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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...
CONFRONT BARRICK GOLD! May 2 Annual General Meeting Protest
Once a year, the board of Directors of the world's most powerful gold mining corporation converge in downtown Toronto. Join us and representatives from mining-impacted communities to... CONFRONT BARRICK GOLD! Join Occupy Toronto in targeting a company that represents...
Goldcorp’s “true story” of corporate neglect displayed at Dundas and Yonge intersection
Press release April 26, 2012 Goldcorp’s “true story” of corporate neglect displayed at Dundas and Yonge intersection “Goldcorp is Canada’s shame,” states a young participant, Valerie Croft, and member of Amnesty International. “We are all complicit so long as Goldcorp...