I’ve been working for several years on a large linoleum blockprint that traces the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan project.
El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both mining and border wall construction in remote areas.
An archaeologist traces the current protests in Peru to exploitive labor policies enacted in silver mines during Spanish colonial rule from 1532 to 1800.
By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining
Taking inventory for the new year of transformation and action
A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup
With this summer’s strike, the country’s powerful Indigenous movement united two agendas long in tension: resistance to austerity and opposition to natural resource extraction.
Coal mining destroyed Appalachia's mountaintops. Then came the floodwaters.
Voters in Colombia and France put left coalitions in office, and Tunisian workers shut the country down
Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.
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