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2013 International Support for Mining Ban

Cabañas 2012 Sign On Letter

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
The Mesa is preparing an activity in front of the Attorney General's Office in response to the recent sentences in the cases of violence in Cabañas.  For more information see here. They are asking for international support in their efforts. Below and attached is a solidarity statement outlining...

Anti-Mining Theater

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
Another Example of a National Unified Mining Resistance In December, fifteen high school students from Carasque, Chalatenango piled into a van and made the six hour trek from their home to Santa Rosa de Lima in La Union.  For many of them it was the first time they had ever traveled outsi...

Communities from Across the Hemisphere -Front Page

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
Save the Mining Moratorium Law   The state of Wisconsin’s mining legislation is some of the strongest in the country and the world.  Their “prove it first” law requires mining companies to show that mining in metallic sulfides has been done safely elsewhere in North America, and since no minin...

The Mesa’s Public Pressure Campaign Heats Up

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
The Mesa’s Elections Campaign Heats Up With the midterm elections less than a month away the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (the Mesa in Spanish) has increased their pressure on candidates from all the political parties in El Salvador, demanding they declare their sta...

The Mesa Pressures Candidates, Dec 2011

| 2013 International Support for Mining Ban
The Mesa Announces its New Elections Campaign In light of the upcoming elections and the fact that the bill to ban mining is still stuck in the Legislative Assembly, the Mesa, together with other environmental coalitions, has publicly announced its new campaign to pressure decision makers.  I...

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