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Hot Docs 2009 Trailers: H2OIL
Alberta's oil sands now make Canada America's major oil supplier, but the billion-dollar industry extracts a terrible price: some of the cleanest water on earth is used to make the dirtiest oil in the world, with catastrophic results.
Mining the New American West
For centuries the American West has been the realm of cowboys, miners and frontiersman. Since 1872 mining companies have been reaping the benefit of an antiquated law allowing mining companies to purchase land at bargain prices, such as the recent acquisition of an...
Gold, Impunity and Violence in El Salvador
Assassination of anti-mining resistance leader, Marcelo Rivera, sparks campaign of terror against activists
Our Land, Our Life
"Our Land, Our Life" presents the struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive lands of Crescent Valley, Nevada. Produced by Oxfam America.
Jethro Tulin at UNPFII
Speech by Jethro Tulin, Executive Officer,in Akali Tange Association, Highlands of Papua New Guinea at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issueson, on the environmentally destructive impacts of Barrick Gold Porgera Gold Mine, the human rights abuses, and extra...
Lake Cowal: Wiradjuri vs Barrick Gold
video by Izzy Brown: http://www.myspace.com/izzylabrat Lake Cowal is situated 47km north-east of West Wyalong, central western New South Wales and is the biggest inland lake in the state. It is protected under two international agreements on migratory birds with Japan...
In Focus: Congo’s Bloody Coltan
Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" in the Fall of 2006. For photographs, resources and additional reporting by Mvemba Phezo...
Eight Mayan Women
Local resistance to Goldcorp's Marlin Mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán. San Marcos, Guatemala.
Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala
From Rights Action (http://www.rightsaction.org/video/elest or/): On January 8th and 9th 2007, hundreds of police and soldiers in Guatemala forcibly evicted the inhabitants of several communities who were living on lands that a Guatemalan military government had...