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… a book documenting the struggle of the Mangyan people and supporters against destructive mining. (goldmanprize.org) Gariguez Book Launch (courtesy of goldmanprize.org) Filipino Fr. Edwin … a book documenting the struggle of the Mangyan people and supporters against destructive mining. (goldmanprize.org) … protecting the indigenous people and protecting the environment especially against large-scale mining." "We hope that this can be a big sign for people that there are others outside the …

… what their parents were expecting. And that’s a familiar story for at least one reason: it’s mine. Read the entire piece here. …

… Why was that? Maybe Cleopas or his companion had a weak heart or possibly an illness like mine. It was so thoughtful to make them feel at ease and then bring them so tenderly to an …

… the claim of the still-alien God who demanded every ounce of his faith? A dear friend of mine, Fr. Ferd Cheri, said to me the other night, "Ask them, 'Is there no ram in the bush?' " …

… with The Center for International Environmental Law to talk about environmental damage from mining in Guatemala. It made me and the others present sit up straighter and pay closer …

… climate future," he said. A statement from Hal Quinn, the president and CEO of the National Mining Association, called the proposal "a poorly disguised cap-and-tax scheme that represents …

… March 13, campaigners from Cambodia urged the South Korean government to ban using land mines and to scrap its stockpiles of mines and cluster munitions. Mercy Sr. Denise Coghlan, … human rights,” according to the foundation’s website. Kosal lost both legs after stepping on a mine in Battambang -- the most heavily mined province in Cambodia -- when she was 5 years old. Coghlan has worked in Cambodia for more …

… helping him live an upright life and why he is in their corner in the bout against destructive mining. Some of the 72 diocesan and religious priests serving in the Marbel diocese are to gather … The project plans to clear 3,935 hectares of forest, including rainforests, to build open-pit mines. The mines will tap what are reportedly the largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits in the …

… and future generations and have identified multiple serious threats that begin with uranium mining, the front end of the nuclear energy cycle, and end with the problem of “spent fuel” …

… Daniel-Garcia : The program and its center were in their infancy and I was barely out of mine. I remember a hall gleaming with the sheen of linoleum flooring. I remember the dark windows …

… there has been recent violence in the community, which is one of Colombia’s oldest gold-mining centers. Just six months earlier, amid a bitter local row over the town’s spectacular gold … the local industry -- which still practices dangerous and dirty 19th-century artisanal mining and milling techniques -- is intensifying. With support from the Colombian government, … people I met with all agreed on the need to balance the expansion of foreign-backed industrial mining companies with the need to sustain local, small-scale miners. Gold, everyone said, has …

… for the evening Mass on Jan. 15 in the Church of Santa Barbara in Marmato, a mountainside mining village in central Colombia, were ordinary in every detail but one. Shortly before the … and puttered down the unpaved, tortuously steep mountain road past the numerous small gold mines that employ most of the villagers. His plan was to visit family members in a nearby city -- … Colombia Gold Corp. -- Marmato would be obliterated in order to make way for a vast open-pit mine that would allow the company maximum access to what it calls “a world-class ore body” that …

… fraud, corruption, a sagging economy, and various economic policies, such as those covering mining, that threaten to destroy local communities. "On all these issues, we have to speak out on …

… He cited the impact of laws that do not promote "responsible development," such as the Mining Act of 1995, and "infringe on rights of people to land, water and resources from which …

… McDonagh asked Berry if he could study with him for a week. “Waste of your time, waste of mine,” Berry said. “Four, five months.” With some trepidation McDonagh telegrammed his superior …

… Friends of mine live in a developing country where students receive help preparing for college in the United …

… to make the case for their favorites and anti-favorites in the comment section. Here are mine: Most consequential: Three-way tie: Washington, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. Washington’s …

… to be left behind. My last words to my mother as her body was lowered into the ground were mine, not hers; my cadence, my style and not my mother’s. A little too obscure, a little too …

… takes a lot of energy and water to extract and refine this resource into useable fuel, and the mining is environmentally destructive,” read the letter. “We can say categorically that this …

… all, know about the wars and rancor in Africa today,” she said to me, her eyes gazing into mine. “We consecrated religious must dedicate ourselves to reconciliation. We must become …