During this interactive webinar, we collectively reflected on the various forms mining resistance can take, how mining resistance functions in both Guatemala and in Canada, and our futures within mining resistance work. This webinar consisted of 4 guest speakers who gave updates on current mining resistance efforts [...]
In solidarity and celebration of the communities of Mataquescuintla and San Carlos Alzatate, celebrating their 11th and 9th anniversaries of municipal consultations of the Escobal mining project, property of the Canadian company Pan American Silver. Please read the letters of solidarity and recognition from international organizations and supporters below. La [...]
URGENT ACTION : GUATEMALA: State must immediately stop the excessive violence against defenders of the Maya Q'eqchi' people in peaceful resistance against the illegal nickel project in El Estor. After twenty days of peaceful resistance against the illegal mining of their ancestral territories and the Guatemalan State's failure to enforce [...]
The Caravan for Dignity, Community Resistance and the Freedom of Political Prisoners from Huehuetenango From April 6 to 9, 2016, human rights and land defenders from the community, municipal, departmental, national and international levels joined the Departmental Assembly of the People of Huehuetenango (ADH) and traveled to northern Huehuetenango to [...]
The kidnapping of Xinca indigenous leaders in Santa Rosa and opposition to Tahoe Resources' Escobal project reached Canadian world news this evening. You can hear the story starting at 06:52: http://podcast.cbc.ca/w6/worldatsix.mp3
