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1. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Dorado gold mine near San Isidrio, Cabañas. The 12-year fight transformed a local outcry into a nation-wide movement with international support. Their organizing drive culminated in March 2017 when El ...; Created on 24 August 2018
2. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... say no to big money. Organizing the Cinquera Referendum The process of citizen mobilization and education did not prove easy for the organizers of the Cinquera referendum. Political allegiances run deep ...; Created on 26 June 2017
3. How communities in El Salvador are organizing to block mining projects: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Sandra Cuffe : Waging NonViolence Communities and organizations in northern El Salvador continue to organize referendums in an effort to keep their territories free of mining. Established by the country’s ...; Created on 05 March 2017
4. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... (or around) April 22 (Earth Day) and to finish on April 30th. We are asking groups like yours to join Salvadoran social movement organizations in organizing solidarity actions to take place in cities ...; Created on 08 April 2023
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... industry. This is unique in the region, the result of years of organizing by social groups, environmental organizations, and the Catholic Church. Under President Nayib Bukele, however, this mining ...; Created on 06 April 2023
6. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); SPRING Samantha Ponting “I was born and lived more than half my life in Lepanto, the location of the Lepanto Consolidated mine,” said Chandu Claver, an Indigenous land defender, in a recorded presentation ...; Created on 12 May 2021
7. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... and journalists in Tocoa. Read news coverage based on evidence, not alarm. The roots of conflict Communities in Tocoa have persisted in organizing against the mines since 2011, when the Carlos Escaleras ...; Created on 06 May 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Bautista also had political motives including but not limited to Rivera’s anti-mining organizing. The authors also tell us, unsurprisingly, that Salvadoran authorities never seriously investigated Rivera’s ...; Created on 11 April 2021
9. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 05 April 2021
10. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Sea. Due to his organizing work, Roldan has been repeatedly red-tagged, endangering his life. Cristeta Sison, both a farmer and a fisherfolk, leads an anti-mining initiative in Zambales and Pangasinan ...; Created on 07 October 2020
11. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... are the most drastic measures used to stop Garífuna organizing so they can eventually hand their territories over to transnational capital.” Our Garífuna ancestors arrived in Honduras in 1797 and have ...; Created on 03 September 2020
12. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... predatory mining industry in Latin America and other parts of the world. The same attributes that have enabled communities to fight uphill battles against mining harms year after year — like organizing ...; Created on 23 July 2020
13. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... In a majority of these cases, the communities most affected by the mining projects have been actively organizing to defend their territories and natural commons. For local residents, these projects are ...; Created on 03 May 2020
14. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); ... Abarca award for environmental defense. MODEVITE has a presence in eleven municipalities, organizing with Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Ch’ol Indigenous peoples from the highlands and lowlands of Chiapas who are ...; Created on 26 December 2019
15. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... of these cases, communities have been actively organizing to resist mining activities and defend their land, health, environment, self-determination, and ways of life. “Mining and other extractive ...; Created on 03 May 2019
16. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
17. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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. ...; Created on 07 May 2018
18. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... have campaigned for years for an all-out ban on metallic mining in the country, organizing marches, bill proposals, and local actions. Residents of five municipalities in the northern departments of Chalatenango ...; Created on 16 April 2017
19. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Allies Against Mining in El Salvador, a key organizing and solidarity group. Over the past three years, Cabezas has worked within local networks to organize municipal referendums on mining. In community ...; Created on 16 April 2017
20. Letter Submitted to the Legislature to Demand the Return of the Proposed Law Banning Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Mesa consider themselves an interested party in the subject as they are involved in community organizing and political advocacy to prohibit mining that involves them on the subject. Members of La Mesa ...; Created on 10 February 2017

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