leaders, who had expressed workers’ words. All she asked for was for me to speak to her honestly, and this I could not do. Our calls The workers damaged the ornate front doors grievances while denying any responsibility are monitored by the supervisors, I couldn’t say shit. of the company headquarters, but the meeting for the strike, & sometimes trying to calm was not interrupted. It was the rst violent protests. The further through Hell I ventured with the devil I learned that it was not his hand I was demonstration in Luxembourg since Arcelor Edited from libcom.org holding, nor by his side I was walking. On a leash he had me, his command enough for me to do steelworkers rioted in 2003. his evil upon any other human. Greece Bangladesh Prisoners, both condemned & pending trial, There’s another company we do customer service for at Contact Centres Australia. It’s City of On May 10 at the Rupashi Sweater factory held in the Police HQs of Salonica went Sydney parking fines. in Narayanganj (a river port town in central on hunger strike on May 7 in protest for Bangladesh & centre of jute & textiles the conditions in their cells. According to the Yep, we do all the scams at CCA. industries) bosses were attacked by a group inmates living conditions in the police-run of workers demanding their unpaid wages. institution are terrible, with a total disregard lyrics about the possibility of revolutionary change When they turned up for work they found for regulations. The premises lack basic Reviews of stuff occurring. themselves locked out of the factory. The hygienic facilities & standards & prisoners workers then marched to other factories - have no possibility to exercise or walk in the Supporting Caste I know of no band that lyrically articulates radical politics as well as Propagandhi. However, i do shouting slogans for higher wages - & brought fresh air in a yard. Propagandhi out thousands of other workers. 15,000 situate this album within a particular trajectory that The hunger strike comes as the rst since (album) workers came out on to the streets & around i feel they have moved along in their lyric writing the deluge of prison action last (northern I reckon the best punk music - the songs and bands 14 factories were attacked & vandalised. - from revolutionary and inspiring on their rst hemisphere) Autumn, when all prisons across that really move me - are dened by a compelling Two main inter-city highways were blocked couple of albums, to more angry but still hopeful the country went on an open-end hunger sense of urgency and immediacy. And what makes for four hours, becoming a battleground (Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes), to angry but strike that forced the government to promise punk important is that this feeling doesn’t necessarily between police & paramilitary forces & also fairly despairing (Potemkin City Limits), to the release of more than half the prison have to be created through outstandingly, technical enraged workers. now, where i think the balance has shifted towards population of the country by the end of April. musicianship. It can be in a basic driving beat, a an overall bleakness and despair. Garment workers used similar tactics at Savar The promises have not materialised, & it is simple melody that rises above a wall of noise, or The title track is evidence of this mood, a clever (also in central Bangladesh, a center of textiles unlikely that the current government has any a gravel-throated scream that demands an active metaphor where the masses of history are equated & agriculture) over unpaid wages. These intention to see them through. response. to the supporting caste of a lm, “ushered on and incidents are entirely typical of the increasing Mexico Propagandhi have always attained this sense of swiftly off this stage”, they offer us “a piece of unrest in the garment industry. Real wages On May 7 thousands of police were sent in urgency, it’s just that for a couple of albums now advice: if you’re cast on thin ice, you may as well have declined as ination rises; indicating to remove Oaxacan civilians who had been this is in part created by ridiculously skilled playing dance”. Track 8, ‘The Funeral Procession’, has a how precarious & malnourished much of the blockading the Trinidad silver mine. The of their instruments. This doesn’t overwhelm the similar feel, with the narrator “resigned to the truth workforce is, workers are now being given Canadian-owned mine had been occupied politics of their lyrics but amplies it, so that in that i will not live to see the dawn of a better temporary food rations as an alternative to since March 16 by people concerned about Supporting Caste they have created a record that is day”, but nishing with the line “you gotta keep permanent wage increases. environmental contamination & dwindling