... to join the Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power. We are a coalition of more than 200 social movements, organizations and popular actions, and specific campaigns targeting companies that are active in ...
... of Investment Disputes, an international arbitration organization.
Al Gedicks, emeritus professor of environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and a founder of the Midwest Coalition ...
Rufo Valencia - Radio Canada International
Manuel Perez Rocha interviewed by Radio Canada International. Click here to hear the interview.
One year ago, an international coalition of civil society organizations, ...
... to reject a recently proposed "Comprehensive Water Law", presented to parliament by a coalition of right-wing parties.
The letter condemns renewed attempts to privatize water resources in the country ...
... coalition building, and direct political participation by the people of El Salvador.
The arguments placing life and water over gold took root, uniting the entire nation under the banner “No to mining, ...
... They launched a coalition, the National Roundtable on Metals Mining, in 2005.5 Their petitions, protests, murals, and press conferences spread education about the precarious situation that mining posed ...
... time to coordinate with other Canadian groups and to maintain a permanent link with the international coalition and the Roundtable. “These processes are not pretty. Differences always arise, but we showed ...
... vote to ban mining.
But the push for a mining prohibition remained strong. To support the anti-mining coalition, Carlos Padilla, Governor of Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, visited El Salvador to share ...
... forward in the Congress, and the latest proposal is likely to continue to face an uphill battle in the conservative-dominated assembly.
In 2013, a national coalition against metals mining presented a ...
... Labor Rights Forum
Latin America Solidarity Committee, Milwaukee
Latin America Working Group
Madison Arcatao Sister City Project
MH-VT Guatemala Accompaniment Project
Midwest Coalition Against Lethal ...
... organization, La Mesa, a coalition of community organizations, research institutions, and non-profit organizations advocating against metals mining in El Salvador in this investment dispute.
http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/12579IIED.pdf? ...
... reforms to attract foreign mining firms. But a community-based social movement changed that.
Led by a decade-old Salvadoran coalition “roundtable” (with some international support) against mining, this ...
... a national coalition to ban metal mining in the country, known as La Mesa Frente a la Mineria Metalica (National Roundtable Against Metal Mining). La Mesa's message rapidly resonated across the country. ...
... clean, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation for all”.
Members for the Environmental Alliance - a hub for diverse environmental coalitions that seek a green agenda for El Salvador- ...
... coalitions and grass roots organizations have been working for the past decade to address the freshwater crisis in one of most water-stressed countries in the world,” said Meera Karunananthan, international ...
... a landmark in a changing tide. It is why coalitions of people affected by corporate human rights violations celebrated as 20 governments voted in favour of a resolution to establish an open-ended intergovernmental ...
... the area since the 80s, such as CRIPDES, CORDES and CCR, have since remained active members of the National Round Table Against Metallic Mining - La Mesa, a national coalition that has permanently advocated ...
... (ADES) in Cabañas, El Salvador, which is a member of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador. La Mesa, a coalition of civil society organizations that have opposed the introduction ...
... which opposes the mine. Last week in Washington, Pacheco led a coalition of activists in presenting an amicus curiae brief to the World Bank tribunal, calling on it to exonerate the government.
Will ...
... public pressure for a permanent ban on mining. The National Roundtable Against Mining in El Salvador - La Mesa, a coalition of civil society organizations that include rural development organizations, ...