Feb 4, 2009 - Send an Un-Valentine to Walmart!
Send an Un-Valentine
to Wal-Mart
This Valentine’s Day
let’s get real about loving the earth by challenging Wal-Mart’s
“Love, Earth” jewelry.
Wal-Mart claims that the
gold in its “Love, Earth” products comes from mines that are environmentally
and socially responsible.
Environmentally responsible?
Newmont’s enormous open-pit mines in Nevada supply “Love, Earth.”
They are drying up springs, polluting the air with mercury emissions, and they
will go on polluting the water supply forever through acid mine drainage.
Socially responsible? Newmont’s
mines are on Western Shoshone lands. The Western Shoshone have battled Newmont
for decades to respect their sacred sites and stop polluting their air and water
and drying up their sacred springs. Wal-mart says its “Love, Earth”
suppliers “contribute to the communities where they work,” but Wal-Mart
has never even talked with the Western Shoshone people.
Western Shoshone elder Carrie
Dann could teach Wal-Mart something about loving the earth. She says,
“The Earth is
dying because of the way people act. We indigenous people are yelling Stop that!
You’re killing
the Mother of all life! Can’t you wake up and hear what we are saying
to you?”
So, this month let’s send Un-Valentines
to Wal-Mart with copies to Newmont Mining Company and Conservation International.
Have fun creating your own un-valentines, or use the verses below. We’ll
post your most creative un-valentines on our website.
Send your Un-Valentines
to:
Pam.Mortensen@wal-mart.com
Richard.obrien@newmont.com
p.seligmann@conservation.org
action@globalresponse.org
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