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Speak Out Against Hudbay Minerals This Week
This week, Hudbay Minerals must answer to El Estor residents and international community. Gang rape, violent evictions, assassinations in Guatemala among concerns. WED. JUNE 13TH, 7PM: Speaking event with Klippenstein’s law firm and screening of Steven Schnoor’s film...
New Members Meetings: Tuesday May 29th, Thursday June 7th
New members meeting (2 options!): Tuesday, May 29, 6:30 pm 252 Bloor Street West (OISE), room 5150 & Thursday, June 7, 7:30 pm Harvest Noon cafe (upstairs from the GSU bar at UofT), 16 Bancroft, Toronto (map) Food provided! A few times a year, MISN holds new...
Day of Action Against Enbridge: Block the Tar Sands Pipeline
** Join us at a regional convergence against Enbridge, the National Energy Board, and tar sands expansion ** Enbridge is being granted a fast-tracked review for their line 9 tar sands pipeline reversal through Ontario. Official hearings beginning London, Ontario on...
New members meeting – 2 options!!
New members meeting (2 options!): Tuesday, May 29, 6:30 pm OISE, room TBA Thursday, June 7, 7:30 pm Location: TBA Food provided! A few times a year, MISN holds new members meetings that are open to anyone interested in contributing to MISN activities. The new members...
Mining Injustice Conference – Bill C-323: Amending Canadian Courts to Hear Foreign Cases
Amani Mustafa Mhinda Amani Mustafa Mhinda is the founder and executive director of the NGO Haki Madini, a Tanzanian policy analysis and advocacy organization working on mining, environment and community issues. He is a lawyer by training and has been actively involved...
Mining Injustice Conference Keynote – Francisco Ramirez Cuellar (Colombia)
Francisco Ramirez Cuellar Francisco is the former President of SINTRAMINERCOL, the union that represented workers in the Colombian state-owned mining company MINERCOL. Currently, he’s Secretary of FUNTRAMIENERGETICA, the federation of Colombian energy sector unions...
Mining Injustice Conference Keynote – Avi Chomsky
Avi Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her books include A History of the Cuban Revolution (Blackwell, 2011), Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global...
Speaker bios for the Mining Injustice Conference! RESISTANCE 2012
Check out all of the amazing speakers that we will have at the Mining Injustice Conference this year – from within Canada and around the world! The conference begins Friday night with a social at the United Steelworkers Hall, and then continues Saturday and Sunday at...
Toronto conference highlights global resistance to Canadian mining
As published on Rabble.ca By Rebecca Bartel At the recent Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated: "Looking to the future, we see increased Canadian mining investment throughout the Americas - something that will be good for our...