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News: Hudbay Minerals Former Head of Security On Trial for Mining-Related Murder, Shooting-Paralyzing
As precedent-setting civil lawsuits continue in Canada against Hudbay Minerals and CGN (Hudbay’s former subsidiary in Guatemala), the criminal trial against Hudbay/CGN’s former security chief, Mynor Padilla, for a murder and shooting-woundings at Hudbay’s then mine...
URGENT ACTION: Telesforo Pivaral Murdered near Tahoe Resources’ Mine
CALAS – Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (translated by Breaking the Silence) (version en espanol aqui) Mr. Telesforo Odilio Pivaral Gonzalez was Member of the Community Resistance in El Volcancito, in the municipality of San Rafael Las Flores, Santa...
UPDATE: Get to Know Pan Am… the Displacement Behind the Spectacle
On March 7th, 2015, MISN hosted a world cafe discussion event on the upcoming Pan American Games. The event description read: "Not sure what the Pan Am games are? Not sure why you might organize around them? Not sure what Pan Am has to do with mining injustice,...
UPDATE: PDAC Spoofed: It’s funny because it’s absurd; it’s tragic because it’s true
Today at the world’s largest mineral event, members of the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) were out in force, welcoming attendees of the Prospectors and Developers Association Convention (PDAC) to the “World’s largest corporate colonial supervillain...
Update: Mining Companies Have Been Very Bad This Year…
On Wednesday, December 10, carollers dressed in Santa suits walked through the financial district singing altered Christmas songs as they delivered a guilty verdict and lumps of coal to Toronto-based mining companies GoldCorp, Barrick Gold and Excellon Resources. The...
Open Letter: In Response to the Murder of Carlos Mejia Orellana
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...
News: Merilyn Topacio Reynoso, activist resisting against Tahoe Resources murdered
Late on the night of Sunday the 13th of April, Alex Reynoso and Merilyn Topacio Reynoso - father and daughter activists involved in the resistance against Canadian company Tahoe Resources’ Escobal Mine in Guatemala - were attacked by unknown suspects. Alex and Merilyn...
Urgent Action: Call for an End to Police Intimidation and Eviction Threats
The National Police, at the service of US mining company Kappes Cassiday and Associates (KCA), have been carrying out acts of intimidation and threatening eviction against communities in resistance at La Puya, just north of Guatemala City. Early April 9, a local...
Urgent Action: Join the Ejido’s Call for Good Faith Negotiations Without Repression
Join the Ejido's call for good faith negotiations without repression Since the morning of Tuesday April 1, the Ejido Carrizalillo in Guerrero, Mexico has blocked operations at Goldcorp's Los Filos mine in revindication of their territorial rights following expiration...