This statement from the Colombian Network Against Large Scale Transnational Mining, RECLAME, follows Greystar Resources's decision to withdraw its request for an environmental permit for its Angostura project in the Colombian páramos of Santurbán.
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The Chocó has some of the richest land in Colombia. There is an abundance of water, minerals, and biodiversity. This has also meant significant potential for agricultural businesses. Since 1996, three thousand Afro-descendents and mixed race persons from the Curbaradó and Jiguamiandó River Basins have been displaced by paramilitary groups. About 10 years after being forcibly displaced, these people returned to their land. However, by then, the land was in the hands of others. In order to resist, they established humanitarian zones.
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Social mobilization and a growing awareness of the environmental effects of Greystar’s proposed mine in Santurbán --including the contamination of water that supplies some of the inhabitants of Santander and feeds the Lebrija, Pamplonita and Zulia rivers and the tributaries of the Arauca and Catatumbo rivers--have contributed to the temporary withdrawal of the multinational from Colombia.
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Our solidarity is stronger than their repression! The G20 Legal Defence Fund in Quebec continues to raise money in support of all people facing charges in relation to the anti-G20 protests in Toronto in June 2010. The Fund considers that all arrests occurred in the context of a legitimate struggle against the capitalist policies of the G20, and that all charges should be dropped immediately. The G20 Legal Defence fund is managed by a group of six local anti-capitalist community organizers who are not facing legal charges themselves, and will ensure that legal fund
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A collective documentary made in Choco in 2004 by PASC members. Palm empire - state crimes in Colombia
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Second bad-faith invasion and occupation of collective properties, intense paramilitary presence, and steps taken to repopulate in new areas of Curvaradó collective territory. The following is our most recent Historical Documentation and Ethical Censure to continued controlling paramilitary operations amidst Brigade Seventeen, between Brisas, Curvaradó and Ríosucio. Pressures and intimidations by regular soldiers against Guillermo Díaz, a member of the Lower Council of Llano Rico, and an inhabitant of the Humanitarian Zone Argenito Díaz.
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Citizens and international organisations filed a lawsuit at the Belgian Courthouse to start a criminal investigation against the illegal espionage carried out in Belgium by the colombian secret service during Álvaro Uribe Vélez government.. http://www.telebraille.tv/
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Colombia, South America, is a poor country with a history of violence and political instability but also is a very rich land, full of good and hopeful people.
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Letter blasts Harper government for killing Bill C-300, a law that would have held Canadian mining companies accountable for human rights and environmental abuses abroad.
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