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		<title>WSF: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs</title>
		<link>http://www.sicsal-usa.org/2010/02/wsf-reconciling-social-and-environmental-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mario Osava SALVADOR, Brazil, Jan 31, 2010 (IPS) One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living “on the brink of survival”, while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment. This warning came from Brazilian Social Development Minister Patrus Ananias at the Thematic World Social Forum meeting held here in the capital of the northeastern state of Bahia. Meeting the basic needs of the one billion human beings suffering from hunger today will require the production of massive amounts of food and other goods, which will inevitably affect the environment, he noted. Ananias addressed the Forum on behalf of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was unable to attend under doctors’ orders after suffering a bout of high blood pressure on Wednesday. Close to 600 people filled the conference room of the Hotel Pestana on Salvador’s beachfront to hear government authorities and activists air their views in a discussion panel on “Dialogue and debate between social actors and Brazilian government representatives”. The panel was the key event at the Thematic World Social Forum meeting held in Bahia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice for the Assassinations in Cabanas, El Salvador: Letter to Pacific Rim Mining Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIGN-ON LETTER:  Justice for the assassinations in Cabañas, El Salvador, where the Pacific Rim mining company holds gold mining exploration concessions FROM:  CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), www.cispes.org SEND SIGN-ONS TO:  Meredith DeFrancesco: firmarcarta@yahoo.com Dear friends, We are sure that many of you heard about and were very concerned and outraged by the murders of Salvadoran anti-mining activists Ramiro Rivera and Felicita Echeverria (December 20, 2009) and Dora Alicia Sorto Rodriguez (December 26, 2009) and the continued threats against community journalists and activists in Cabañas, El Salvador, the region where Pacific Rim mining company holds gold mining exploration concessions. Pacific Rim is a Canadian company that is currently suing the government of El Salvador at the arbitration “court” of the World Bank for not granting them gold mining permits.  Community members and local organizations report that the presence of the company in the area has created an environment of violence and intimidation, and company &#8220;educators&#8221;, or promoters, have been linked to creating social tensions in the local communities. International Salvadoran organizations and international solidarity organizations are requesting organizations to sign on to the letter (below) condemning both the murders and shortfalls in the investigation, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Contamination from Mining Gets Worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Copae Last year, the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE), in the diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala, issued a report showing increased levels of arsenic in the water.around the Marlin mine. The difference between the data of October 2007, March 2008 and February 2009 is enormous. The range difference between what is established and what was found is fairly wide. This may cause serious diseases in the people living close to the Marlin mine. Arsenic related effects in human beings are bladder, lung, skin, kidney, nose, liver and prostate cancer; in animals it increases the mortality and reduces the fertility, increases spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) and damage the red corpuscles. Pictures showing people who have drunk contaminated water with arsenic give an idea of the great danger of drinking this kind of contaminated water. COPAE, the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology, accompanies the people from San Marcos, Guatemala, who are being harmed by the natural resources exploitation policies promoted by the Guatemalan State through concessions and licenses given to transnational mining and hydro-electric dam companies   Things Get Uglier   By Magalí Rey Rosa, Prensa Libre   Things got ugly for Goldcorp after it was withdrawn in April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Are All Crisantas&#8221;: Trial of the Goldcorps 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Francois Guindon Rights Action   On September 7th, 2009, some 600 indigenous campesinos from San Miguel Ixtahuacán and other municipalities came to the city of San Marcos to denounce the lack of impartiality in the national judicial system and to denounce the use of the legal system as a strategy of &#8220;criminalization of the struggle for human rights&#8221; by Montana Exploradora (subsidiary 100% owned by the Canada&#8217;s Goldcorp Inc.) Early on September 7, 100s of Mayan Mam villagers marched through San Marcos to the beat of marimba music. The theme of the day was solidarity with Gregoria Crisanta Perez Bámaca: &#8220;Todas y todos somos Crisanta&#8221; (&#8220;We are all Crisantas&#8221;). Crisanta Perez is part of the &#8220;Goldcorp 5&#8243; whose trial is supposed to begin today.  Crisanta Perez also has other charges pending against her for her participation in previous activities in defense of human and indigenous rights that are being violated by Goldcorp&#8217;s open-pit, cyanide-leach mine. Using the legal system to lay frivolous or fraudulent charges against community leaders (&#8220;criminalization for the struggle for human rights&#8221;) is a common tool of repression, used to weaken opposition to its mine. Marching into the Central Park of San Marcos, the demonstrators arrived as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Mining Movement Wins Human Rights Award</title>
		<link>http://www.sicsal-usa.org/2009/10/anti-mining-movement-wins-human-rights-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Claudia Rodríguez-Alas SHARE Foundation   The SHARE Foundation congratulates the National Working Group against Mining in El Salvador for winning the 2009 Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Human Rights Award. The award is sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in memory of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Letelier and Moffitt were killed 1976 by a bomb placed under Letelier&#8217;s car in Washington DC. Since 1997, IPS has granted a domestic and an international award to honor &#8220;these fallen colleagues while celebrating new heroes of the human rights movement from the United States and elsewhere in the Americas.&#8221;  This year the National Working Group against Mining in El Salvador, one of SHARE Foundation&#8217;s partners and grantees, was chosen for the international award.  The working group, known in Spanish as &#8220;La Mesa,&#8221; is a coalition of eleven grassroots organizations in El Salvador.  According to Joseph Eldridge, American University&#8217;s chaplain and a member of the award selection committee, La Mesa was chosen for their &#8220;courage in struggling against huge odds to press El Salvador to become the first country in the world to ban gold mining: a victory for rural communities and for the environment.&#8221;  The award ceremony will be on Thursday, October 15, [...]]]></description>
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