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1. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... has a great deal to teach people around the world struggling to save their communities from corporate predators—whether they are mining corporations, or Amazon, Walmart, Google, ExxonMobil, or the titans ...; Created on 05 April 2021
2. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... "green mining," "modern mining," and "responsible mining." But the experience with metallic mining in Central America, and globally, teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. Central American mines ...; Created on 14 December 2021
3. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); Minería Panamericana Peruvian mining companies were among the hardest hit in a broad wave of sales driven by the close presidential race in which Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre), the rural school teacher ...; Created on 08 June 2021
4. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... oil and gas and mining industries (for example, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s 2020 investment portfolio included $4 billion in assets in the mining and oil and gas sectors); fundraising for impacted ...; Created on 12 May 2021
5. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... favor of their opponents. In the course of their struggle, the water defenders face trials of biblical proportions, including the brutal and unsolved murder of their leader Marcelo Rivera, a teacher ...; Created on 23 April 2021
6. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in the area and private vehicles cannot travel because the street is under repair. María, a retired teacher, says that her family traditionally produces basic grains because the soil has an abundance ...; Created on 05 January 2021
7. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... candidate at the 2010 election. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is a teacher, human rights activist and politician who after her husband's arrest participated in the 2020 Belarusian presidential ...; Created on 29 September 2020
8. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... is not physically here, but his legacy is with us and we must fight for the environment and culture, we have people who remember everything he taught us, and we must teach it to the new generations. " ...; Created on 18 September 2019
9. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... about restarting of operations), they say the mine is going to close, and it is currently under maintenance" , explained Viviana Palma, a young teacher, resident of the village of Trapiche Vargas, jurisdiction ...; Created on 03 May 2019
10. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... other mines in Guatemala had caused, including the destruction of the environment and the impacts on health. The communities were also inspired by the teachings of the Catholic Church, and began to form ...; Created on 27 August 2018
11. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and as the Holy Father said, we inhabit the Common House that teaches us to love life and respect it because the fruits that God were created for everyone. We want the Legislative Assembly to hear us, ...; Created on 10 November 2016
13. MUA calls on Australians to support campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... death threats. In June 2009, Marcelo Rivera, a school teacher, community leader in San Isidro and outspoken opponent of the mine was kidnapped. About two weeks later his body was found with visible signs ...; Created on 28 September 2016
14. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... days in the life of his family. His brother Marcelo “was one of the most known faces of the protest movement against the mine”. One day, six years ago, the teacher did not return home from school. Miguel ...; Created on 03 January 2016
15. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”: (Territories Free of Mining); ... community assemblies and training 150 organizers to make house visits to teach the population about popular consultations. Since some residents of the municipalities have received little schooling in their ...; Created on 18 April 2015
16. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... He was an artist and teacher, Director of Association of Friends of San Isidro (ASIC), Director of the San Isidro Cultural Center, a Board Member for the FMLN Party in Cabañas, and a member of La Mesa. ...; Created on 30 December 2014
17. Mining multinationals exploit Central America: (Water no Gold); ... Rivera was a teacher and prominent community activist in the campaign against the mine. He was disappeared on 18 June 2009. His assassins kept him alive for nine days, during which time they tortured ...; Created on 03 December 2013
18. Concerned Citizens from Across the U.S. Call on a Milwaukee Company to Act Ethically: (Commerce Group); ... theologian Atle Sommerfeldt teaches. It may generate wealth for a few, or, create responsible work for many while still protecting the earth. We urge you to do the latter. More than a hundred years ...; Created on 21 November 2012
19. Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to its remarkable growth, the indigenous movement has established a small University of the Indigenous Peoples of El Salvador, teaching four courses lasting for three and four years. Students can study ...; Created on 19 November 2012
20. Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... outside corporate interests to inform the management of our people’s air, lands, and water. Rather, we have looked to our elders, our children, our teachings, and science to better understand the risks ...; Created on 26 July 2012

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