WASHINGTON, D.C. – While a World Bank tribunal deliberates on whether to allow a Milwaukee gold mining company’s controversial $100 million lawsuit against the government of El Salvador to move forward, local and international activists continue to pressure the company to withdraw the suit. Commerce Group Corporation is pursuing its suit under the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America […]
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On January 5th, 2011, Steve Watrous, of the Midwest Coalition Against Lethal Mining (MCALM) was interviewed on the Madison radio station, WORT-FM, about the$100 million dollar Commerce Group suit against the government of El Salvador and the anti-mining movement in El Salvador. The Commerce Group Corporation is a Milwaukee based company which owns a gold mine in […]
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By the Communication Team of the Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) Representatives of twenty organizations from Honduras, El Salvador and sister countries participated November 30th and December 1st in the forum "Lessons from Honduras: Challenges, threats and options for the Democratization of Latin America and the Caribbean" at the Lutheran University of El […]
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Contributed by Power in Community Alliances (PICA) The plans of U.S. and Canadian mining companies to begin mining gold in El Salvador continues to threaten Salvadoran rural communities. Salvadoran environmental and anti-mining activists have been assassinated and threatened. Through a free-trade provision closely resembling legal extortion, the Pacific Rim Mining Company continues its CAFTA suit demanding that […]
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By the communications team of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining. After the way mining companies have been rejected by Salvadoran society, refused permits by the government and discredited by links to violence (Pacific Rim in Cabanas) and contamination with cyanide, heavy metals and acid drainage (Commerce Group in Santa Rosa de Lima), you would […]
In Milwaukee, contact Babette Grunow at (414) 447-8369 In Washington, DC, contact Alexis Stoumbelis at (202) 521-2510 In La Crosse, contact Al Gedicks at (608) 785-6782 In El Salvador, contact (in Spanish) David Pereira at 011 503 2225-1906 Ext. 106 In El Salvador ( in English), contact Sarah Bishop at 011 503 785-727-2252 Community […]
No Dirty Gold in El Salvador! We Oppose Commerce Group’s Lawsuit Against the People of El Salvador! In response to El Salvador’s rural grassroots movement to stop destructive gold mining in the departments of Cabanas and La Union, both Pacific Rim and Commerce Group are suing the government of El Salvador for $77 million and […]
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Phase One of the Commerce Group vs. the Government of El Salvador Hearings Complete On Monday, November 15th the Milwaukee based mining company Commerce Group and San Sebastian Mines Inc squared off against the government of El Salvador in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a part of the World Bank. The […]
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For the second time in the last three months members of the Center of Investigations into Investment and Commerce (CEICOM), an active member of the National Roundtable against Mineral Mining, have been kidnapped, robbed and left at an abandoned farm while traveling in Guatemala. In both instances the anti-mining activists were traveling to events in […]
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Sistering Successes · We brought 7 delegations from 7 committees, a total of 61 people, to El Salvador to learn and exchange ideas with their sistered communities. · We had 4 volunteers representing Sister Cities in El Salvador and one volunteer in the U.S. office · The New Jersey and San Isidro/Los Amates Sister City […]