Resist unsafe mining: mining-exchange

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• From: Alice McCombs <amccombs@MAIL.WISCNET.NET>
• Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:05:49 -0600
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Announcing:

Mining-exchange, an international forum established to
help people resist unsafe mining "in their neighborhoods."

Is mining going on in or planned for your city, state, region or country?
Would you like to have some help stopping it, preventing it?
Would you like to share information about mining?
Would you like to receive information about mining?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then subscribe to
mining-exchange.

To subscribe to mining exchange, send a message to: majordomo@igc.apc.org
With message: subscribe mining-exchange

Mining-exchange actively seeks information about mining around the world.

Subscribers to mining-exchange share information about resistance
strategies, mining, and mining companies.

Information posted by subscribers to mining-exchange includes (but is not
necessarily limited to):

1. What people/groups are doing in their communities to resist mining:
  a. Community education, organizing.
  b. Participation in local, state, and federal public hearings, environmental
         impact reports.
  c. Publications, email listservs, World Wide Web sites.
  d. Lawsuits, referendums, reforms of outdated/bad mining laws.
  e. Protests, rallies, demonstrations,letter-writing campaigns, phone banks.
2. Discussion/documentation of any of the following activities by mining
companies:
  a. Pollution, tailings waste leakage, violations of environmental laws.
  b. Environmental racism, human rights violations.
  c. Interference with democratic participatory government, lobbying.
  d. Negative socio-economic impacts.
  e. Destruction of native/indigenous communities.
3. Mining companies':
  a. Parent companies, subsidiaries, directors, officers, corporate owners,
        and individual owners.
  b. Links to other mining companies.
  c. Links to other industries e.g. logging; paper; nuclear power, waste and
        arms; hazardous waste disposal; chemical; pesticide; etc.
  d. Links to right wing anti-environmental groups e.g. the Wise Use movement,
         Anti-Indian movement, hate groups, militias, etc.
4. Sustainable alternatives to mining--how to effectively rethink, reduce,
reuse and recycle.

Mining-exchange exists to serve you, to help you preserve your community
and the environment for you and your children. The mining-exchange motto
is: "When Earth WINS, Everybody wins."

Please feel free to distribute this message.


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"People have the power to redeem the work of fools."
Patti Smith

For Mother Earth. . .
For Humanity. . .

Alice McCombs
P.O. Box 573
Shawano, WI  54166
FX: 715-524-9958
Email: amccombs@mail.wiscnet.net

PEACE
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