... 2014 and the decision is due to be handed down in the next few weeks.
The campaign against OceanaGold is taking place in many countries. In Washington DC many protests of the case have taken place at ...
... the country. Therefore we are concerned that mining and other environmental issues are notably absent again the election campaign, "said Edgardo Mira, from the National Roundtable Against Mining, La Mesa. ...
... corporations, again
Large corporations are paying too little in taxes and too much in campaign contributions. The top Wall Street banks have again become too big to fail. Walmart, ExxonMobil and others ...
The Mesa’s Elections Campaign Heats Up
With the midterm elections less than a month away the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (the Mesa in Spanish) has increased their pressure ...
... the five men helped lead a campaign to ban metals mining in 2017 and protect El Salvador’s primary source of clean water, the Lempa River Basin. The countrywide ban was the first of its kind anywhere in ...
... Agreement and the National Reconciliation Law, both signed in 1992
CALL FOR SUPPORT
As part of the international campaign to defend the historic mining ban, and to call for the immediate release ...
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Despite of the success of the campaign and the fact that the mining prohibition has been in force for the last four years, La Mesa affirms that there has been no commitment on the part of the Salvadoran ...
... forward some nice rhetoric on the campaign trail to burnish their progressive image and deflect international criticism, their practice in government has been largely the same as Stephen Harper’s, putting ...
... road to the mine. In response, community members in Tocoa, including Morazán, established the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods to campaign against the dispossession of natural ...
... strategy debates, and breakthroughs of their more than decade-long campaign. The book is an environmentalist playbook, a how-to guide for activists seeking to defeat a power structure that is rigged in ...
... In an interview with TerraJusta, activist Raffaele Morgantini – representative of the Swiss organization CETIM and the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power at the UN – said the main challenge today ...
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Ron Guy
Spokesperson for the Australian National Campaign on Mining in the Philippines (ANCoMP) Andrew Morrison believes that Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold is misleading the ...
... Pacific Rim gold mine. Their account is rife with valuable detail about the mobilizations, negotiations, alliance building, international campaigns, and legal maneuvers that stopped the Pacific Rim mining ...
... movements have lost similar battles all over the world, so what else was critical to their achievement? One factor was La Mesa’s education campaigns, which creatively spread the word on the science of ...
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Gold mining uses toxic chemicals like cyanide that poison water. But a global mining company attempted to buy public support by launching flashy PR campaigns, funding local projects, and hiring expensive ...
... awardee
“Broad and Cavanagh are masterful storytellers. The words, deeds, and stories of people in El Salvador come alive so vividly in these pages to reinforce what we in the Poor People’s Campaign ...
... particularly in Bulacan, Pampanga, and Bataan provinces since 2000.
As a fisherfolk himself, he was involved in a campaign against the China’s takeover of Philippines’ islands in the West Philippine ...
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The community has been militarized, and its leaders subjected to threats, harassment and smear campaigns. Several residents fled, seeking asylum in the US to escape criminal persecution, in a case widely ...
... from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community.
“He’s ...