1. Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1983
   Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
2. The Big Nickel
   Inco at home and abroad
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1977
   An account of the economic power of the world's largest producer of nickel, how it operates in Canada and the Third World, and its human consequences. The Big Nickel also looks at the resistance to the corporation, and the union-busting, attacks by company goons, and successful organizing drives.
3. Blasted in a West Virginia Mine
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Conditions in the mines are caused by capitalism. The 25 dead miners in the latest mine disaster in West Virginia are dead because union-busting and the disregard of safety precautions for the sake of speed-up and higher profits.
4. Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
5. Building resistance to Canada's destructive mining industry
   Review of Joan Kuyek's book Unearthing Justice
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   In her book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations.
6. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
   A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2016
   An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
7. Canadian Mining Corporation Receives Permits in Mexican Indigenous Territory
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Canadian mining companies have found a way to expand their operations in Mexico. Recently the Mexican government awarded 22 permits to British Columbia-based First Majestic Silver to mine for silver in the western region of the country.
8. Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
9. Canadian News Synthesis Project - February 1976
   Volume III Number 12
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
10. Canadian News Synthesis Project - November 1976
    Volume IV Number 8
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
11. Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
    Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
12. Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
13. Chile Report
    Enterprise and Repression Multinational Goes to Chile
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Looks at Noranda Mines' copper mine investment in Chile.
14. Citizens Protest Lack of Consultation about Canadian Mine in San Jose del Progresso
    Popular Forces Occupy City Hall and Threaten to Incinerate Hostages
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Inhabitants of San José del Progresso, in the district of Ocotlán, affiliated with the Assembly of People United for the Valley of Ocotlán in Defense of Nature and Popular Autonomy, and opposed to the operation of the Canadian owned mine La Trinidad, escalated their battle with the assistance of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, the APPO.
15. Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
16. Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2022
    
17. Commemorating France's Worst Mining Tragedy: 1099 Workers Perished to Profit the Bosses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    A mining catastrophe in northern France on March 10, 1906, is remembered with a number of commemorative ceremonies.
18. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
    Economic Writings 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
19. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
20. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
21. Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
22. The Devil Operation 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
23. The Earth Grabbers
    Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Climate justice means that the Minerals-Energy Complex will have to take the same course as apartheid.
24. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
    
25. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
26. Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike which led to the murder of three miners by the RCMP.
27. False Promises 
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
28. Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
29. Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
30. Harlan County USA 
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1976
    An effort of 180 coal miners and their wives to strike for benefits at the Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.
31. In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
32. In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
33. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
34. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
35. The March on Blair Mountain
    A Historic Day in West Virginia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The coal industry is an industry which has admitted it can not make a profit without breaking laws.
36. Miners and Steelworkers
    Labour in Cape Breton
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    
37. Minewar.org
    Resource Type: Website
    Documenting the 1930's Illinois mine war.
38. Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
39. Mining Peru
    Canada's New Territory?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
40. Mountain Justice 
    Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    In recent years, local people fighting against Mountaintop Removal's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. This on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots effort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a fascinating account of why building solidarity across geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such struggles is so important but so hard.
41. Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
42. The murder of the Mon Valley
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Only the combined struggle of the international working class can overcome the tyranny of capital and transform the world into a place fit for human beings. This must be our goal. Otherwise the murderer of the Mon Valley may become the murderer of humankind.
43. A New Age Of People Power: Lessons From The Dongria Kondh
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    With greater power to build alliances across boundaries, the Davids of the world are having more success throwing off the Goliaths.
44. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
45. On a Cross of Coal
    How Massey Crucified Miners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Federal investigators investigated the Massey mine disaster in which 29 miners died discovered that Massey Energy was keeping two sets of books (safety logs). One log reflected actual mine conditions, which, alas, were demonstrably unsafe, and the other log was a fictionalized showpiece, a veritable Potemkin village, used to mislead government safety inspectors.
46. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
47. People power: how Montana stopped the biggest coal mine in North America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America's largest open pit coal mine. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
48. Price of Gold
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
49. Project Chile
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    The pamphlet serves as background material for Project Chile, a national campaign to stop Canadian private investment in Chile and all governmental support for such investment until human rights and democratic institutions are restored.
50. Report Confirms Gang Rapes at Canadian-Controlled PNG Mine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    One of the world's largest mining organisations, Barrick Gold, is in damage control this week following the release of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report outlining longstanding incidents of sexual and physical violence at the company's Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine in Papua New Guinea.
51. Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
52. Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
53. Scargill, Arthur
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
54. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - October 1977
    Volume V Number 8
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
55. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
    Volume VI Number 9
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
    December 1978 issue.
56. Third World Minerals and Global Pricing
    A New Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This study examines the distribution of the enormous wealth inherent in the Third World's mineral resources. Dr. Nwoke criticizes the bargaining model usually used to explain relations between global corporations and Third World governments. Instead, he develops the theory of ground rent to argue that today's mineral crisis lies in the struggle between Western mining companies and the Third World over which side can appropriate the most "rent" from international mining.
57. An Unauthorized Biography of the World 
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
58. Upper Big Branch Mine and the Race to the Bottom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Without union representation, workers are afraid to report unsafe conditions because they will be fired. Without union representation to pressure coal companies, politicians, and federal regulators, the American coal industry is in a race to the bottom as it enforces third world labor standards and economic and safety conditions on its workers.
59. Waihi miners' strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi.
60. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
61. Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.

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