Photo: CCDA Press Conference on August 13, 2020, calling for the immediate distribution of Congressional funds for small family farming (Credit: CCDA) In our last update at the end of June we provided a broad summary of the first one hundred days since the onset of COVID-19 in Guatemala. We [...]
Summer got off to a great start with the BTS AGM in late June. This year our invited guest was Franklin Valenzuela from the Mataquescuintla, Jalapa youth organization JODVID (Youth Organized in Defense of Life). From June 18- 26, Franklin traveled and met with numerous solidarity, university and civil society [...]
[twitter style="horizontal" source="bts_mg" hashtag="#MMIW" text="End Violence in Canada and Abroad! All Women Deserve Justice!" float="left"] [fbshare type="button"] En Espanol Sign the letter! The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 Fax: 613-941-6900 CC: The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, [...]
[button link="http://www.breakingthesilenceblog.com/general/bts-mining-calendar-of-events/" window="yes"]Calendar of Events[/button] [button link="http://www.breakingthesilenceblog.com/general/resources-and-articles/" window="yes"]Articles & Resources[/button] [button link="http://www.breakingthesilenceblog.com/general/take-action/"]Take Action![/button] For the past ten years, BTS has heard from Guatemala partners about the impacts that Canadian mining companies have had on their communities. We’ve heard about water sources drying up, contamination of water, land and air; we’ve [...]
http://www.ccic.ca/_files/en/working_groups/2015_04_21_Letter_Minister_Nicholson_renewal_CICIG.pdf See Plaza Publica article (in Spanish) about the continuation of CICIG here. Guatemalans outside of the Presidential Palace asking for the CICIG mandate to be renewed. Photo: Plaza Publica
http://eiti.org/news/guatemala-recognised-eiti-compliant Guatemala recognised as 'EITI Compliant' Wednesday, 19 March 2014 - 7:53pm Compliant country Vice President reaffirms its commitment to transparency. Guatemala was found to be EITI Compliant by the international EITI Board on 19 March 2014. The EITI Board, chaired by Clare Short, congratulated the Government of Guatemala for [...]
Articles and Urgent Actions for February 2014 Atlantic Region Solidarity Network Canada: Mining.com Cecilia Jamasmie - Money laundering, terrorism financing diamond trade in India, Israel, Belgium, Canada and the US - report Tz Daily News - Barrick Gold spends half of its revenue on taxes CBC News: 7 [...]
Atlantic Region Solidarity Network ARSN updates for January 2014 – sign on letters and articles of interest Canada: Guile, Ambiguity and the Cult of Mediocrity (McLeod Group): Canadian Council for International Cooperation: Act Now: Protect vital, life-saving aid programs Petition: Commercial motives driving Canada’s foreign aid, documents reveal [...]
Originally published in Now Toronto: http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=196486 By Rachel Warden Tanis Desjarlais, participant in the study tour. “What happened to Canadian compassion, to the Canada that accepted so many refugees in the 80s?” Nelly Rivera, from the Emmanuel Baptist Church in El Salvador, asked this question after telling us [...]
Originally posted in the PEI Guardian by Mary MacKay on December 28, 2013. http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Living/2013-12-28/article-3557948/Breaking-Silence-Network-marks-25-years-of-solidarity-with-Guatemala/1 Breaking Silence Network marks 25 years of solidarity with Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network founder Kathryn Anderson, left, and Sr. Maudilia Lopez were on P.E.I. recently to educate people about the effects of a Canadian [...]
