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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...

Water Forum of El Salvador Opposes the Government's Mining Suspension

| 2013 North America Tour
Water Forum of El Salvador Opposes the Government's Mining Suspension Today, sitting beneath banners that read “For sustainability and the Right to Water” the Water Form of El Salvador held a press conference to express their disapproval for the Mining Suspension Bill presented by the Executiv...

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...

Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’

| 2013 North America Tour
Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’ AL GEDICKS AND ERIC HANSEN | UW-La Crosse professor (Midwest Coalition against Lethal Mining member) and outdoor writer, respectively If no mining company has been able to meet the standards of Wisconsin’s mining morat...

Informacion para participantes

| 2013 Fact Finding Mission
Muchas por registrarse para participar en la delegación y por su interés por saber más sobre el tema de la minería en El Salvador. Esperamos que por medio de esta experiencia los participantes desarrollen un conocimiento más profundo sobre las afectaciones de minería metálica en comunidades de El...

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