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1. Community of San Jose Las Flores commemorates 11th anniversary of the defeat of a mining company.: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); By P. Cabezas As the morning sun rises on the town of San Jose las Flores, members of the community prepare for the annual pilgrimage to the Urbina Hills, the site that once was the main exploration ...; Created on 27 September 2016
2. Arcatao: participatory democracy defeats mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Marina Bonneti Successful referendum puts Municipality of Arcatao among the few official Mining-Free Territories in El Salvador On Sunday, November 8th Arcatao became the fourth Municipality in the ...; Created on 11 November 2015
3. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... vote was a major political defeat for human rights advocates and a glowing victory for corporate players in the mining industry who profit from extrajudicial killings, environmental destruction and displacement. ...; Created on 12 May 2021
4. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 23 April 2021
5. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to defeat a lawsuit by OceanaGold, a multinational firm that argued the Salvadoran government did not have the right to prohibit mining. How Salvadorans achieved such major wins against enormous odds ...; Created on 05 April 2021
6. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Cinderella “Bravo to the courageous Salvadorans—and their likely and unlikely allies—who prove that victories against overwhelming odds are possible. If they can defeat Big Gold, then surely we can have ...; Created on 14 January 2021
7. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for billions of dollars. Just as El Salvador defeated Pac Rim, we need your support for many other cases. Our support is not from the top down, as international cooperation traditionally operates, but ...; Created on 15 July 2020
8. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... has supported the people of El Salvador in a gigantic battle that led to a defeat against OceanaGold mining corporation at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ...; Created on 02 September 2019
9. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Both cases were defeated by the Government´s legal team with support from allies in the international community. Pacific Rim also engaged in high level lobbying of national ...; Created on 08 February 2018
10. Can Victory Over Irresponsible Mining in Central America Spur a Win in the Philippines?: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); John Cavanagh, Robin Broad : RAPPLER OceanaGold was stunningly defeated in El Salvador last March. Can it be defeated in the Philippines by 2019? In March 2017, the small nation of El Salvador took ...; Created on 01 February 2018
11. Media Coverage: Victory of El Salvador Vs Pacific Rim: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... World Bank disputes body over El Salvador arbitration The Nation: El Salvador Ruling Offers a Reminder of Why the TPP Must Be Defeated Truth Out: El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight EcoAmericas: ICSID ...; Created on 09 November 2016
12. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... simultaneously hold protest actions across the Pacific together with solidarity groups in Australia, United States, and Canada to defeat the harassment suit. Fighting the free-trade agenda A running ...; Created on 26 September 2016
13. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... of legal defeats suffered by the company show that CGC had launched these frivolous law suits only to avoid responsibility for the contamination. In March 2010, a ruling of the Contentious Administrative ...; Created on 02 March 2016
14. SECOND MUNICIPALITY DECLARED FREE OF METAL MINING IN EL SALVADOR: (Territories Free of Mining); ... food and water was defeated as the right wing parties, ARENA and PCN went back on early commitments to support the reform. Earlier in October a reversal of fortunes for the water rights movement ...; Created on 01 December 2014
15. International community responds massively in support of El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... 200.000 before it is delivered to OceanaGold. Meanwhile, activists in the national and international movement against mining in El Salvador are preparing for continued actions until OceanaGold is defeated ...; Created on 29 September 2014
16. Save the Mining Moritorium: (Commerce Group); ... was defeated by a single vote in 2012. It also asks the legislators to protect Wisconsin's Mining Moratorium law that simply requires a mining permit applicant to prove that mining in metallic sulfides ...; Created on 05 January 2013
17. Communities from Across the Hemisphere Speak out Against Pacific Rim: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... is growing and as people marching in Cabañas said on the 20th “The People United will never be Defeated.” For pictures from the march… For the Mesa’s report of the march in Spanish… For the Solidarity ...; Created on 31 October 2012
18. Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away Last winter, when environmental activists and members of the community of San Sebastian heard about the struggles in Wisconsin to defeat legislation that would pave the ...; Created on 26 July 2012
19. Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty: (FTAs & ISDS); ... scale mining that affect us both in the state of Wisconsin and El Salvador. Like the Salvadoran social movement, MCALM is guided by the principle that only organized people can defeat organized money. ...; Created on 08 June 2012

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