London Mining NetworkCATAPA | London Mining Network http://londonminingnetwork.org Holding the mining industry to account Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 International campaign: Mining in Paradise? No-go zones for Mining http://londonminingnetwork.org/2010/09/international-campaign-mining-in-paradise-no-go-zones-for-mining/ http://londonminingnetwork.org/2010/09/international-campaign-mining-in-paradise-no-go-zones-for-mining/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:50:48 +0000 Richard http://londonminingnetwork.org/?p=2498 LMN member group CATAPA has, with Peruvian organisations, launched a campaign in support of communities in Northern Peru who are saying ‘No’ to mining in their areas, including by companies based in London. Read about the …
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]]> LMN member group CATAPA has, with Peruvian organisations, launched a campaign in support of communities in Northern Peru who are saying ‘No’ to mining in their areas, including by companies based in London. Read about the campaign at:  http://www.mininginparadise.org/

The campaign is calling for people to sign a petition to European and Peruvian authorities. See http://www.mininginparadise.org/sites/default/files/uploads/petition_long_ENG.pdf.

Sign the petition at http://www.mininginparadise.org/en/node/47.

]]> http://londonminingnetwork.org/2010/09/international-campaign-mining-in-paradise-no-go-zones-for-mining/feed/ 0 Deadly conflict over mining laws in Peru http://londonminingnetwork.org/2009/06/deadly-conflict-over-mining-laws-in-peru/ http://londonminingnetwork.org/2009/06/deadly-conflict-over-mining-laws-in-peru/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:11:03 +0000 Richard http://londonminingnetwork.org/?p=663 Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen from LMN member group CATAPA were caught up in the brutal police response to recent Indigenous protests over laws opening the Peruvian Amazon region to mining, oil and timber development. …
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]]> Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen from LMN member group CATAPA were caught up in the brutal police response to recent Indigenous protests over laws opening the Peruvian Amazon region to mining, oil and timber development. Survival International has published their report, ‘Death at Devil’s Bend: an eyewitness account’, which provides a dramatic narrative of the day’s events, which ended with a large number of people, both police officers and indigenous protesters, dead. Read the report at http://www.survival-international.org/news/4687. See also http://www.catapa.be/en/news/369.

The President of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation AIDESEP was forced into exile. Alberto Pizango sought refuge in the Nicaraguan embassy in Peru’s capital Lima after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Nicaragua granted him asylum. Pizango was charged with ‘sedition, conspiracy and rebellion’. See http://www.survival-international.org/news/4650?utm_source=E-news+(English)&utm_campaign=501c55f142-Enews_Special_Peru_Protests6_10_2009&utm_medium=email.

Peru’s President Alan Garcia has now acknowledged that he made ‘errors’ in his bid to open the area to extractives industries. Peru’s Congress has voted to revoke the two laws which led to the conflict. See http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-peru-amazon19-2009jun19,0,7934644.story.

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