300 ORGANIZATIONS COLLECTIVELY SAY "NO TO OPEN-PIT MINING"
Gathering in the Province of San Juan, the heart of the Argentinean mining industry, representatives of the Union of Citizens Assemblies reaffirmed their commitment to fighting an economic model which is plundering natural resources and destroying livelihoods.
Gaby Romero, a school teacher and member of a neighborhood assembly in the province of La Rioja couldn’t quite believe it when she heard that a book, “The Young Miner”, had been produced by the local Ministry for Education. The book aims to teach school children about the benefits of mining.
“These companies come here to destroy our mountain, our water supply, our food security and our right to protest. They put us under surveillance, hire civilians to intimidate us and now they want to try and indoctrinate our children,” she says. “We won’t let them, we have been fighting them for three years now and we will continue to fight them until they are all gone.”
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