Arizona investigative journalist John Dougherty is coming to the Salmar Classic Theatre to screen his documentary Flin Flon Flim Flam on the worldwide operations of Hudbay Minerals, Inc.
The film highlights what he calls Hudbay’s record on human rights and environmental abuses.
“Hudbay has a long history of tightly controlling information released to the media and the public,” Dougherty says.
“This film produced in the U.S. provides a rare glimpse into the operations of one of Canada’s oldest mining companies without the threat of a defamation lawsuit that has been used by Canadian mining companies to stop publication of information in Canada,” says Dougherty.
His film alleges the company knowingly poisoned people in Flin Flon with heavy metals, used strong-arm tactics with a First Nation, stands accused of “heinous crimes” in Guatemala and deployed Peruvian police to tear gas and beat women in Peru, Dougherty says.
Flin Flon Film Flam runs at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 10 at the Salmar Classic Theatre.