El Salvador’s battle to protect its water by becoming the first country to ban metal mining could have a wide-ranging resonance No drying up … with their water supply threatened, Salvadorans are hitting back at mining companies such as Pacific Rim.●●●

Vale continues persecuting and criminalizing Mozambican social activists In mid April, 2013, artisanal brickmakers of Moatize, Mozambique, affected by the largest open-pit coal mine of multinational company Vale were violently repressed during a demonstration. As a response to this situation,●●●

Delegation protest at the site of Pacific Rim mine in Cabanas, El Salvador. Photo by Ron Carver. Robin is standing in front of a church in Guatemala with some of the other members of the first international delegation on “gold mining and●●●