On the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, local authorities of the Zapotec town of Magdalena Ocotlán, in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, held a town hall session to prohibit all forms of mining in their territory.
After nearly 20 years of wrangling, a group of Nahua Indian villagers could make legal history in Mexico this month when a court rules on a land dispute involving a Canadian miner.
We received the open letter below. In Siberia, hard coal is being mined under catastrophic conditions and villages of the remaining indigenous people are being destroyed.
For second time this week, protesters have closed the entrance to the planned Kaapelinkulma gold mine in Valkeakoski, Finland.
In Pirkanmaa, Finland, people who are concerned about Dragon Mining’s environmental impacts are taking action again.
In Valkeakoski, Finland, protesters closed the access to the mine by locking themselves on the road on early morning January 2nd 2019.
THESSALONIKI — A Greek court on Friday (November 30) acquitted 21 people accused of raiding prospective gold mining facilities that some see as a welcome foreign investment but many local residents strongly oppose on environmental grounds.
About 40 masked people attacked the facilities at Skouries in the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece in February 2013. They allegedly assaulted security guards and set fire to machinery and offices.
The court in the northern city of Thessaloniki found there wasn’t sufficient evidence to convict the defendants, all of whom had denied any wrongdoing.
This article seeks to connect the dots between the Central American refugees in crisis along the US/Mexico border to the everyday struggles for survival of Diné people, specifically the Indigenous communities in Big Mountain or Black Mesa in so-called Arizona.
As the public comment period closes today on a new management plan for the severely-reduced Bears Ears National Monument, Western Watersheds Project has submitted comments seeking to limit the damage from livestock grazing, mining, oil and gas development, and other activities that threaten the fragile desert ecosystems and irreplaceable cultural sites across this spectacular landscape.
Court says extraction ban is among cases it refuses to review, in victory for environmental groups and Native American communities.