... Tens of decentralized direct actions continue to occurr across the country.
All of these actions are coordinated through a newly emerging coalition called the National Alliance against Water Privatization ...
... expressed that the issue should be addressed regionally, since important rivers such as the Lempa, the main watershed in the national territory, are shared across the region and can be contaminated from ...
... popular organizing, which American and other activists might want to pay attention to and learn from. It is also a tale of collaborations across causes, sectors, geographic areas, and national borders. ...
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While the law was introduced with cross-party support a year ago, community organizations are concerned that the results of March 4th legislative elections could put the ban at risk. Power in the legislature ...
... World Bank, which also included the construction of 12 hydroelectric dams, and a highway across the mountainous region of the country to connect the economic activity resulting from these mega projects. ...
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Indeed, that vote ricocheted across the Pacific to the Philippines, which has emerged as one of the hot spots in the global fight of “water protectors” to end destructive industrial mining. In November ...
... precedent to bolster anti-fracking grassroots movements in different corners of the country.
In El Salvador, the municipal referendums proved to be a powerful force, with ripple effects all across the ...
... but then a number of people visited large-scale mines just across the border in Honduras and returned home with horrifying tales of polluted water, health ailments, and rising conflict in the communities ...
... across all our operations,” OceanaGold stated in a media release February 14, 2017, the day it received the suspension order.
Padilla begs to differ. “The reality of OceanaGold’s so-called ‘responsible ...
... The lecture focused on three main topics: the toxic legacy of the San Sebastian gold mine in the department of La Union, the looming threat of at least 28 mining concessions across El Salvador (particularly ...