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1. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, ...; Created on 14 January 2021
2. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... to cutting costs, this is presumably part of the company’s strategy to pressure the community to cease their strike. Late last week, the community agreed to lift its encampment to advance talks, but ...; Created on 28 November 2020
3. U.S. TRADE DEALS MINE GREED NOT GOLD: (FTAs & ISDS); U.S. TRADE DEALS MINE GREED NOT GOLD By Dominique Paul Noth Editor, Labor Press Posted June 8, 2012 Wisconsin’s myriad issues with businesses controlling mining legislation may not yet make the ...; Created on 08 June 2012
4. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Dreams. Cavanagh, who co-authored with Robin Broad The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed, stressed that Bukele "is desperate for revenues" because he "has so mismanaged ...; Created on 20 January 2023
5. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... joint statement in October 2020 with the Ministry of Energy and Mines – the authority responsible for the consultation process – officials agreed to inform Pan American Silver that the Xinka consider the ...; Created on 12 May 2021
6. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that came to be known as La Mesa. This essay is adapted from Robin Broad and John Cavanagh’s The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Corporate Greed. During those years, Marcelo ...; Created on 05 April 2021
7. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... in the early 2030s. Haile had agreed to post a $10 million cash bond before the mine opened in 2017, but expanding the gold mine will increase environmental risks — and more cash better ensures taxpayers ...; Created on 30 March 2021
8. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Saved A Country from Corporate Greed." TRANSCRIPT: Marco Werman: This is a story about gold and water and activism. El Salvador is dangerously close to running out of clean water. Its rivers have ...; Created on 22 March 2021
9. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for the Socioeconomic Development of El Salvador – ADES, stated that “11 years after the brutal assassinations, motivated by the greed of a mining company and covered up by state impunity, we still demand ...; Created on 15 July 2020
10. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of the General water Law. The proposal contains of three elements: The articles approved by the Committee on the Environment and Climate Change between 2013 and 2015; A modified and widely agreed-upon ...; Created on 20 April 2020
11. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... open town hall as a small achievement, and the agreement whereby Tocoa was declared free of mining, as a new step in the fighting process. Flores agreed with Adilia Castro that there was a lack of respect ...; Created on 26 December 2019
12. Oceanagold’s wealth is misery for Kasibu farmers: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); “We could say that Oceanagold really crippled our livelihood.” By John Aaron Mark Makaraeg : BULALAT KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya — Ernesto Palpag, 50 years old, used to harvest about 40 sacks of rice ...; Created on 16 September 2019
13. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... Ignoring Consistent Pleas to Comply with the Rule of Law The most recent Supreme Court’s ruling upholds a July 2015 ruling by a Court of Appeals judge, who agreed with the members of the peaceful resistance ...; Created on 27 August 2018
14. Latin American Women Weaving Territories: (Media Releases); ... and El Salvador. As women participating in this effort, we have confirmed that in our countries the extractivist logic is seriously threatening our territories and populations. The greed of corporations ...; Created on 01 February 2018
15. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); By Jen Moore : MiningWatch Canada Latin America is slowly winning the fight against the corporate assault of transnational Canadian mining companies El Salvador made history last month when it became the ...; Created on 26 June 2017
16. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... groups and organizations gathered under the unifying cry of “No to mining, yes to life” to stage protests, hold events, and carry on the momentum. Creating Activists in Cinquera Arely Cartagena agreed ...; Created on 26 June 2017
17. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of these was with the US State Department. In the early stages of the ISDS case, after some pressure from the law firm representing El Salvador and civil society groups, the State Department agreed to ...; Created on 23 June 2017
18. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... achieve justice for those communities and organizations affected by the pollution and corporate greed of OceanaGold. “It is our right to determine our own development, companies cannot come and extort ...; Created on 10 November 2016
19. MUA calls on Australians to support campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to sue El Salvador because a previous government in that country agreed to Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) legislation. “The legal framework that has been created favours investors and violates ...; Created on 28 September 2016
20. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... American University Jose Simeon Cañas -UCA- where over 73% of people agreed that the government should ban metal mining in the country. IV. That the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church, and particularly ...; Created on 26 September 2016

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