Campaigns
Campaigns
"The fire that burned in the Comayagua prison is the third deadly fire inside a prison in Honduras in the last 9 years. In 2004, 107 people were killed in a prison fire in San Pedro Sula and on April 5, 2003, 69 prisoners were killed in El Porvenir prison in the northern city, La Ceiba."
BBC report about massive fire in Honduran jail that kills 300 inmates
It's been almost three years since hundreds of Zapotec community members took direct action to temporarily shut down Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver's gold and silver mine just south of Oaxaca City, Mexico. The blockade ended with a massive police raid, during which demonstrators were beaten and 23 people were taken by police and jailed, some for up to three months.
Articles collected and forwarded by www.miningwatch.ca, concerning repression in Argentina, near the Alumbrera mine, in benefit of the mine owners: Xstrata Copper, Goldcorp Inc. and Yamana Gold Inc.
25 minute Al Jazeera doc-film. Argentinians are used to hitting the streets to start revolutions, fight for their rights or overthrow governments. But now people are taking to the streets to protect the country's valuable water sources up in the Andean mountains from multinational mining companies. This film is made from within the anti-mining activist movement and will follow three teachers that have defeated a Canadian mining company [Barrick gold] and are now mounting a campaign against a Chinese one.
