...to describe the armed thugs driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes as businesses hunt for precious minerals. ARMED thugs are driving terrified families from their homes in Colombia as big businesses hunt for precious minerals, campaigners have warned.
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Joint urgent action request from Colombia Solidarity Campaign, London Mining Network and War on Want. London 6 November 2012
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Thousands of Colombians took to the streets of Ibagué, Tolima, yesterday to express their opposition to the proposed AngloGold Ashanti La Colosa gold mine. Here are some photos of the Fourth March/Carnival in Defence of Water and Life.
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On September 26, 2012 the Colombian National Police arrested Rober Daza Guevara, a leader of PASC partner group* CIMA (Committee for the Integration of the Colombian Massif), in the Department of Nariño.
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Author of the “Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy” & six other books, Engler has been dubbed “one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today” (Briarpatch), "Canada's version of Noam Chomsky" (Georgia Straight), “in the mould of I. F. Stone” (Globe and Mail). His books have been praised by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Rick Salutin, Maude Barlow and many others.
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USO DELEGATES DIDN'T RECEIVED THEIR VISAS ON TIME . Colombian work union delegates will be visiting Montreal: Project Accompaniment and Solidarity Colombia (PASC) invites you to meet three representatives of the worker's union (USO-Union sindical obrera) invited by the Canadian Union of Communication, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP). The delegates will be in Montreal to share their experience of the various struggles encountered against a Canadian oil company, Pacific Rubiales.
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Jhonel Cárdenas Castrillo is a communitarian leader, and the local president of the political party Polo Democrático Alternativo (Democratic Alternative Pole). He suffered an attempt of assassination last Friday, September 7th, at 6:30 pm. He was home when an armed individual fired at him. Fortunately Mr. Cárdenas wasn’t hit and was able to disarm the shooter who ran out of Mr.Cardenas’s house and escaped on a motorcycle which was driven by his accomplice. The police in the municipality of Curumani, hometown of Mr. Cárdenas, are now aware of this episode.
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It’s no secret that Canadian mining companies are fanned out around the world. Conflicts linked to large-scale mining projects have come to the fore as some of the most intense social and environmental struggles in this hemisphere and beyond. But well outside of the headlines, another industry, one that purports to link Indigenous people internationally in order to benefit from resource extraction, has slowly taken off.
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CED-INS (Corporación para el Desarrollo y la Investigación Popular – Instituto Nacional Sindical) have launched a newsletter Lands and Conflict: Extractive Industries in Colombia. This is in a context in which, over recent years, huge swathes of land have been handed over by the government to multinationals in the extractive industries sector.
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