by mininginjustice | Mar 12, 2022 | Community Statements
We cannot mine our way to climate justice The mining industry is increasingly framing itself as part of a just transition but is a major contributor to climate change. Many are predicting a need to mine significantly more in order to ‘transition’ away from fossil...
by mininginjustice | Dec 7, 2021 | MISN Update, News, Open Letter, Urgent Action
Indigenous Land Defender, Vanessa Gray, was targeted at her home by Toronto Police Services who charged her in connection to a solidarity action in Toronto attended by hundreds of people on November 21st in response to a violent raid on Wet’suwet’en Territory. Vanessa has been released with conditions, but her targeted arrest must be condemned.
by mininginjustice | Nov 23, 2016 | Community Statements, MISN Update
On November 30th, the Inuit community of Clyde River and organizations representing Inuit across the Canadian Arctic will head to the Supreme Court of Canada to defend their rights to meaningfully participate in decisions about extractive industries in their...
by mininginjustice | Sep 30, 2016 | Community Statements, MISN Update, Urgent Action
In an amazing expression of solidarity, hundreds of individuals and organizations signed a letter in solidarity with women land defenders. This letter was sparked by recent and ongoing attacks against women land defenders who, at great personal risk, continue to speak...
by mininginjustice | Jun 16, 2016 | Case Studies, News, Open Letter
This statement was read at a Rally outside the TPP townhall convened by MP Chrystia Freeland at the University of Toronto on June 15. Words by MISN member Jen Mills. I’m a member of the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, a Toronto-based activist group that organizes...
by mininginjustice | Apr 19, 2014 | Open Letter
Dear Minister Baird, We are outraged and deeply saddened by the news of the murder of Carlos Mejía Orellana on April 11, 2014, a journalist and marketing director of Radio Progreso, a Jesuit community-based radio station in El Progreso, Honduras. We would like to...