unrelentingly intense whether what you’re hearing on truckin’ anyways”. Yep, i told you there’s a In late April thousands of auto rickshaw water resources. Eye-witnesses estimate that is super-fast rifng or a whisper over a quietly bleakness to this album and i’m not even going to drivers in the south-eastern port city of there were about 150 people from the strummed guitar. This isn’t obvious punk music - quote from the nal track, ‘Last Will and Testament’, Chittagong began a wildcat strike to press community at the mine when police were sent there’s a fracturing feeling to this album created that has a hauntingly, beautiful three-minute intro their demands for a higher meter rate, against in. with odd pauses, time changes, breakdowns, etc preceding a matching set of crushingly, sad lyrics. that reect a growing and obvious despair in their The songs on this album with more specic themes A call issued by Comité de Defensa de Los 5-year prison sentence - were issued as a Derechos del Pueblo (CODEP) describes how result of occupations at the ofces of Defense “twenty-ve hundred members of the federal Force Recruiting & Tenix, a war-proteer. police, AFI, judicial police, & the bomb corps When this trial is over one of the defendants CCA, Give Me Back My Soul entered the mine with a wealth of weapons: faces a second trial for allegedly assaulting using tear gas, shots from various types of police during the street demonstration. - Eastside Thunder rearms, police dogs, savagely beating the I have seen Hell and I have descended into its fiery depths and there I have seen the devil and One man, Akin Sari, remains in prison as a people, & searching the homes of the people witnessed some of his treachery. result of his G20 charges, He’s serving a 2 who were peacefully guarding access to the years & 4 month sentence. Write to him mine.” I work at a call centre in Surry Hills. We sell raffle tickets for charity. To do this, thousands upon c/-Corrections Victoria PO Box 123, thousands of people across Australia are telephoned each day and asked to pledge. You sit in G20 trial, Melbourne Melbourne 3001 Australia front of a computer screen with a headset on, while these thousands of people are automatically A court date has nally been conrmed for dialled on. When someone on the other end of the line picks up the phone, the connection is made the three people still facing charges relating to The G20 defense campaign continues to need and their details flash up on the screen for you to make a sale to. This method of fundraising is the G20 protests in Melbourne in November funds for legal & travel costs. Look out for (or designed to gain the maximum possible pledge rate out of communities, with the least amount 2006. organise!) a fundraiser in a town near you, or make donations to: of expense. The rst trial, of a woman charged with riot for participating in a street demonstration, Melbourne University Credit Union Each salesperson is given a quota of how many sales they need to make per hour. If we don’t begins on June 30 at Melbourne Magistrates Account name: G20 Arrestee Solidarity make the quota we’re sent home, and fired if it keeps happening. Through our minds and bodies Court. Two Sydney men who face charges of Network each shift will ache the desire to make a sale, the need is overpowering. aggravated burglary are due to start on July BSB 803-143 A/C number: 13291 (all 13. transfers) And through Hell I walked hand in hand with the devil and his treachery became mine and after cuscau2sxxx (if transferring from a time the burning, scalding flames of Hell became my own cravings for what I still understood These charges - which carry a maximum overseas) as evil. May Day Federation organised a meeting night where cars and rubbish A salesperson when confronted by a pensioner who clearly cannot afford to spend her meagre Chile at the Střelecký river island containers were set alight. allowance on even $15 worth of raffle tickets will still push further: ‘We can do 20 entries for About 10,000 Chileans in Prague, where anarchists On May Day morning 700 $50, 15 for 40 and we now have a special of 10 entries for $30’. We do have options for entries marched in Santiago in a have celebrated May Day anarchists blocked a railway less than $30, but we are told only to mention them as a last resort. since 1890. The May Day station in an attempt to sabotage protest organised by the Unified If asked by a potential customer how much of their pledge actually goes to the charity, we are told Festival afterwards featured a neo-Nazi march. Workers Confederation, to answer, ‘All of it’. This is a lie. In fact, the call centre is paid $24 000 for each raffle we do, speeches and bands including the country’s largest labour plus 3.8% of whatever we get in pledges, plus 90c for every telephone confederation