Belém, Brazil – As governments and corporations rush to brand mining as part of the “green transition”, communities from across the globe are calling it what it is: extractivism, the same colonial system of exploitation repackaged in the language of climate action.
Belém, Brazil – As global movements converge in the Amazon for the 6th Rights of Nature Tribunal, Yes to Life, No to Mining (YLNM), a global solidarity network, is bringing together frontline defenders from across continents to assert a shared truth: the Earth is not property to be owned, but life to be respected.
YLNM event at the COP House, Belem do Pará
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Escucha nuestro podcast con la representación de comunidades y organizaciones ecológicas de distintas regiones que forman parte de Yes To the life No to mining
Listen to our podcast featuring representatives from communities and ecological organisations across different regions that are part of Yes to Life No to Mining
Gender and extractivism are intertwined in multiple and complex ways. In this YLNM position paper, we lay out these links and call for gender justice and the dismantling of patriarchy as central actions to anti-extractivism movements, and deeply necessary for post-extractive futures.