SPEAKERS TOUR 2022 OVERVIEW The Speakers Tour was a big success! Thank you all so much for making this happen! What a wonderful edition. This year, two environmental defenders, Mirtha and Rosas from Cajamarca, Perú, were
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CATAPA’s next Speakers Tour is coming up! From the 3rd until the 13th of March we have two Peruvian guests visiting us in Belgium: Rosas Duran Carrera, a farmer and activist from the Valle de
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Webinar: Virtual classes, but no Internet access: Education during a pandemic in Peru May 11th, Online Registration Imagine living in a rural community where there´s no Internet, no cable TV, close to no means of
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ONLINE SPRING SCHOOL: Escuela de Primavera: Catapa's spring school on extractivism in Colombia April 21st - May 29th, Online Registration Learn about the struggle against extractivism in Colombia through our 'Escuela de Primavera'. This year
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The El Tingo case Water pollution caused by toxic mining waste has radically transformed the regional ecosystem, poisoning the land. Author - Giacomo Perna During one of his visits to Macondo, Melquiades and his gypsies
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Guardians of water In 1957 the American newspaper The New Yorker published a poem by British poet W. H. Auden, the end of which recited: "Thousands have survived without love. Not one without water”. Indeed,
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10 Ways CATAPA Took on the Mining Industry in 2020 Its been a challenging year across the world with the Covid-19 pandemic not least for communities facing down mining projects trying to exploit the
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What do you know about mining?There is an unlimited appetite for resources on a biophysically limited earth. The resource issues will be high on the international agenda in the next decades and plays, just like
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Author: Maxime Degroote Ghost town Choropampa: Twenty Years after the Mercury Spill On June 2, 2000, a truck with a load from the Yanacocha mine lost about 150 kilograms of mercury in the
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Caning, arrests and social issues Ten days of quarantine in Peru Author: MAXIME DEGROOTE DISCLAIMER: This article was written on March 25, after the first ten days of quarantine in Peru. By now, after six
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