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1. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Claire Provost and Matt Kennard - The Guardian Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders ...; Created on 11 July 2015
2. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... World Bank in the spotlight. This campaign recruited allies including the AFL-CIO and Teamsters, earned coverage in leading U.S. media outlets, and convened a rally in Washington, D.C., outside the tribunal’s ...; Created on 23 April 2021
3. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... They froze without showers, toilets, or washing machines — let alone drinking water — for days or even weeks. The irony that Texas, the state built on fossil fuels, was completely unprepared for extreme ...; Created on 28 March 2021
4. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... of Tocoa. The plant, which will melt iron with carbon or coke to form compound pellets -- part of the steelmaking process -- is 99.6% owned by Inversiones Ecotek S.A. de C.V., a company created in 2017 ...; Created on 28 November 2020
5. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... and increasingly of household appliances", Canoero highlights. Computers, digital televisions, tablets, and smartphones have a large number of electromagnetic conductors, and gold is the best electrical ...; Created on 09 August 2020
6. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... which extends though the Colon, Olancho and Atlantida departments. Criminalization as a response to dissent In October 2018, residents and alternative news outlets reported the deployment of ...; Created on 24 October 2019
7. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... printed in posters and widely distributed pamphlets in October 2018, calling them “allies” of communist rebels and telling the public to “be careful of these groups.” Most of those named were farmers and ...; Created on 04 October 2019
8. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... El Salvador (UES), environmental groups, and labor unions have filled the streets of San Salvador. Protestors have taken over highways and airwaves of public and mainstream news outlets. The recurring ...; Created on 24 August 2018
9. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... reject the accusations from parties and media outlets at the service of the oligarchy, that we are terrorists, FMLN-linked groups that are launching a smoke screen in the face of government corruption. ...; Created on 25 June 2018
10. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... in recent years, at least 127 environmentalists have been killed, including Berta Cáceres. She was riddled by bullets on Mar. 3, 2016, for her fierce opposition to the construction of the Agua Zarca ...; Created on 09 May 2018
11. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... El Salvador, including politicians, to take a position on the issue. According to Saul Baños “a lot of local media outlets are co-opted in the service of local elites…the case was getting more attention ...; Created on 23 June 2017
12. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Congress "several booklets with thousands of signatures collected, in support of the bill to prohibit mining in El Salvador," according to the Catholic Office. In late February, residents of the municipality ...; Created on 09 March 2017
13. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... a coup de grace to the environmental crisis, said Omar Serrano, academic vice-dean of the Central American University José Simeón Cañas, and part of the collective Lets Care for Everyone´s House. Serrano ...; Created on 05 January 2017
14. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... to an old mine and even mines located in Nicaragua, medical campaigns, and the publication of paid communiques in mass media outlets where they disseminate false information and continue to lie to the ...; Created on 04 January 2017
15. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of OceanaGold: even during the exploration stage, their operations ‘eased out’ community opposition through the torching of hundreds of homes, the strafing of barricaders with bullets, and ultimately through ...; Created on 26 September 2016
16. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... organizer who over the years has gained notoriety for his opposition to the El Dorado Mining Project. His 12 year old daughter, Maria Eugenia Guevara, was injured by 28 shotgun pellets during the same ...; Created on 30 December 2014
17. Current political transition crucial for advancing democratic reform and economic, environmental and social development in El Salvador.: (Media Releases); ... sustainability are possible if we ban metal mining on time. The high price of gold feeds the voracious power appetite of large transnational mining corporations, but LETS NOT FORGET that money can not ...; Created on 14 April 2014
18. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); By Robin Oisín Llewellyn First published in http://mondediplo.com/blogs/el-salvador-violence-and-impunity The bullets buried into the walls of the room within a foot of their intended victim, in El ...; Created on 13 February 2014
19. Mining multinationals exploit Central America: (Water no Gold); ... and was robbed, and a male comrade was fired at four times, but fortunately none of the bullets struck him.” Vidalina’s direct predecessor within the campaign was one of the people assassinated. Marcelo ...; Created on 03 December 2013

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