[EF! Newswire note: the politics behind this story are tricky. We suggest reading more background on recent mining struggles to get a clearer picture of the context in which these protests have occurred.] Peruvian protests against government plans to regulate small-scale mining […]
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Reclaim The Fields Camp 2011, Romania
From September 21-30 the group Reclaim the Fields will meet in Rosia Montana, Romania for their third annual gathering. “Food, land, seed, water and indigenous knowledge are too important to be commodified or centralised in the well-known capitalist way. We resist the […]
Continue readingTurkish Villagers Fight to Keep Gold Mining, Cyanide Out of Sahinli
Residents of a northwestern Turkish district on Monday protested a mining company for its alleged practices of leaching gold out of rock with cyanide. Environmentalists and locals gathered in the Şahinli village of Lapseki district in front of the village teahouse, where […]
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