What Price Gold?
Impact of Mining on Indigenous Peoples
Sponsored by The Indigenous Support Network (CU-Denver), and supported by CU-Denver Student Activities and the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics (CU-Denver)
Tivoli Student Center, Room 320
Auraria Campus, Denver CO
(speakers confirmed as of April 6)
9:30 AM - Welcome & Registration
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Film: “Curse of Inca Gold”
10:30 AM –
12:00 PM Panel: Stripping off the Mask
Scientists who work with indigenous communities, mining companies, NGOs, and
governments around the world, discuss impacts of mining on water, public health,
community decision making, and creation of reliable information.
Gail Bundy, Blue Wolf Futures, Moderator
Robert Moran, Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Michael-Moran Associates, LLC.
Ann S. Maest, Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Buka Environmental
David Silver, MD, MPH, Assoc. Clinical Professor of Preventative Medicine, University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center/Global Response
Newmont Mining Corporation was invited to participate, but has not yet responded.
12:00 –
1:00 Film: “Choropampa – The Price of Gold”
Lunch break
12:00 Press conference for the 1:00 panelists
1:00 - 2:30 Panel:
Mining: Digging for the Truth
Indigenous and international visitors whose territories, communities, lives, livelihoods
are at mining’s ground zero. Panelists will share their stories from the frontlines of
fighting for Mother Earth.
Glenn Morris, Fourth World Center for Indigenous Law and Politics, UCD, moderator
Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone Territory (Nevada): Western Shoshone Defense Project
Padre Marco Arana, Cajamarca, Peru, President, GRUFIDES (Education and Action
Group for Sustainable Development).
Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, Accra, Ghana, Executive Director, WACAM (Wassam
Association of Communities Affected by Mining).
2:45 to 4:00 Panel:
Escaping Midas Touch
A panel of activists will share success stories and strategies for building international
and indigenous solidarity, creating collaborative and individual actions, and resisting
growth of mining.
Pavlos Stavropoulos, Dandelion Center, moderator
Paula Palmer, Executive Director, Global Response/No Dirty Gold Campaign
Awan Atuire, Regis University Service Learning Trip to Ghana
A Representative from Save the Peaks (AZ)
Jennifer Samimi, Indigenous Support Network, UCD
Glenn Spagnuolo, Stop Newmont Alliance