Propagandhi from Canada. Greece Almost 8000 people visited Protest marches took to the call we make, regardless of the outcome. Needless to say most of our money is made on the 90c per call, seeing as we do literally hundreds Columbia the festival, more than twice as streets of all major Greek In Colombia, unions and many as last year. cities on Mayday 2009. In of thousands each day – about 100 million this year so far! If we retirees’ organisations mobilised Athens the independent break this down then only about half of the money people pledge thousands of workers with Ecuador march of anarchists, anarcho- goes to the charity – the rest goes to the corporate call centre, some slogans against unemployment, Thousands of workers marched syndicalists and autonomous going to our wages and most going to the directors and execs. in Ecuador’s main cities unions attracted over a President Alvaro Uribe’s bid After about two weeks I was promoted to the corporate side of the for re-election and the ongoing carrying signs with slogans thousand protesters in defiance such as “Let the gringos pay of anti-anarchist measures. The company. I was now to take inbound calls, i.e. be the customer violence against unionists. service for a company called Pixel Multimedia. Pixel Multimedia Marchers also called for a for the capitalist crisis,” and “anarchist May Day” protest send out millions of scratch cards across Australia. Free negotiated settlement to the “Reject the government’s labor marched through downtown scratch cards found in magazines or our mailboxes, armed conflict with leftist rebels policy”. immigrant neighbourhoods that such as the Revolutionary have been recently vilified by promising cars, money, mobile phones, gaming consoles Armed Forces of Colombia Germany the government and the media. as prizes for a winning card. Every card, when scratched, (FARC). Unions estimated that 484 000 is a winner. The card instructs you to send a txt message people took part in 400 protests Guadaloupe from your mobile phone with a code to claim the prize. Czech Republic across the country. Riots in 20 000 people celebrated the At the bottom of the card is written in small print that The Czech Anarchist Berlin began on Thursday 44-day general strike that won when subscribed, you would be charged $10 for every an increase in the minimum coalition of 22 unions, held a which has successfully Australia has just been reported as I write, referred to as a “weak” case whereby wage and price reductions one-day general strike and a organised mostly immigrants the person recovered from it and is now okay) there is a need to be critical of the for basic necessities earlier in march to protest what unionists without papers, has won a long sensationalist information that is being reported in the press and how such a “crisis” the year. The demonstrators said was a plan by Governor standing dispute with the posh marched to Petit-Canal, the Luis Fortuño to respond to the Josefine restaurant in central is being used by the state and for the benefit of pharmaceutical companies. As burial site of unionist Jacques economic crisis by laying off 30 Stockholm. Josefine’s was due distrust and discontent for party politics rises in Mexico, the flu has allowed for Bino, who was killed on Feb 17 000-60 000 public employees to re-open on May1, yet the the state to try to reclaim some sense of legitimacy. Exactly how long controls of in a night of violence during the and by “the privatisation of threat of a blockade of more urban areas by police will be allowed is perhaps another story as the distortion of generally peaceful strike. the country’s essential public than a thousand syndicalists and services”. 30 000 people sympathisers obviously made information becomes increasingly evident. Haiti participated. the owner change his mind and In Port-au-Prince, Riot police promise back pay and proper Most importantly we need to place such a “crisis” in the context of other “crises” used tear gas to disperse a Russia contracts. that have gripped the world in the previous years: terrorism, anthrax, bird flu. It’s march of several hundred Mass arrests were made in students, teachers, unionist and St. Petersburg earlier on the Turkey important that we look critically at information and do not allow such crises to others demanding the increase day as people gathered in the In Istanbul, officers used teargas distract from more immediate struggle and organising against the state and capital. to minium wage. centre of the city to take part and water cannon to prevent Information in the media about the devastating effects of the economic crisis upon in demonstrations. A police protesters entering Taksim workers, the war in Afghanistan and Palestine, climate change and the intervention Honduras spokesman said they had Square. Riot police