The Costa Rican Supreme Court has overturned a ruling that blocked construction of the country’s first major gold mine, declaring open-pit mining consistent with environmental law.
Costa Rican law previously banned open-pit mining, but outgoing president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Oscar Arias overturned the ban upon taking office. He has declared the mine in question, Crucitas, [...]

From IntercontinentalCry.org:

“With the Global People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth set to begin in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a group of Indigenous people have occupied the offices of a mining firm in the southeastern province of Potosi near the Chilean border.
“The occupation began several days ago, on April 12, with roughly [...]

Flier available here. FMI, www.StopLatMining.info.
Let’s bury the 2010 Lat-Am Mining Congress in Miami!
PROTEST: April 29, 3pm in Coral Gables at the Westin Colonnade, 180 Aragon Ave.
Representatives of a variety of ore-mining multinational companies, international development banks, other investors and ministers of mining who week to promote and expand this devastating industry will be meeting in [...]

A few more actions from the Minga:
Another anti-mines banner, this one reading  “No New Mines on Apache Land! Ya Basta!” was hung in Tucson, AZ on October 16 (this time from the  “Snake Bridge” over Broadway Boulevard). It was in opposition to the proposed mine in Superior, Arizona on sacred Apache land.
Also in Tucson, activists [...]

More actions from the Minga (Global Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples):
Phoenix, AZ — The week was kicked off with a protest at Arizona State University against the recognition of “Columbus Day,” along with education about the true  (genocidal) nature of Columbus. The rest of the week consists of a media initiative [...]

October 12 (the 517th anniversary of Columbus’ landing in the Western Hemisphere) marked the first day of the Global “Minga”/Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples, called by the IV Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples Abya Yala. Rallies, protests and other actions are being carried out around the world in response to the [...]

The Earth Liberation front has claimed responsibility for vandalizing the Chapel Hill, North Carolina home of Steve Jones, a board member of Bank of America.
Bank of America is a major funder of mountaintop removal coal mining, in spite of its December announcement that it would “phase out” funding many such projects.
In a communique reported by [...]

The Salvadoran anti-mines activist who we reported missing in late June is confirmed to have been tortured and murdered.
Community leader and activist Marcelo Rivera vanished from his community of San Isidro on June 18. On July 1, his body was found inside a dry well, with his belongings in an abandoned house nearby. DNA tests [...]

A couple of articles reminding us how our struggles can make a real difference for the big picture:
1. Check out this article analyzing some of the connections between the push for expanded liquefied natural gas infrastructure in the United States and the recent massacre of indigenous protesters in Peru. The writer points out how increased [...]

Boston Rising Tide activists dropped a 25-foot banner from the city’s Environmental Protection Agency on June 29, reading, “Mountain Top Removal Kills Communities: EPA No New Permits. MountainJustice.org.”
There are more than 150 permits pending for new mountaintop removal coal mines in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky.