A delegation of activists from 12 different countries on the fight to stop gold mining in Central America.
by Robin Broad, John Cavanagh
Robin is standing in front of a church in Guatemala ...
Economic Growth, “Development,” and the Triple Crisis: Reflections on El Salvador and Gold Mining
Robin Broad
Let me introduce myself as does my business card: I am a professor of development. I am ...
Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...
... coordinator of Kalikasan PNE, also feared that the new mining order would lead to the “doubling, if not tripling, of environmental disasters and human rights violations in mineral-rich areas” across the ...
... drilling. They would become some of the earliest and most dedicated water defenders. They organized trips in 2004 and 2005 to visit mines in Honduras, where they saw the destroyed forests, dying rivers, ...
... They studied hydrology, they studied geology, they studied mining. They took field trips across that one large river into Honduras where they saw the impact of mining on the environment and on people' ...
... by a strip of approximately 100 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide. Large mining companies with foreign and national capital have established themselves in the so-called golden belt," says the organization ...
... rounded up a delegation to demonstrate to investors that it has local support for its Warintza copper project. The trip was highly controversial. The Shuar Arutam People’s Assembly, the representative ...
... of the Madre Selva collective, pointed out that the intentions of the state of siege, promoted by large landowners, is to strip communities of natural resources. "First, landowners who want to expel communities ...
... that people are dying of the above-mentioned chronic diseases.
The last sediment test carried out in the Ostúa River in 2018 showed a high content of arsenic in the water. The content has tripled between ...
... been killed since Duterte came to power, according to Kalikasan. This is an annual rate that far outstrips his predecessors: it’s more than three times higher than occurred under Benigno Aquino III, and ...
... prize and they shared the podium with The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, the domestic prize winners.
Over 300 people attended the ceremony and the trip to the US was an opportunity ...
... operating the Didipio mine since 2013. As we saw for ourselves in research trips there in 2013 and 2017, it has not met its reforestation requirements.
True, OceanaGold brags that they won awards ...
... We want our incoming legislators to know that we will double and triple our efforts to make sure they do not capitulate to big mining interests,” commented Rodolfo Calles, National Coordinator of the Association ...
... insisting with different offers of employment, trips, and the reconstruction of the town, but we refused, " she said.
"For us this is sacred territory, in the land surrounding San José Las Flores, so ...
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Baños gave some examples of how public institutions with more representation of the private sector are co-opted at the cost of the public interest, examples are the tripartite bodies in the labor sector ...
... protests, petitions, testimonies, reports on the impact of mining, and study trips and delegations. Finally, after seven years of deliberations at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...
... a web of Solidarity
The most significant of the several visits to El Salvador organised by the International Allies, according to our interviewees, was the 2013 fact-finding trip. A delegation of 45 people ...
... mining in the country. Their trip to Assembly reflects the growing grassroots support for a national law banning metal mining in El Salvador.
Bernardo Belloso, the president of CRIPDES (a Salvadoran NGO ...
... company is waiting for political conditions to change to allow it to continue its activities," added Morales, from the community of Santa Marta, Cabañas, during a trip to San Salvador to meet with other ...