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On the YLNM blog we bring you the latest news from our global solidarity work. Here you can learn about the resistance work of YLNM members, take part in solidarity actions and catch up with our latest webinars, workshops and learning exchanges.
RECENT ARTICLES
Rhetoric vs Reality: New research from Europe’s extractive frontiers
Image: the ongoing occupation against Nussir in Riehppovuotna/Repparfjorden, Norway. Photo: Svein Lund New research has revealed a spike in the number of mining projects and massive expansion of areas under concession for mining on the island of...
International Lithium Group Stands with Peehee mu’huh / Thacker Pass Communities
For Immediate Release September 8, 2021 Contacts: John Hadder, Great Basin Resource Watch, 775-348-1986, john@gbrw.org Mirko Nikolić, YLNM-Lithium Group, mirkon@tuta.io Hannibal Rhoades, YLNM-Lithium Group / The Gaia Foundation,...
Webinar. Europe’s extractive frontiers: exposing mining expansion in Ireland and Fennoscandia
Two new research dispatches from the Yes to Life, No to Mining Network have revealed a massive expansion of areas under mining concession in the Island of Ireland and Fennoscandia in response to growing demands for minerals and metals. These two jurisdictions boast...
DÃa de Acción Global contra la MinerÃa
Para conmemorar el dÃa, Sà a la Vida No a la MinerÃa/Yes to Life No to Mining YLNM hace un llamamiento a todas las organizaciones miembro y aliadas para que coloquen simultáneamente pancartas en espacios comunales y las publiquen en Internet, afirmando que la nueva minerÃa destructiva a gran escala no es bienvenida en nuestras comunidades.
Global Day of Action against Mining
Yes to Life, No to Mining is calling on all members and allies to simultaneously join the Global Day of Action Against Mining by putting up banners in communal spaces and post them online, asserting that new, destructive, large-scale mining is not welcome in our communities.
Por su fuerte componente extractivo, +180 organizaciones rechazan el “Green Deal” de la UE
Una coalición mundial de más de 180 plataformas comunitarias, organizaciones de derechos humanos y medioambientales y académicos de 36 paÃses piden a la Unión Europea que abandone sus planes de la expansión masiva de la minerÃa en el marco de los planes de la UE de un “Pacto Verde” (Green Deal) y “Recuperación Verde”.
180+ Communities, Organisations and Academics Reject Extractive-heavy EU Green Deal
A global coalition of 180+ community platforms, human rights and environmental organisations and academics from 36 nations is calling on the EU to abandon its plans to massively expand dirty mining as part of EU Green Deal and Green Recovery plans.
EU Green Deal: Driving destructive mining / Impulsando la minerÃa destructiva / Encourager l’exploitation minière destructive
The 48 European members of the Yes to Life No to Mining network have prepared a common statement denouncing the EU’s plans for a Green Deal and Post-Covid recovery based on the expansion of destructive mining.
Alert: Military junta bombs Salween Peace Park in Indigenous Karen territory after coup d’état in Burma/Myanmar
YLNM has been working in solidarity with the Karen and Myanmar Mining Watch Network for several years to elevate and support their amazing work to protect the SPP from mining and mega hydro projects.
mines and communities latest headlines
Canada: Cameco evacuated Cigar Lake uranium mine due to wildfires (10/07/2021)
Malaysia: Federal Court orders news site to pay gold miner in defamation suit (06/07/2021)
India: Tribunal halts tree cutting in Madhya Pradesh’s Buxwaha amid protests (05/07/2021)
USA: Thousands displaced by lithium fire in Illinois (03/07/2021)
Rights groups seek probe into death of Indonesian official opposed to gold mine (03/07/2021)
Malaysia’s Som Forest: Home to tapirs and elephants or mining site for Pahang royals? (01/07/2021)
Australia: The battles for Tasmania’s Tarkine rainforest (29/06/2021)
UK’s National Health Service calls for ban on neodymium toys (28/06/2021)
India’s Deep Ocean Mission: A race to the bottom (27/06/2021)
Zambia: Court decision on Lower Zambezi copper project raise concerns (25/06/2021)
Absolute Zero: Every new climate pledge is to distract people from the failed ones it replaces (24/06/2021)
Solomon Islands Minister calls for (temporary) mining moratorium (23/06/2021)
If you want to keep up with mining resistance news more generally, we suggest you check out the Mines and Communities website and follow Yes to Life No to Mining on Twitter and Facebook
