fight against mining – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png fight against mining – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/how-local-grassroots-organizing-drove-el-salvadors-mining-ban/ Sat, 29 Jul 2017 14:49:19 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/how-local-grassroots-organizing-drove-el-salvadors-mining-ban/ by Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont

Amid a natural gas boom, could U.S. activists ever dream of a national ban on fracking? If it seems impossible, they should look to the south for inspiration. On March 29, the small Central American nation of El Salvador passed a total ban on metal mining. The historic vote on the law was unanimous, bridging strong partisan divides, and was the culmination of more than a decade of activism, coalition building, and direct political participation by the people of El Salvador.]]> by Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont

Amid a natural gas boom, could U.S. activists ever dream of a national ban on fracking? If it seems impossible, they should look to the south for inspiration.

On March 29, the small Central American nation of El Salvador passed a total ban on metal mining. The historic vote on the law was unanimous, bridging strong partisan divides, and was the culmination of more than a decade of activism, coalition building, and direct political participation by the people of El Salvador.

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