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Weakening government oversight results in workers being hurt, not hired

Originally published in the Reno Gazette Journal, 12/01/2011:

 

 

The idea that government regulations stifle job creation is as pervasive and dogmatic as the flat-Earth theory was in 15th century Europe. And it's just as wrong.

 

High standards hold reckless corporations accountable and help businesses succeed by doing the right thing. But corporations from BP to factory farms to the mining industry would shelve these basic values in the name of ever-increasing profits for their top executives.

Occupy Barrick

Note: This is the second post of a three-part series about building strategic collaborations between existing social justice organizations the Occupy Wall Street movement in Nevada and nationally.  See the first post here.

 

As people all over the country are opposing economic inequality, greed, and threats to human rights, one multinational mining corporation operating in the American West has pursued a shameful legacy with little public notice.

 

Canadian-based Barrick Mining is the largest gold mining corporation in the world, producing 7.8 million ounces of pure gold in 2010 from 26