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21. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Bad River coming to support Planned Parenthood and vice versa,” he says. Imagine teachers, farmers, environmentalists, health workers, all working together. “That’s how they got the ban. There’s a lot ...; Created on 07 May 2018
22. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... are farmers who have never seen the effects of a mining project first hand. To create an initial support base, local organizations such as ARDM (the Association for the Reconstruction and Municipal Development ...; Created on 26 June 2017
23. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... another audience member, Michael Klug, asked one of the GoldCorp reps if Salvadoran subsistence farmers should accept the El Dorado mine in their community, he backed off and said, “no,” while still extolling ...; Created on 08 March 2017
24. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Canadian-Australian mining firm that wanted to mine gold in El Salvador. As the firm explored for gold in northern El Salvador, it set off large-scale community opposition. Farmers and other community ...; Created on 03 March 2017
25. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... What they wanted was to extract the rich veins of gold buried near the Lempa River, the water source for more than half of El Salvador’s 6.2 million people. Instead, local farmers and others came together ...; Created on 10 November 2016
26. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the military and the paramilitary killed over 500 farmers. The political legacy of the resistance can be seen on murals all over the village. Even archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980, appears ...; Created on 03 February 2016
27. New Laws Seek to Limit Mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); By Carmen Rodriguez: Cipamericas Since 2014, organized farmers from several municipalities of the department of Chalatenango, located in the north of the country, have expressed their full rejection ...; Created on 02 January 2016
28. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... a plea to the United States: “I would call on the American people and the organizations in charge of this initiative to take into consideration the worries of the Salvadoran people, the farmers, the ranchers, ...; Created on 06 August 2014
29. Ángel Ibarra: “We will promote environmental sustainability in the country”: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... society, a key task will be to encourage the involvement of community, environmental, farmers, and women organizations so that together we build a strategy to solve major environmental conflicts and change ...; Created on 28 May 2014
30. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... which contributes to a culture of impunity that suppresses activism and emboldens further abuse.” Such impunity is particularly entrenched in Cabañas. Francisco Pineda is one of the many farmers who ...; Created on 13 February 2014
31. Environmentalists step up pressure on El Salvador's 2014 presidential candidate: (Background and reports ); ... disease among Salvadoran farmers who live in the coastal regions has government officials scrambling to explain the source of the disease, and the December evacuation of thousands of residents in the department ...; Created on 20 January 2014
32. OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia's OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The ...; Created on 13 January 2014
33. The Real Cost of Gold in the Philippines: (2013 North America Tour); We think of gold as a sign of prosperity, but the farmers and communities most affected by mining just want their rivers and land back. by John Cavanagh, Robin Broad First published in: http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/the-real-cost-of-gold-in-the-philippines ...; Created on 22 September 2013
34. Chalk Up Another Victory for "Free Trade": Mining Companies Sue El Salvado: (2013 Fact Finding Mission); ... farmers onto plantations. The police, formed to enforce this economic model, was unable to crush the political organizing and periodic uprisings occurring throughout the ’20s and into the early ’30s, ...; Created on 08 July 2013
35. Economic Growth, “Development,” and the Triple Crisis: Reflections on El Salvador and Gold Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... is and what it is not. Salvadoran farmers told me about mining executives from the Canadian firm Pacific Rim and others coming into their towns around eight years ago as mining prices started to skyrocket ...; Created on 24 October 2012
36. Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement Responds: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that, “Peasant farmers from the northern Salvadoran province of Cabañas fear that mining operations by Pacific Rim planned for the region will consume 30,000 litres of water a day, drawn from the same ...; Created on 30 April 2012
37. Congressional Briefing: Do Trade Agreement International Investor Protections Imperil Local Communities and the Environment?: (Background and reports ); ... gold mine continue. Chevron v. Ecuador. After 18 years of litigation in two countries, 30,000 indigenous peoples and farmers in Ecuador’s Amazon won a historic $18 billion ruling ordering Chevron to ...; Created on 04 April 2012
38. Political Candidates Answer to Anti-Mining Activists in San Salvador and Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Conceratcion Nacional, Luis Urías´s turn to speak. He emphasized mining in his presentation but also focused on support for farmers, promoting dignified housing for those people living in extreme poverty, ...; Created on 12 March 2012
39. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... neighbourhood in the fertile, mineral-rich Bajo Agua region, where for years subsistence farmers and indigenous Hondurans have been forcibly displaced, criminalized and killed in conflicts with powerful ...; Created on 07 October 2020
40. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be an environmental activist. Over the past two decades, more than 100 farmers in the Bajo Aguán have been killed in incidents related to land struggles, ...; Created on 25 September 2020

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