Amazon Diary 1: Everything that no-one wants
This is the first of three Letters from the Amazon, written in recent weeks by LAB collaborator Dan Baron Cohen. Further letters will be...
Amazon Diary 3: Create a horizon of good living
This is the Dan Baron Cohen's third letter from the Amazon. Further letters will be published in the next few months. You can see...
El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say...
Brazil: aluminium company owns up to spill
Norsk Hydro’s Alunorte aluminum refining facility in Barcarena municipality, Pará state, has been accused by Brazilian authorities of contaminating the local waters of...
Brazil: mines mean murder (again)
Local leaders in Barcarena, Pará are in fear for their lives, following the murder on Monday 12 March of one of their leaders, 47...
Guatemala: indigenous women take on Canada’s mining industry
This article was re-published from Ricochet by UpsideDownWorld. You can see the original here.
Header image:(L-R): Amalia Cac Tiul, Elena Choc Quib, Carmelina Caal Ical,...
The Ghosts of Elections-LAB Newsletter 21 December 2017
20 December 2017
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The ghosts of elections past, present and future
Across the world, polls this year have been confounded as...
Argentina: top glacier scientist charged over cyanide spill
Argentina has filed indictments against Ricardo Villalba, former Director of the Argentinean Institute of Snow, Ice, and Environmental Research (IANIGLA), and three former...
After the Flood: Two years on from the Fundão tailings dam...
LAB's Tom Gatehouse talks to Rodrigo Péret from the Churches and Mining Network and Thiago Alves da Silva from the Movement of People Affected...
LAB Newsletter September 2017: Brazil, Voices of Latin America, Mining
23 September 2017
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
Apologies for the long hiatus since our last newsletter. We'll try to make them more regular in future.
Brazil
We’ve...