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UPDATE: BRINGING MINING INJUSTICE TO THE FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE
On September 28th Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau participated in the first-ever foreign policy election debate -- hosted by the Munk Debates -- at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto. If Peter Munk (the founder of the world's largest gold mining company Barrick Gold) and his...
Top 5 Reasons to Put Mining Injustice on the Foreign Policy Agenda
Tonight, September 28, Canada's first-ever foreign policy election debate will be held at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, with Harper, Trudeau, and Mulcair in attendance. Here are just a few reasons why mining injustice should be on the agenda for this debate, and the...
URGENT ACTION: HELP PUT MINING JUSTICE ON THE FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA
HELP PUT MINING JUSTICE ON THE FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA (event + social media campaign) On September 28th, the first-ever foreign policy election debate will be held at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto. If it wasn’t being hosted by the Munk Debates, this would be a great...
TAKE ACTION: Tweets to put #MiningInjustice on the Foreign Policy Agenda
Want to bring attention to mining injustice and the need for policy makers to act to end corporate impunity abroad? We’ve made it easy for you! Just cut and paste these pre-made tweets into your twitter feed as a small action to gain visibility for this Canadian...
UPDATE: Spoil Sports vs. Smear Leaders: Street Theatre vs. the Pan Am Games
From July 10th to July 24th, 2015, people waiting in line to attend Pan Am Games events were greeted by an unexpected sight: three people standing on milk crates set up like podiums, moaning and wailing; cheery people with pompoms handing out off-colour bottles of...
UPDATE: Get to Know Pan Am: the Securitization of the Spectacle
On Thursday, July 2nd, 2015, MISN held a world cafe-style event at OISE to discuss the anticipated expansion of police presence in the city of Toronto that would occur due to the upcoming Pan Am Games. Representatives from Black Lives Matter - Toronto, the Ontario...
UPDATE: United Against Hudbay: a protest at Hudbay’s shareholder meeting
From Guatemala to Manitoba, from Arizona to Peru, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities are mobilizing to seek justice and reparations for the crimes, violations and harms carried out by Hudbay Minerals, for the acts of colonization carried out by their mines....
UPDATE: HudBay Minerals Hurts Us All
From Guatemala to Manitoba, from Arizona to Peru, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities are mobilizing to seek justice and reparations for the crimes, violations and harms carried out by Hudbay Minerals, and are organizing in defense of their land and in favour of...
UPDATE: Stop the Suits, Close the (Kangaroo) Court!
On May 15th, 2015, MISN and allies carried out a public theatre action in anticipation of an imminent ruling from a little-known arbitration tribunal at the World Bank that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian-Australian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million for...