FPIF
Robin Broad, John Cavanagh
From West Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, tens of millions of people struggled through late winter storms that froze pipes, broke water mains, and cut off electricity. ...
... Monsignor José Elías Rauda, Bishop of the Diocese Of San Vicente, at a mass officiated in the church Santa Barbara, in Sensuntepeque, Cabañas. "Mining is not a matter of left or right but of life or death, ...
... without consulting the population first. “Life here would become very difficult, if mining projects were to happen”, Rodolfo says. Many families here live self-sufficiently off agriculture, some sell ...
... drying out little by little, and it seems clear that there is no protection measures to prevent floods in case of heavy rain, which is a latent danger to the nearby water sources and for all life existing ...
... Legislature begins to work to protect and promote the majority of Salvadorans who have been fighting for the defense of the environment and against mining projects," Morales said. "Our life is at stake ...
... eight months pregnant leaving behind six children. Still we are not afraid. We’re prepared to work to defend what we have achieved in life and to defend the continuity of life itself,” she said.
“I make ...
“Yes” to Life, “No” to Mining
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 / 10:09 am
By, Carlos Chita, Diario Co Latino Editorials
Translated by Jan Morrill
That Congress puts the Executive Branch’s political ...
... for Policy Studies)
“We call on the international community to join in the Salvadoran people’s fight to protect water, defend the environment and secure the right to life that is gravely threatened by ...
... cause for concern. But in El Salvador today, where torture and deadly prison conditions reign under the current state of exception, this quickly becomes a matter of life and death."
While allies of the ...
... of support on behalf of the Santa Marta community and ADES and support the demands of the organizations whose sole purpose is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life and the integral development ...
... and sentenced in the United States for drug trafficking. Honduras is a country where there are no constitutional or institutional guarantees for those of us who defend life. That is the product of the ...
... El Salvador has always been water, with the slogan "Yes to life, no to mining." It is widely recognized that El Salvador suffers from a water crisis of enormous proportions in terms of quantity, quality ...
... they reaffirmed their “rejection of the mining project as destructive and a threat to the life of the population and their natural commons.”
Almost seven years earlier to the day, on May 23, 2014, police ...
... to come. What nature worked on and harnessed to develop in millennia will be gone in 25 years (the lifetime of a “Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement” for mining projects in the Philippines). ...
... Resistance of La Puya (La Resistencia Pacifica La Puya) reaffirms its commitment to peaceful struggle in the defence of life, nature, and land.
We call on the population to be on guard against whatever ...
... the parties presented, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) added.”
Prensa Comunitaria notes: “[The Peaceful Resistance] reaffirms its commitment to peaceful struggle for the defense of life and natural ...
... that the expansion caused. Over forty families were uprooted and moved to a “Residential Unit” that adjoins the mine site, where the company exercises near complete control over daily life. On top of these ...
SPRING
Samantha Ponting
“I was born and lived more than half my life in Lepanto, the location of the Lepanto Consolidated mine,” said Chandu Claver, an Indigenous land defender, in a recorded presentation ...
... elected to participate in the consultation. This follows a January attempt on the life of community leader, Julio González, as well as death threats against community members.
Even though Pan American ...
... resources by extractive industries. They submitted five requests for public consultations and held demonstrations in front of city hall. They also erected a “Camp in Defence of Water and Life” to block ...