... that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021).
Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade collaborating with the international solidarity movement supporting the Salvadorans’ fight against a proposed ...
Brent Patterson - RABBLE
Residents from the communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc -- an area known as La Puya -- have been fighting against the Progreso VII Derivada-El Tambor gold ...
P. Cabezas
Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
Francisco Coto - La Opinion
For 13 years, Vidalina Morales and other environmental activists, led constant fight against a Canadian/Australian mining company which threatened the north of El Salvador. ...
Telesur
An earlier proposal to block all metals mining in El Salvador has stagnated for years in Congress without being discussed.
The movement against destructive mining activity in El Salvador received ...
... to fight the project over concerns that the toxic chemicals used in gold mining would poison their water. In time, they won over a strong majority of the public and rallied the Catholic Church, small businesses, ...
TELESUR
For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale.
After El Salvador won a decade-long legal battle against mining company OceanaGold on ...
Deirdre Fulton - Common Dreams
A Salvadoran delegation is in Canada this week to warn of how investor provisions threaten democracy, public health, and environment
In a case illustrating the dangers ...
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.
By Robin Broad and John Cavanah
Published in http://www.thenation.com/article/177930/global-fight-against-corporate-rule?page=full# ...
An estimated ten thousand people hailing from different parts of the country marched through the streets of San Salvador today to demand that the Environment and Climate Change commission of the Legislative ...
Salvadoran Mining Fights Spark International Lawsuits
By Roger Bybee
Friday April 13, 2012 1:20 PM
Activists struggle against free-trade provisions, as USW challenges mining industry goals
Despite ...
by Maxwell Radwin on 2 August 2023 - MONGABAY
Calls from the international community are growing for the release of five environmental activists fighting water pollution and mining in El Salvador ...
... and Social Development Association (ADES), who was a key leader in the fight against mining for more than 12 years and had recently been sounding the alarm over Bukele’s attempts to re-open the door to ...
... The water defenders were part of a resistance group fighting the right-wing dictatorship during the war. But they come from Santa Marta, a community founded by displaced people largely considered to be ...
... (ADES) Santa Marta should remain detained.
"Among El Salvador's greatest heroes of this century are the brave water defenders, including several of those arrested last week, who led the 13-year fight ...
... contributed enormously to the development of the country, especially in environmental protection in areas such as the fight against metallic mining.
2. We are not opposed to investigating crimes committed ...
... there is a humanitarian crisis that is creating the notion that “everyone wants to leave this country”.
OFRANEH was born in the late seventies. At that time, OFRANEH concentrated its fight against the ...
PROSPECT
Sasha Chavkin
From tropical rain forests to drinkable water, a vast share of the planet’s essential environmental resources are found in developing countries. When growth-oriented governments ...
... the world, as an example that it was necessary to “suspend all ISDS cases on any issue against any government while fighting against Covid-19 crisis”, in order that states could focus their efforts on ...