Mining: Extracting the Future

Publisher:  The Peak Magazine
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Pamphlet
Cx Number:  CX23025

A publication on the negative impact of the mining industry on local communities and the environment. Articles include a look at the opening of Canada's North to industry, mining exploitation in Peru and targeted assassinations in Mesoamerica, Indigenous Water Defence, and the efforts of mining companies to excerpt influence and undermine accountability.

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The impunity surrounding Canadian mining corporations around the world enables them to use violent tactics to force their mines into communities. Tragedies such as targeted assassinations against anti-mining leaders are not uncommon in places like Mesoamerica, but these attempts to stifle resistance often backfire, bringing attention to communities standing strongly against their own exploitation.

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Table of Contents:

The Peak Mining: Extracting the Future Volume 54 Issue 2 Spring 2015\
Introduction: The Peak Collective
Call-out for Mining Justice: OPIRG Guelph
Mining Extracting the Future:
University Wakeup Call: Petition Demands Closure of Mining Institute: stop the institute
A Place of "Mined": The contradictions of UBC's Sustainability Discourse by Michelle Perez, Manuela Duque, Noor Attar, Mike Wilgosh & Martin Reyes
Gold Mining info Graphic by Protest Barrick
Undermining Accountability: Mining Companies maneuver to Ensure Impunity and Support by Sakura Saunders
The Ring of Fire: Opening the north to industrial development by Abby Maynes
Complicity & Impunity: An interview with mining watch Canada by Mandy Hiscocks
For the Water, For Future Generations by Alex Hundert
Barrick Gold: More than just a bad apple by Merle Davis
What Makes a Mining Conflict by Dawn Paley
A Community's Struggle Continues in Pichanaki, Peru by Joseph Czikk
Targeted Assassinations in Mesoamerica: Repression and Resistance by Dawn Paley & Sakura Saunders
News From the Front Lines
Spring News Briefs: The Peak Collective
RCMP Report Leaked by Sakura Saunders
Aggregates and Southern Ontario: The Peak Collective
Arts & Culture:
Octavia's Brood: Visionary Fiction from Grassroots by Danielle Gehi
Reviews:
Zine Reviews by e.war
Mining Justice Resources by The Peak Collective