Come meet Jethro Tulin, an organizer at the centre of a campaign against Barrick Gold in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

This event will follow an new members orientation for those interested in working with the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network https://www.facebook.com/events/522381644575200/?contextcreate&source49;. Dinner will be served from 7 to 7:30 Pay What You Can and then Jethro will give a talk.

Native to the highlands of Papua New Guinea PNG, Jethro Tulin is a popular organizer and founder of the Akali Tange Association ATA, a human rights organization documenting abuses at the Porgera mine, owned by Toronto's Barrick Gold.

Jethro has been organizing within and outside the Barrick's Porgera mine since its inception then owned by Placer Dome. In 1989, he registered Porgera's first mine workers union and became its first secretary. Years later, after spending time abroad and involved in other aspects of Papua New Guinea's nascent union movement, Jethro returned to Porgera to find the situation with the mine and the surrounding villages had worsened dramatically. So, in 2003, he founded the ATA, which has operated in Porgera with an all-volunteer staff and material support from friends, victims' relatives, and even local businessmen and officials.