Tibetans Hijack Continental Minerals AGM
It’s never good when protestors almost out number your shareholders and corproate executives at the company’s Annual General Meeting. Well, this was the situation HDI/Continental Minterals found itself in yesterday when Tibetans and their supporters hijacked the AGM to protest the company’s mine activities in Tibet. Below is a short exerpt from SFT UBC president Tsering Lama, who along with 3 others attended the meeting to demand Continental withdraw from Tibet.
The presence of around twenty Tibet supporters yesterday at Continental Minerals headquarters was a resounding success. Members of Students for a Free Tibet and Canada Tibet Committee displayed two massive banners that read: HDI/ Continental Minerals: Hands off Tibet! Along with these were placards reading: “Continental Minerals profits off Tibet’s genocide, and “Shame Shame Continental Shame”. We also did political theatre with a Tibetan monk tied up playing tug of war with a Continental worker for a pot of Tibetan gold. We attracted curious onlookers on the busy road as well as security guards who took notice but engaged positively with the protesters. Our spokesperson also did interviews with local reporters.
Two members of Students for a Free Tibet and two members of Canada Tibet Committee gained access into the AGM. When the President of Continental and his lawyer came out to greet us, we reminded him that he had essentially invited us present our concerns at the AGM, at which point he looked taken a back. Continental has claimed that it is better for Western companies rather than Chinese companies to exploit Tibet’s resources and we were there to let them know that exploitation and everything that goes a long with it is destructive regardless of who does it.
The AGM was a relatively small affair with two other shareholders and a dozen or so board and staff members (so we outnumbered the shareholders!). Once inside, Gelek presented a heartfelt statement from the point of view of a Tibetan and the suited men looked very uncomfortable and unprepared. Continental’s President and Gelek discussed the fundamental issue of TIbet being an occupied territory and the abuses suffered by Tibetans under Chinese. We repeatedly urged them to withdraw from Tibet and highlighted the impossibility of honest consultation with Tibetans who live under the Chinese gun.
After an hour of Tibet dominating the agenda, the meeting ended but not before we reminded them that we were just a small proportion of the people globally who know what’s going on inside Tibet and who will continue to pressure Continental and the other Canadian mining companies to withdraw. This is just the beginning.
Bod Rangzen,
Tsering Lama
SFT Vancouver
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