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Happy Earth Day from ENGAGE!

4/22/2015

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Happy Earth Day! In a moment when the world is reminded of the importance of our environment, we would like to remind the world about the everyday destruction of the water, the land, and the air in Na Nong Bong because of irresponsible mining practices. This a great chance to highlight the resilience and dedication the community members have to restoring their environment and shutting down projects that harm our earth and our people, from Northeast Thailand to Oaxaca, Mexico. Check out this inspiring video of villagers singing one of their many protest songs about their struggle. Please consider making a contribution to support community rights today and sharing our efforts with your friends and family.

Lyrics:

We don’t dare to eat the rice from our own hometown, Because of the poisons the gold mine has released, Manganese, arsenic, and cyanide.
No matter how hard we’ve worked to plant rice,
We don’t dare to eat the rice in our own hometown. We don’t dare to eat the fish from our own hometown, because of what the gold mine has released.


Kod fish, Keng fish, small fish, big fish,
We used to trap in our nets but still,
We don’t dare to eat the fish from our own hometown.
We don’t dare to drink the water from our own hometown, because of what the gold mine has released.


We don’t shower with, drink, or use the hazardous water. We buy it to drink, shower and use.
We don’t dare to shower with the water from our own hometown. 
But we still love, love our hometown,

Love our brothers and sisters of the Huay River.
Tapfaa, Sampabon, and Pulek Mountains are still beautiful.
We’re helping to protect our hometown because we love our hometown.
So we don’t want the goldmine.

The mine doesn’t live up to rice,
The rice, fish, fields, and, water that used to be ours.
The reason we’re protecting our home, i
s because we still love our hometown, because we still love our hometown

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