{"id":159480,"date":"2021-06-08T06:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=159480"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:39:13","slug":"dominican-environmental-activists-in-new-york-protest-against-barrick-gold-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/08\/dominican-environmental-activists-in-new-york-protest-against-barrick-gold-in-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican environmental activists in New York protest against Barrick Gold in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Critics of New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art\u2019s funding sources have targeted board members Leon Black for his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Fink, denounced as a private prison profiteer. But now Sandy Pl\u00e1cido, a Dominican Studies scholar and professor of history at the City University of New York (CUNY), recently led a protest against another board member, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, MoMA trustee and founder of its Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America. Hypoallergic, an independent art online service, carried the news story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Placido is denouncing what she calls \u201ctoxic philanthropy” at the museum. Flyers were distributed during the protest describing the ties between Cisnero\u2019s husband, Gustavo Cisneros and Barrick Gold, the leading gold mining company with operations in the Dominican Republic. Cisneros is a member of the international advisory of Barrick Gold Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sinister logic of a husband who advises a global corporation creating havoc through its mining initiatives all over the world, and specifically the Third World, and a wife who then turns around, collects abstract geometric art from Latin America, and sets up a foundation to \u2018help people,\u2019 is what brings us here today,\u201d Pl\u00e1cido said, as reported in Hypoallergic. \u201cIf you want to help, tell your husband to get Barrick out of the DR and from all communities that are suffering because of violent and environmentally dangerous mining processes,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrick Gold took over the gold mining operations in Sanchez Ram\u00edrez province and has been incidental to the relieving of major environmental disaster threats in the area. Nevertheless, the company seeks to develop new operations and proposes to build a new tailings dam to store toxic mining byproducts in the province of Monte Plata that locals see as a major threat to this farming area. The company has yet to formally present the project to the Ministry of Environment for approval. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critics of New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art\u2019s funding sources have targeted board members Leon Black for his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Fink, denounced as a private prison profiteer. But now Sandy Pl\u00e1cido, a Dominican Studies scholar and professor of history at the City University of New York (CUNY), recently led a … <\/p>\n

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