Guatemala Solidarity
Kevo Dell
The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya (La Resistencia Pacifica La Puya) published the above announcement regarding the encroachment of members of the National Police into ...
Peace Brigades International
Brent Patterson
On May 21, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in the symbolic act of handing over machinery to the mining company ...
... mine located just north of Guatemala City since March 2010.
The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya, which is made up of members from these communities, has stated, "[The environmental impact assessment] ...
Thomas Mc Donagh and Aldo Orellana López : The Democracy Center
On 29th March 2017 legislators in El Salvador approved a blanket ban on all metal mining activities in the country – the first country ...
... Dora Sorto, they have carried a long moral grief for their absence, but the grief has transcended to communities that continue their resistance against projects that risk the health of natural resources ...
*Oliver Ristau: Frankfurter Rundschau / Translation: Marina Bonetti
“No to mining. Yes to life”: after the mass, the priest stands above an anti-mining mural together with church servants and believers, ...
Antonia Recinos - ADES/Radio Victoria
On Thursday October 22, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining-MNFM and representatives of various communities and social organizations gathered outside ...
by Gloria Orellana
Translated from: http://nuevaweb.diariocolatino.com/resistencia-ciudadana-contra-la-mineria-metalica-en-el-pais/
"We are here on this date to join millions of voices around the world ...
... department. Pacific Rim had been maneuvering for years to receive exploitation approval from the central government as local communities organized resistance to the project. Four anti-mining activists ...
... The water defenders were part of a resistance group fighting the right-wing dictatorship during the war. But they come from Santa Marta, a community founded by displaced people largely considered to be ...
... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...
... members organized as the Peaceful Resistance La Puya have maintained their protest camp since March 2012. The police arrived several hours before the start of a routine action to lift a seizure order on ...
... human rights abuses.
Indigenous resistance to mining An Igorot native and former surgeon, Claver organized against harmful mining projects in the mountainous Cordillera region in the northern Philippines. ...
Counterpunch
Jen Moore
In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...
... corporate power. These alliances allow bad actors to run roughshod over community resistance, from towns like Marcelo Rivera’s to the Brazilian Amazon to the palm oil plantations of Indonesia. Recent investigations ...
... resource extraction system that devastates environments and communities in the Global South and suppresses popular resistance through violence and coercion.
Canadian Mining Operations In Peru Canadian ...
... and terror has been the weapon of the State’s laws and armed forces to silence all resistance.
Around 40% of land defenders killed around the world belong to indigenous communities even though they make ...
... as possible can help other communities to coordinate and fortify their own resistance strategies. In this regard, Equinox Gold’s intransigence and arrogance toward Carrizalillo is only supplying more evidence ...
... Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR).
In Guatemala, the U.S. mining firm Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) relied on repression by private and state security forces to overcome years of local resistance ...
... “They want to lock us up to scare the community and weaken the resistance.”
The mine company did not respond to specific allegations, but in an email said: “Inversiones Los Pinares is a serious, responsible ...