By P. Cabezas
As the morning sun rises on the town of San Jose las Flores, members of the community prepare for the annual pilgrimage to the Urbina Hills, the site that once was the main exploration ...
Marina Bonneti
Successful referendum puts Municipality of Arcatao among the few official Mining-Free Territories in El Salvador
On Sunday, November 8th Arcatao became the fourth Municipality in the ...
... vote was a major political defeat for human rights advocates and a glowing victory for corporate players in the mining industry who profit from extrajudicial killings, environmental destruction and displacement. ...
... strategy debates, and breakthroughs of their more than decade-long campaign. The book is an environmentalist playbook, a how-to guide for activists seeking to defeat a power structure that is rigged in ...
... to defeat a lawsuit by OceanaGold, a multinational firm that argued the Salvadoran government did not have the right to prohibit mining.
How Salvadorans achieved such major wins against enormous odds ...
... Cinderella
“Bravo to the courageous Salvadorans—and their likely and unlikely allies—who prove that victories against overwhelming odds are possible. If they can defeat Big Gold, then surely we can have ...
... for billions of dollars. Just as El Salvador defeated Pac Rim, we need your support for many other cases.
Our support is not from the top down, as international cooperation traditionally operates, but ...
... has supported the people of El Salvador in a gigantic battle that led to a defeat against OceanaGold mining corporation at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ...
... of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Both cases were defeated by the Government´s legal team with support from allies in the international community.
Pacific Rim also engaged in high level lobbying of national ...
John Cavanagh, Robin Broad : RAPPLER
OceanaGold was stunningly defeated in El Salvador last March. Can it be defeated in the Philippines by 2019?
In March 2017, the small nation of El Salvador took ...
... World Bank disputes body over El Salvador arbitration
The Nation: El Salvador Ruling Offers a Reminder of Why the TPP Must Be Defeated
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EcoAmericas: ICSID ...
... simultaneously hold protest actions across the Pacific together with solidarity groups in Australia, United States, and Canada to defeat the harassment suit.
Fighting the free-trade agenda
A running ...
... of legal defeats suffered by the company show that CGC had launched these frivolous law suits only to avoid responsibility for the contamination. In March 2010, a ruling of the Contentious Administrative ...
... food and water was defeated as the right wing parties, ARENA and PCN went back on early commitments to support the reform.
Earlier in October a reversal of fortunes for the water rights movement ...
... 200.000 before it is delivered to OceanaGold. Meanwhile, activists in the national and international movement against mining in El Salvador are preparing for continued actions until OceanaGold is defeated ...
... was defeated by a single vote in 2012. It also asks the legislators to protect Wisconsin's Mining Moratorium law that simply requires a mining permit applicant to prove that mining in metallic sulfides ...
... is growing and as people marching in Cabañas said on the 20th “The People United will never be Defeated.”
For pictures from the march…
For the Mesa’s report of the march in Spanish…
For the Solidarity ...
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 ...
... scale mining that affect us both in the state of Wisconsin and El Salvador. Like the Salvadoran social movement, MCALM is guided by the principle that only organized people can defeat organized money. ...