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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
Interactive: Europe’s Extractive Frontiers
Image: Bjørnevatn mine, Norway. Photo: Svein Lund New research by the YLNM Network has revealed a spike in the number of mining projects and massive expansion of areas under concession for mining on the island of Ireland and in Sweden, Finland and...
Media Release: Communities expose stark realities of Lithium boom
On World E-mobility and Zero Emissions Day, a global network of communities directly impacted by lithium extraction have warned against drastically expanding mining in the name of green energy. Doing so risks trampling the rights of marginalised peoples and destroying ecosystems that play a vital role in regulating the global climate, they say.
YLNM Lithium Communique #1: On the Frontlines of Lithium Extraction
A communique from frontline communities exposing the true impacts of lithium mining and proposing alternatives to a metal-intensive renewable transition.
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...
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...
Día de Acción Global contra la Minería
Para conmemorar el día, Sí a la Vida No a la Minería/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 minería 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 países piden a la Unión Europea que abandone sus planes de la expansión masiva de la minería en el marco de los planes de la UE de un “Pacto Verde” (Green Deal) y “Recuperación Verde”.
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