mounted in the NT are being side-tracked, yet there is crucial need for this resistance to Thousands of workers marched received inside information three charges against protesters in 11 cities in Honduras that anarchists were preparing who had joined organised continue; flu or no flu. with slogans against the an “active action” (i.e. violent labour movement’s march. US-sponsored Dominican attack) against ultranationalists. Alternative information sourced from: Republic-Central America Free He said 100 anarchists and 20 USA (In Spanish) http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/globalizacion/plagas/ Trade Agreement (CAFTA). nationalists were detained, Tens of thousands marched for adding that some of the detained immigrant and workers’ rights, elpepiint/20090503elpepiint_10/Tes?print=1 Iraq nationalists had “self-defense” the largest being over 20 000 in http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=84570 About 1 000 people attended weapons in their possession. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/04/29/index.php?section=opinion&article=032 a march in Baghdad organised Anarchists denied any such were calling for legalisation o1pol by the Iraqi Communist Party, attack was planned, stating that of the undocumented and an the Iraqi Federation of Trade they were organising a street end to raids and deportations. (In English) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13433 Unions and other groups. party, in solidarity with Swedish Organisers credit the turnout torrent website Pirate Bay. to the hopes people have for Mexico Obama to pass immigration More than 30 000 Mexicans A reported thirty anarchists reform, the fear of consequences marched despite the suspension managed to escape when the for missing a day of work of May Day activities in Mexico police bus they were in got in difficult economic times, City due to fears of swine flu. In lost, and the police officers concerns about swine flu and a Puebla, 25 000 people from 15 accompanying it were busy general anti-immigrant climate unions and peasant and activist asking passers-by for directions. with record numbers of raids groups participated in a march and deportations. to the city’s main plaza. “Face Sweden masks aren’t enough to silence In Stockholm more than 3500 United Kingdom the conscience of the people” people marched with the Central In Brighton a demonstration and “More harmful than the Organisation of the Workers of was held against the EDO/ influenza—the government Sweden, an anarcho-syndicalist MBM bomb component factory. without shame” were among trade union federation, and the It continued through town and the chants. Swedish Anarcho-syndicalist paid visits to local branches of Youth Federation under a multi-national corporations, Puerto Rico banner proclaiming that “we including McDonalds, RBS, In San Juan, the Broad Front will not pay for your crisis!” HSBC and Lloyds which invest of Solidarity and Struggle, a in ITT, the owners of EDO. Also the Syndicalist Registry, May Day Statement Australia with increased military and police presence on the streets, new laws were passed Australia has also joined its trading partners by the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group allowing federal police to use surveillance of all telephone calls, mail, websites in recession. Banks, dependent on overseas and email addresses, and access to personal information from private companies. In the shadow of the crisis markets for funds, have cut back on credit. Along with this, the May 1st Parade, which was directed against the Calderon Today, on May Day, we dedicate ourselves Volumes and prices of mineral exports have to this revolution, and the establishment of dropped substantially. The stock market has government, was cancelled. libertarian communism, a State-less society fallen savagely. The fallout from all this is where each contributes according to their serious and growing. Thousands of small On a global level the threat of infection has been used as a way to divert attention ability and receives according to their need. investors, and a few large ones, have been away from the global economic crisis which is leading towards a drastic increase ruined by corporate collapses. Millions of Chicago workers have found their retirement savings in poverty and unemployment; not to mention the war in the Middle East and May Day is International Workers Day. It disappearing as superannuation funds have the broader issue of US-NATO war crimes. The constant coverage in the media began in the U.S. With protests over the made large losses on the stock market. effectively draws attention from greater threats to capital, as we are meant framing and execution of Anarchist union And, like a spectre the capitalists thought to be paralysed by this apocalyptic