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STATEMENT: Mining and the Armed Conflict in Colombia
Today, a vigil was held at the Colombian consulate for the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. The following statement was read by a representative of the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network in solidarity with those resisting Canadian mining in Colombia. "It is...
UPDATE: Spring into Action + Peak Launch Party
Every year, as Canadian mining companies hold their shareholder meetings here in Toronto, we SPRING INTO ACTION with protests, street theatre, art attacks, films screenings, workshops (and more!) to educate, advocate, and agitate in solidarity with communities around...
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...