October 8th, 2013 Milwaukee Magazine In the end, salad dressing was not poured onto the sidewalk. Steve Watrous, a sociology instructor at MATC’s Downtown campus and one of the activists who organized Monday’s protest outside the law office of Machulak, Robertson and Sodos, couldn’t remember the exact variety demonstrators had selected – Newman’s Own, something with garlic. What […]
By Alexandra Early The Salvadoran people have been waiting for seven years for the Legislative Assembly to pass a comprehensive law to protect their right to safe and clean water. In July they decided they are done waiting and staged a series of rallies, road blocks and press conferences to pressure the legislature to […]
On July 4th,the Movement of Popular Resistance (MPR-12) and Confederation of the Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS) held a rally and press conference in front the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly demanding the assembly pass a Food Sovereignty Law with a gender equality focus. The MPR-12 is a coalition conformed unions, organizations of farmers and poor urban folks and […]
From May 10th to 13th, thirty activists from 12 different countries, including Canada, the U.S., Germany, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras, participated in a fact finding mission in El Salvador to investigate the effects of gold mining on the environment, public health and social cohesion. The delegation was organized by the National Rountable Against Mining […]
November 11th, 2012, by Alexandra Early and Janice Morrill On October 20th, hundreds of people marched in Cabañas, El Salvador to voice their opposition to the proposed gold mining project of Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining company. The anti-mining movement in El Salvador has been growing over the past decade and in 2007, under pressure […]
CounterPunch Magazine: Central America’s Newest “Death Squad Democracy” September 14, 2012 by Andy Thayer, part of the September La Voz de los de Abajo delegation My first day in Honduras last week was also my first in a truly “Third World” country, though from what I’ve seen, portions of Russia and the Appalachians could give […]
The results of water samples taken by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), which were collected two thousand five hundred meters from the bed of the San Sebastian River, in the area of the hamlet of El Comercio in Santa Rosa de Lima, confirmed the presence of cyanide and iron, among other […]
1. The Costs of ICSID Arbitration and the Consequences for Social Rights in El Salvador (See Below) 2. Salvadoran Activists Hold Protest in Solidarity with Indigenous Mining Resisters in Panama By Jan Morrill, International Allies Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador On February 10th, as clashes continued between the government of Panama and indigenous groups […]
February 6, 2012 The struggle against mining is gaining force in the state of Wisconsin. On Thursday, January 26th the Wisconsin Assembly (which has a strong Republican majority) passed a bill that would make the process of gaining iron mining permits in the state easier. The bill is called AB 426, and will now go […]
By Sarah Anderson From the Huffington Post With patriotic fanfare, the Obama administration announced this week that it would ban new uranium mining projects around the Grand Canyon. At a ceremony at the National Geographic Society in Washington, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the ban was “the right approach for this priceless American landscape.” He […]