threat. It is important however that this is organisers for the death of police killed by a banished into the past, mass unemployment contextualised within other recent events which have “threatened our lives” such bomb which exploded at a workers’ gathering has returned. Jobs are being destroyed at in Chicago. Since then, workers around the a frightening rate and employers are also as anthrax in 2004, whereby $40 million was spent in the US alone on developing world have used it to campaign around the beginning to go on the offensive over wages vaccines against the threat. issues of the day, celebrate working class and working conditions. solidarity and dedicate themselves to the Workers of the World, Unite! It also needs to be considered struggle for a better world. In the face of this gathering catastrophe, who will benefit from the Financial Crisis the relevance of May Day is thus once more pandemic virus as it spreads. Capitalism has fallen into a massive crisis. underlined. Workers around the world are Similar to the anthrax scandal, Losses from poor quality housing loans in finding the bosses of their country have pharmaceutical companies will the U.S. have led to the exposure of reckless proven themselves their enemies, while the be the principal beneficiaries and sometimes fraudulent financial practices. allies they need are amongst the workers of Banks and insurance companies in the other countries. Capitalism, as well as being in any vaccine created. The U.S. have fallen. Entire national economies unjust, is inherently crisis-prone. Only a vast accessibility and cost of such of second-ranking countries like Iceland, revolution of the working class, across the a vaccine also raises important Hungary and Ireland have imploded. Despite world, can throw it into the dustbin of history. issues. This is especially massive financial bail-outs, the system Today, on May Day, we dedicate ourselves important in relation to remains shaky and further collapses cannot to this revolution, and the establishment of be ruled out. The financial shock has knocked libertarian communism, a State-less society where the virus supposedly the world into the worst recession since where each contributes according to their originated, in La Gloria, a World War II, with Asian and African countries ability and receives according to their need. small rural town in central untouched by the financial crisis being drawn WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Mexico. in by collapsing export markets. Capitalist predictions of recovery are more statements Contact MACG on: macg1984 at yahoo dot com dot au of hope than conviction. Perhaps one of the more obvious effects that this “crisis” will have relates to PO Box 2120 Lygon St North the foreign policies between the US and Mexico. As it currently stands, the US/ Mexico border is becoming increasingly militarised, as construction of the fence continues to prevent people crossing. The response from the Right in the US has been predicable consisting of the call to not allow anyone to cross the border from Mexico, and for greater policing of the border using military personnel. This has essentially played upon the notion of danger associated with the South, and the idea that to “contain” the Other is the necessary solution. As reports continue to come in about the spread of the virus, (the first case in Flu or No Flu: Black Rose and Jura Books present the first A Crisis that the State Benefits From sydney By Huevo Podrido

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The Closing Night Monday June 8 swine flu emergency measures have “closed down” entire urban areas, and are 6pm Lucio Anarquista Jura Books widely perceived within the Mexican left as a pretext to curb mounting social dissent against one of the most corrupt administrations in Mexican history. Along In 2008 Barrick submitted an Environmental Assessment along with a proposal to modify and expand the Lake Cowal gold mine. The proposed Lake Cowal gold mine expansion or “E42 Modification”, would involve the expansion of the following: LAKE COWAL • Life of the mine from 13 years to 24 years Damien Outlaw • Gold production from a total of 2.7 million ounces to 3.5 million ounces of gold Lake Cowal forms part of a large ephemeral inland • Tailings produced from mining from 76 million tonnes to 129 million tonnes wetland system in the Lachlan Catchment and is the • Total waste rock to be removed from the open pit from 128 million tonnes to 184 million tonnes largest, natural, inland lake in NSW. Lake Cowal is a • Total surface area of the open pit, from 70 hectares to 130 hectares, from 1km long to 1.25 km long, sacred site for the Wiradjuri Nation. It is known as the from 850m wide to 1.35km wide, from 325m deep to 440m deep sacred Heartland of the Wiradjuri Nation, and well