PBI
Brent Patterson
On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...
Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy
Posted By Triplecrisis On June 28, 2012 @ 9:00 am In Guest Bloggers | No Comments
Robin Broad, guest blogger
Today’s ...
... toxic chemicals into local rivers. Prioritizing clean drinking water was a must as climate change worsened droughts in the region.
But the government today appears to be on the verge of turning back ...
... cause for concern. But in El Salvador today, where torture and deadly prison conditions reign under the current state of exception, this quickly becomes a matter of life and death."
While allies of the ...
... human rights violations and crimes against humanity", which took place against the Santa Marta people.
"Today, when the State says to act, it is done to re-victimize the community in something that clearly ...
... carried out under article 64 of the Guatemalan Municipal Code.
We express:
That today, September 21, 2022, at 3:45 pm, we were notified about an injunction against the Commission specifically ...
... Rescue of the Lempa River", are gathered today in response to the threat represented by metal mining exploitation and especially the "Cerro Blanco" mining project, located in the municipality of Asunción ...
... Miriam Miranda became who she is today. Since she was a teenager, Miranda participated in student and social movements; a passionate reader that was a member of the Visitación Padilla Women's Movement, ...
CNCA
Today the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) releases draft model legislation that provides lawmakers with a blueprint for writing into Canadian law the corporate duty to respect ...
... Beaty stated:
“We’ve got this fantastic reputation, and it’s a reputation for excellence, not only in the engineering of mines…it’s our reputation and the other things, things that are important today… ...
... interest and profit even in the face of people’s opposition.”
The presence of foreign companies in resource extraction is part of a long history of colonization in the Philippines that continues today, ...
... 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 ...
... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers.
Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador.
The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...
CNCA
Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused ...
... Is Investigated by U.S. Federal Prosecutors for Drug Trafficking, Corruption
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, and Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) today led ...
NACLA
Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila
It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, ...
... in South Carolina are so contaminated they are today federal Superfund cleanup sites.
The Haile Gold Mine reopened at the site of a historic gold-digging operation after locating gold that miners in ...
... external to the community. We are teaching them to reproduce their own seeds, instead of buying supplies from agro service stores, which today are particularly expensive due to the Covid 19 pandemic ”. ...
... to the 476 million Indigenous Peoples across the globe — the tip of the iceberg of today’s social and economic inequities.
For those already faced with food insecurity due to loss of ancestral lands, ...
PRESS RELEASE
Nov. 26. 2020
Quezon City - Alyansa Tigil Mina strongly condemns the illegal forceful entry today of five fuel trucks by Oceana Gold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI) in Brgy. Didipio, Kasibu, ...