... Bad River coming to support Planned Parenthood and vice versa,” he says. Imagine teachers, farmers, environmentalists, health workers, all working together. “That’s how they got the ban. There’s a lot ...
... are farmers who have never seen the effects of a mining project first hand.
To create an initial support base, local organizations such as ARDM (the Association for the Reconstruction and Municipal Development ...
... another audience member, Michael Klug, asked one of the GoldCorp reps if Salvadoran subsistence farmers should accept the El Dorado mine in their community, he backed off and said, “no,” while still extolling ...
... Canadian-Australian mining firm that wanted to mine gold in El Salvador.
As the firm explored for gold in northern El Salvador, it set off large-scale community opposition. Farmers and other community ...
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What they wanted was to extract the rich veins of gold buried near the Lempa River, the water source for more than half of El Salvador’s 6.2 million people. Instead, local farmers and others came together ...
... the military and the paramilitary killed over 500 farmers. The political legacy of the resistance can be seen on murals all over the village. Even archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980, appears ...
By Carmen Rodriguez: Cipamericas
Since 2014, organized farmers from several municipalities of the department of Chalatenango, located in the north of the country, have expressed their full rejection ...
... a plea to the United States: “I would call on the American people and the organizations in charge of this initiative to take into consideration the worries of the Salvadoran people, the farmers, the ranchers, ...
... society, a key task will be to encourage the involvement of community, environmental, farmers, and women organizations so that together we build a strategy to solve major environmental conflicts and change ...
... which contributes to a culture of impunity that suppresses activism and emboldens further abuse.”
Such impunity is particularly entrenched in Cabañas. Francisco Pineda is one of the many farmers who ...
... disease among Salvadoran farmers who live in the coastal regions has government officials scrambling to explain the source of the disease, and the December evacuation of thousands of residents in the department ...
El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia's OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The ...
We think of gold as a sign of prosperity, but the farmers and communities most affected by mining just want their rivers and land back.
by John Cavanagh, Robin Broad
First published in: http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/the-real-cost-of-gold-in-the-philippines ...
... farmers onto plantations. The police, formed to enforce this economic model, was unable to crush the political organizing and periodic uprisings occurring throughout the ’20s and into the early ’30s, ...
... is and what it is not. Salvadoran farmers told me about mining executives from the Canadian firm Pacific Rim and others coming into their towns around eight years ago as mining prices started to skyrocket ...
... that, “Peasant farmers from the northern Salvadoran province of Cabañas fear that mining operations by Pacific Rim planned for the region will consume 30,000 litres of water a day, drawn from the same ...
... gold mine continue.
Chevron v. Ecuador. After 18 years of litigation in two countries, 30,000 indigenous peoples and farmers in Ecuador’s Amazon won a historic $18 billion ruling ordering Chevron to ...
... Conceratcion Nacional, Luis Urías´s turn to speak. He emphasized mining in his presentation but also focused on support for farmers, promoting dignified housing for those people living in extreme poverty, ...
... neighbourhood in the fertile, mineral-rich Bajo Agua region, where for years subsistence farmers and indigenous Hondurans have been forcibly displaced, criminalized and killed in conflicts with powerful ...
... is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be an environmental activist. Over the past two decades, more than 100 farmers in the Bajo Aguán have been killed in incidents related to land struggles, ...