GEOFFREY YORK
JOHANNESBURG — Globe and Mail update (correction included)
Published Thursday, Sep. 22, 2016 5:27PM EDT
Last updated Monday, Sep. 26, 2016 4:50PM EDT

Tanzanian police have killed 65 people and injured 270 during years of sporadic clashes with villagers at a controversial Canadian-owned gold mine, according to evidence heard by a Tanzanian government inquiry.

It is two years today since the disappearance of 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teacher Training College in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico with no sign of their whereabouts, except for the remains of 19-year-old Alexander Mora Venancio.

(Ottawa/Oxford) For the first time, the Tanzanian Government has acknowledged the scale of violence surrounding the North Mara Gold Mine, say MiningWatch Canada and the British NGO Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) in their most recent field assessment, Adding Insult to Injury at the North Mara Mine (released today).[1] A Tanzanian Government investigation con

Goldman Prize winner Máxima Acuña de Chaupe reportedly attacked by mining company security guards

Thursday, September 15 @ 7:00pm @ Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St. W., Floor 2, Room 212

Organizers: International Human Rights Program of the University of Toronto (IHRP), MiningWatch Canada, Educators for Peace and Justice, and Union of People Affected by the Oil Operations of Texaco (now Chevron) (UDAPT)

Sponsored by: Latin American Studies of the University of Toronto (LAS)

(Kitiganik, Algonquin Territory/September 12, 2016) Last week our Chief and Council adopted the attached resolution opposing any mining activities (staking, exploration, development) within our ancestral (and current-use) Trilateral Agreement Territory and demanding the reinstatement of the mining moratorium, which had been in place since 2011.

Canadian environmental justice, labour, human rights, and First Nations groups blast Chevron and call for justice for Ecuadorians

(Toronto) Some of Canada’s largest environmental, labour and civil society organizations have now joined the growing international community demanding that Chevron clean up its toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon and cease selling its assets in Canada while a debt collection action proceeds to force the company to comply with its US $10 billion liability to the people of Ecuador.

The office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman found that the International Finance Corporation cannot guarantee that the Angostura mine will not have impacts on the environment.

(Bozeman, Montana/Ottawa, Ontario) Organizations in the south-central highlands of Ecuador are calling on authorities to declare high-altitude wetlands surrounding the country’s third largest city free of mining.

This workshop was held on August 11, 2016, as part of the World Social Forum in Montreal. It was jointly presented by Kairos and MiningWatch Canada.

Predatory extractivism — the exploitation of natural wealth for short-term profit without regard for its consequences — is being challenged ever more fiercely both intellectually and theoretically and on the ground. Indigenous and popular movements, writers and thinkers in different parts of the world use different approaches and strategies, but the fundamental struggle for ecological, climate, and social justice is the same.