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![]() Mining: Extracting the Future
Holland, Amber; Gehl, Danielle; Parker, Alison, Eds.
Publisher: The Peak MagazineYear 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. Abstract: Excerpt: 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. - 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 |