From the beginning, members of La Mesa realized that their efforts to stop mining in El Salvador must go beyond Salvadoran boundaries. Most mining companies in El Salvador are foreign corporations that ...
... decades speaking out contamination of water sources by mining projects, were arrested in January after mining officials visited their town of Santa Marta.
MEXICO CITY — It was considered a major environmental ...
... is worthwhile.
Another neighbor speaking against the expansion said he’s unnerved by the gold mine’s recent history of violating environmental laws. The Haile Gold Mine and a laboratory have been fined ...
... speaking to Democracy Now! from her home in Honduras in July.
MIRIAM MIRANDA: [translated] What happened is a reflection of systemic persecution, systemic repression, but also a well-crafted plan by ...
... shortages and contaminate water supplies with arsenic and heavy metals, putting people, plants, and animals at risk.
Speaking to a crowd of all ages that gathered to celebrate La Puya´s anniversary on ...
... show her audience video footage of Salvadoran community leaders speaking about their ongoing struggles. Bringing the words of community leaders directly to a Canadian audience proved a powerful experience ...
... from Kairos read from a solidarity statement released by organizations in the Philippines also speaking out against the potential harms of OceanaGold’s operations. Local organizations in Nueva Vizcaya ...
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"By speaking of a common struggle in Central America, we take a major step, because we see the same patterns of criminalization of social movements and popular struggles; and the dispossession of indigenous ...
Von Svenja Riebow: Amerika21 - Translation: Marina Bonetti
From September 30th to October 15th, Bernardo Belloso, president of the Association for Development travelled on a speaking tour through Germany, ...
... strategies without the threat of being bullied by abusive multinational corporations. Cortez and Gálvez are speaking in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto May 11- 15. For details, visit: Stop the Suits Tour, ...
... issues of local concern provided that “40% of eligible voters in the municipality request in writing that a popular consultation is called”
Speaking to the press, Mr. Tobar explained that members of ...
... in: http://ciel.org/wordpress_211560016/?p=1681
On July 25, CIEL co-hosted a brownbag lunch discussion featuring Teodoro Antonio Pacheco, a Salvadoran environmental activist who is speaking out against ...
... farm-lands, to their lives and to the lives of their children,” Mr Cleary said.
Vidalina has arrived in Australia to commence today a two week speaking tour “Water Not Gold” to raise awareness of the ...
... in El Salvador and has travelled extensively through South and North America speaking about El Salvador’s fight against mining. In 2009 she gave the acceptance speech for the Mesa’s Letelier-Moffitt Human ...
... finding mission in April this year. It is also organising, with the support of a few Australian civil society organisations, a national speaking tour featuring a community leader from San Isidro. More ...
By Jim Hogson*
Vidalina Morales, a member of the board of a United Church partner in El Salvador, is part of the “Water is More Precious Than Gold” cross-Canada speaking tour. On behalf of El Salvador’s ...
For Immediate Release
‘Water is More Precious than Gold’ speaking tour to challenge US/Canada’s international mining practices
WHAT: Salvadoran activists will travel to Canada and the US to garner ...
... that actually started before CAFTA, just because the governmental authorities were kind enough to keep speaking to the company about their permits.
-Through this narrow dismissal of the CAFTA complaint, ...
... Canvanagh and Vidalina Morales De Gamez of La Mesa Nacional Frente a la Minería Metálica in El Salvador will be speaking at ‘Shout Out Against Mining Injustice’ this June 1-2 in Vancouver. To register ...
... fees. This has not stopped the company from speaking out in the media, and this November Mr. John Machulak, the lawyer for the Commerce Group, was interviewed on Milwaukee Public Radio where he misrepresented ...