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To our community, in Toronto and elsewhere:
We're writing to let you know that MISN will be going on a hiatus from external organizing for a little while. Everything is okay, there's nothing wrong! We've just experienced some shifts in the membership of our core collective recently that has been making our...
Report-Back: Sit-in targets Chair of Human Rights Subcommittee for ignoring Canadian mining abuses
As the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights begins its country visit of Canada, Human rights activists staged a sit-in today at the North York constituency office of MP Michael Levitt, chair of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights. The...
A filmmaker and an activist visit Peru. You’ll never believe why they were arrested!
This isn’t clickbait. This is real life. This is the Canadian mining industry. Last week two friends of MISN were arrested in Peru after showing a documentary exposing Hudbay Minerals’ track record of human rights and environmental abuses. Stop by this Canadian mining...
Reportback and Media Round-up from Barrick AGM
REPORTBACK: Barrick AGM and the Porgera Women's Delegation Barrick's Annual General Meeting this year focused on survivor-led organizing in Papua New Guinea, as we were honoured to have the presence of two survivor-advocates against sexual violence in Porgera with us...
We Believe Survivors of Canadian Mining and Barrick Gold
April 24, 7pm: We Believe Survivors of Canadian Mining Panel April 25, 10:30am: Barrick AGM Protest, 255 Front St. RSVP via facebook. Every year, we gather outside of the Annual General Meeting of Canadian mining giant Barrick gold, to amplify the voices of those...
LA CONVENCIÓN MINERA DE PDAC PIDE AL PUBLICO QUE #INTERRUMPALAMINERIA (en Ingles: #DISRUPTMINING): ACTIVISTAS RESPONDEN
100 habitantes de Toronto toman un “Tour Toxico” de la Ciudad que termina en la Convención Minera Domingo, 5 de Marzo de 2017 Toronto, Canadá: PDAC, la convención minera más grande del mundo, inició hoy su 85 evento anual en Toronto. En respuesta al pedido de la...
Report-back: Disrupting PDAC 2017!
This year, we intervened in PDAC, the world's largest mining convention in a number of ways! We held a panel event entitled "Belly of the Beast: A Biopsy of TO’s Mining & Financial Sectors" Click here to watch video footage of the panelists' presentations! We...
Press Release – PDAC Mining Convention Asks Public to #DisruptMining: Activists Respond
100 Torontonians go on 'Toxic Tour' of the City Ending at Mining Convention Sunday, March 5th, 2017 Toronto, Canada: PDAC, the largest mining convention in the world, kicked off its 85th annual event in Toronto today. In response to the Prospectors and Developers...
#DisruptPDAC
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), organizes the world's largest mining convention every year in Toronto in March and carries out lobbying efforts in favour of the Canadian mining industry throughout the rest of the year. They describe...