A group of Mayan Mam villagers set fire to a pickup truck and an exploration drill rig earlier this month at the Marlin gold mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacan municipality, San Marcos, Guatemala. The mine is operated by Montana Exploradora de Guatemala, a subsidiary of Canada's Goldcorp Inc. According to Rights Action, Goldcorp had been [...]
Late last month, a group of demonstrators were violently arrested by police at a roadblock in the northern Panamanian province of Cocle. The roadblock was first set up on May 9, 2009 to resist the Petaquilla Gold mine project, which is owned by the Panama company Minera Petaquilla, and developed by two others: the Vancouver-based [...]
On the morning of May 6, 2009, a mass of federal and state police troopers brought a violent end to a community blockade near Canadian-owned Fortuna's Trinidad Silver Mine in the municipality of San Jose Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico. An urgent action alert issued by Comité de Defensa de Los Derechos del Pueblo (CODEP) describes how [...]
Thousands of indigenous people are mobilizing across the Peruvian Amazon in continued protest over a set of legislative decrees that undermine indigenous land rights and violate Peru's constitution as well as international law. Coordinated by the National Organization of the Amazon Indigenous people of Peru (AIDESEP), as many as 1,350 Indigenous communities are involved in [...]
On April 14, a group of Argentine government officials and employees of Barrick Gold Corporation, carried out a violent assault against Women at the Famatina mining camp in the province of La Rioja, where a road blockade has stood for the past two years. When the officials arrived, a group of Women from the "Self-Organized [...]
Yesterday, a group of Wiradjuri Traditional Owners and supporters entered Barrick Gold's mine site in Lake Cowal, New South Wales, to conduct a Smoking Ceremony and document the mine's impact on the region. "Wiradjuri cultural items and places have been damaged and destroyed including tens of thousands of stone artifacts, ancient ceremonial areas, marked trees, [...]
Thousands of local villagers in the Masbate province of the Philippines, are in their second week of protesting the "unwelcome and unsafe" presence of the Filminera Mining Corporation (FMC). Working in partnership with Australia/Canada-based company, Central Gold Asia (CGA), Filminera's open pit gold mine in Aroroy was scheduled to be fully operational on March 20th, [...]