Documentary Film: Sipakapa No Se Vende (Sipakapa is Not for Sale)

The steep environmental and human costs of gold mining lead Maya communities in the Sipakapa municipality of Guatemala to exercise their right to be consulted about the expansion of mining operations into their area. The outcome of their plebiscite is a resounding 'No!" to mining.

Presenters: Carlos Amador, Sandra Cuffe, and Steven Schnoor

Presenter Bios: Carlos Amador is an organizer and educator and leader of the Siria Valley Environmental Committee in Francisco Morazon, Honduras. His work includes working to expose the multiple violations and harms being caused by cyanide-leaching, open pit gold mining practiced in the region by the Vancouver-based Goldcorp (formerly Glamis Gold) mining company, and to promote and work for community controlled alternative development projects. Sandra Cuffe works with Rights Action and has lived and worked in Honduras for over three years, working on a wide range of development, environment and human rights issues with community organizations in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; Sandra has investigated and written extensively about the violations and harms caused by North American mining companie's including Goldcorp (formerly Glamis Gold) articles available on request. Steven Schnoor is a Canadian activist and Communications and Culture PhD student at York University in Toronto. Recently, Steven spend four months as a Rights Action intern collaborating with mining-affected communities and organizations in Guatemala and Honduras. A short independent documentary video produced by Steven about violent illegal evictions in five Mayan Q'eqchi' communities in the region of Skye Resources' planned nickel project has generated widespread public response, including from the Canadian Ambassador in Guatemala and the company itself..

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