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Resist Unsafe Mining: Mining Exchange and EarthWINS Daily
Alice McCombs (amccombs@MAIL.WISCNET.NET)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:40:59 -0600
Announcing Mining-exchange and EarthWINS Daily
Mining-exchange is an international email listserv dedicated to helping
people who resist unsafe mining in their neighborhoods share information
about their strategies, mining, and mining corporations.
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d. Lawsuits, referendums, reforms of outdated/bad mining laws.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 minerals and metals.
EarthWINS Daily
EarthWINS Daily is the mining-exchange email newsletter distributed in
digest form. Articles in the digest will include:
a. Your posts to mining-exchange:
what's going on in your neighborhood
introductions
updates of group activities
your group's publications--newsletters, brochures
community education
action alerts & events
b. News about mining/activism compiled from other email listservs & news
services.
c. Information about mining corporations/activism
d. Annotated citations of sources about mining/activism.
e. Obtaining funding & media exposure for grassroots activism
f. Nifty humor and email art
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."
To receive EarthWINS Daily and subscribe to Mining-exchange: send an email
message to:
majordomo@igc.apc.org
with message:
subscribe mining-exchange
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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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"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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