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2013 International Support for Mining Ban

Sign Your Organization On to Support the Mesa

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
Sign Your Organization On to Support the Mesa As the debate around mining in the Salvadoran National Assembly heats up, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (the Mesa) is calling for international support as they struggle to protect their environment and natural resourc...

Solidarity for October 20th

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
As thousands of people marched in Cabañas demanding an end to metallic mining in El Salvador, individuals and organizations from Canada to Vancouver showed their solidarity with the anti-mining movement.   The Mining Justice Alliance of Vancouver sent the following greeting, and the Center for E...

Take Action to Support El Salvador’s Human Right to Water

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
Take Action to Support El Salvador’s Human Right to Water On October 20th, thousands of people will be marching in El Salvador to demand their Human Right to water and demonstrate their opposition to gold mining.  Show your support for the communities affected by mining projects and the Sa...

Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away Last winter, when environmental activists and members of the community of San Sebastian heard about the struggles in Wisconsin to defeat legislation that would pave the way for sulfide mining in the northern part of the state, they sent a statement expressing the...

Why we are shouting out against mining injustice

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
Why we are shouting out against mining injustice BY BRENT PATTERSON and MEERA KARUNANANTHAN  JUNE 18, 2012 In the next decade, the Conservative government predicts over $500 billion in investments in the mining and extractive sector here in Canada - a prophecy to be fulfilled by the reckles...

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