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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