known for its abundance of artefacts, strong history of initiations Uncle Neville Chappy Williams, a Traditional Owner of Lake Cowal and dedicated opponent to the and cultural importance. Gold Mine at Lake Cowal, has again challenged the Government’s involvement with Barrick’s Lake Cowal Gold Mine; this time through the NSW Land and Environment Court. Lake Cowal is located in Central Western NSW, 45km North- West of West Wyalong, approx 600km West of Sydney. The lake is In February this year victory against Barrick in Australia occurred, when a judge ruled in favour of approximately 14 km long and 8 km wide with an average depth of Wiradjuri Traditional Owner, Neville “Chappy” Williams. The NSW Land and Environment Court around 2m. It is said to be inundated seven years out of ten. Significant granted an injunction that now restrains the NSW Minister for Planning from making a determination concentrations of wildlife and waterbirds make the lake their home. Lake on the proposed E42 modification, effectively restraining the proposed expansion of Barrick Gold’s Cowal is listed on the Register of the National Estate for its biodiversity and mine in Lake Cowal. the number of species that inhabit the lake. Current International campaigns involving Barrick Gold include: GATHERING Australia: Lake Cowal, NSW and Super-pit, Kalgoorlie, WA. Ongoing campaigning for the protection of Lake Cowal has been going since United States: Cortez Mine, Nevada. Expansion into sacred lands. 1998 with the campaign taking off in 2002 after an embassy was set up on site. New Mexico: Communities battle subsidiary Homestake’s legacy of uranium contamination. Continued campaigning has included yearly convergences, direct action, awareness and Alaska: Donlin Creek gold project. $87 million exploration and development program. fundraising events as well as two visits to Barrick Gold’s AGM in Toronto, in solidarity Tanzania: Bulyanhulu and North Mara mines. with Tanzania, Porgera PNG, Chile and the Philippines. Chile: Pascua Lama/Valedero Project. Argentina: Mount Famatina and Pascua Lama/Valedero Project. Sixty people from all over the east coast and as far as Adelaide, converged at Lake Cowal over Papua New Guinea: illegal dumping of toxic mine tailings into rivers. the Easter Weekend, from Friday 10th to Sunday 12th April 2009, to fight for the protection of the Peru: Protesters die in confrontations with police during mining strikes in the Ancash lake and surrounding lands from gold mining and cyanide leaching. The convergence also wanted region. to speak out about indigenous rights to ceremony, to challenge ‘consent to destroy’ permissions, to Canada: Eskey Creek, Northern British Columbia and the Helmo Joint venture, North address water issues, the mine expansion, native title and many other issues. shore of Lake Superior, Ontario. Philippines: Placer Dome mine (1969-1996), lawsuit against Barrick Gold Corp. The brave sleepy protesters staged an early morning action, a walk-on to the mine site stopping work Initiated by provincial authorities of Marinduque for causing immense damage to for hours and halted a shift change at one of the gates. There were 28 people arrested on the Easter the island and it’s people. Sunday and charged with offences relating to the action involving trespass. Dominican Republic: Barrick Gold Corp. will reopen the Pueblo Viejo mine. Russia: reports surface of mine workers being trapped in underground mine BARRICK fires. Barrick Gold Corporation, based in Canada, is the world’s largest gold mining company. Its Lake Cowal mine has been in full operation in this sacred and environmentally significant place since 2006. The fight for the protection of Lake Cowal continues stronger than ever. A travelling exhibition of Lake Cowal images will start in Melbourne According to Neville “Chappy” Williams, the Wiradjuri Traditional Owner: “Barrick is desecrating and will be visiting Sydney in early July, then Newcastle and beyond. our sacred site and Dreaming Place and denying us access to our traditional lands. The company has moved or destroyed more than 10 000 artefacts including marked trees; damaging the integrity of the To find out more about Lake area forever. Cowal, and how you can support and build this campaign, make the “What we are doing is our ancient cultural duty to protect our sacred Country for the generations links: to come. We are also raising awareness of the dangers of cyanide leach gold mining and the mine’s www.protestbarrick.net excessive use of precious water in the middle of the worst drought on record. The fullest dams, in the www.savelakecowal.org very parched countryside between Condobolin and the mine, are the toxic tailings ponds west of the www.corpwatch.org open-cut pit – which extends into the lakebed.” www.aguavalemasqueoro.org www.peacebus.com