by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Case Studies, Community Statements
“Our Land, Our Life” presents the struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive lands of Crescent Valley, Nevada. Produced by Oxfam America.
by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Case Studies, Community Statements
Speech by Jethro Tulin, Executive Officer,in Akali Tange Association, Highlands of Papua New Guinea at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issueson, on the environmentally destructive impacts of Barrick Gold Porgera Gold Mine, the human rights abuses, and extra...
by mininginjustice | Sep 26, 2009 | Case Studies, Community Statements
video by Izzy Brown: http://www.myspace.com/izzylabrat Lake Cowal is situated 47km north-east of West Wyalong, central western New South Wales and is the biggest inland lake in the state. It is protected under two international agreements on migratory birds with Japan...
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 | 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 | 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...
