by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Case Studies
Produced by the Pulitzer Center, “Congo’s Bloody Coltan” is a quick glimpse at coltan’s role in Congo’s civil war. It was featured on “Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria” in the Fall of 2006. For photographs, resources and...
by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Community Statements
Local resistance to Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán. San Marcos, Guatemala.
by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Case Studies
From Rights Action (http://www.rightsaction.org/video/elest or/): On January 8th and 9th 2007, hundreds of police and soldiers in Guatemala forcibly evicted the inhabitants of several communities who were living on lands that a Guatemalan military government had...
by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Community Statements
Robertsville, Ontario Canada Note: This interview with retired Algonquin Chief Bob Lovelace gives insights into why we have to oppose the destructive and unnatural extraction of dangerous minerals like uranium to protect all citizens. First Nations Law forbids the...
by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Case Studies
The mining company Barrick Gold made millions of dollars by mining copper, silver, and gold on the tropical paradise island of Marinduque in the Philippines. The poverty-stricken local population was left with an environmental and health catastrophe. The canadian...