... of Wall Street. Undoubtedly, the most vital component was the determination and organizing acumen of the Riveras, Morales, and their allies in the community groups that anchored La Mesa. Yet other community-based ...
... before the mine opened would not increase.
The Sierra Club was the only environmental group to challenge a permit for the mine in 2014, ultimately succeeding in forcing the company to put up $10 million ...
... bear kinship with the Salvadoran water defenders are already active in many parts of this country.
In Alaska, Native groups linked with conservationists to halt the giant Pebble Mine, which would have ...
... start making other people aware of the risk of mining.
Marco Werman: So, Robin, in the book you wrote with John Cavanagh, you chronicle the struggle of this group of Salvadoran activists known as the ...
Guapinol Resiste
On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders.
In its resolution ...
... the Dunedin City Council said this week it was replacing several kilometres of old pipes in the area at a cost of about $6million, council Three Waters group manager Tom Dyer included OceanaGold’s Macraes ...
... groups,” she added.
Community members from Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, accuse Canadian OceanaGold’s copper-gold project of serious human rights and environmental abuses. “In 2018, local indigenous people, ...
... a group of eight lawmakers in introducing the Honduras Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Act of 2021—legislation that lays out a comprehensive framework for combating corruption, impunity, and human rights ...
... has allowed a group of investors from the Washington DC-based firm NeWay Capital to establish an independent governance system as an experiment with privatized jurisdictions.
Hondurans are facing a ...
... mines, but certainly is an issue at some -- in Nevada, Alaska and now apparently in South Carolina,’’ said Bonnie Gestring, who tracks gold mining for the environmental group Earthworks. “It’s something ...
... by the Mining Association of Canada, a lobbying group which from 2013 to 2018 had more contact with Canadian government officials than any other single organization according to a 2019 report from the ...
... corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined this global community of water defenders when representatives ...