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Water is Life! Disrupting the flow of the PDAC convention
While the rivers of northern Ontario continue to flow under a dozen inches of ice, mining company executives, government representatives, and industry players flow south, through the doors of Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre for the Prospectors and Developers’...
#DisruptPDAC: A Reportback from PDAC 2022
The world’s biggest mining convention hit Toronto on June 13 2022. MISN and our allies were there to push back and resist the industry's attempts to greenwash its colonial and capitalist destruction like never before. A huge thank you to everyone who helped us shut...
Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Targeted, We Must Escalate Our Organizing
In a bizarre series of events, an anti-racist, immigrant rights organizer was charged yesterday by CP Rail Police in Toronto on an open warrant related to a Wet’suwet’en solidarity action that took place seven months ago in November 2021.
#DisruptPDAC: Call out greenwashing at the world’s biggest mining convention
The world’s biggest mining convention is coming to Toronto and the industry is greenwashing its colonial and capitalist destruction like never before.
Ontario Securities Commission gets major mandate overhaul, renamed Community Safety Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Source: Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) Immediately following the creation of the Ministry of Just Transition, the Ontario Securities Commission gets a new mandate. Now the “Community Safety Commission,” the province’s securities...
Against Green Extractivism
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...
Statement: PDAC cancelled, but health and safety concerns in the mining industry continue
The Prospectors and Developers of Canada’s annual convention (PDAC) announced that they are rescheduling their convention in the interest of public health and safety. While we support any moves away from hosting large gatherings at this time, we question whether the...
Solidarity Statement: From Wet’suwet’en to Tkaronto We Demand an End to the Criminalization of Indigenous Land Defenders
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.
I Believe That We Will Win Reportback
[En español abajo] Thank you to everyone who joined us for I Believe That We Will Win: Launch of Creative Imaginings. It was so uplifting to vision a better world together! Thank you to all of the presenters for dedicating their imaginations to a world without...