Amandla’s Gwen Schulman interviews Jamie Kneen of Mining Watch about a recent parliamentary paper on CIDA’s (scary) role in the world.
Category Archives: Mining
South African miners fight on
Amandla team members Avi Kanji and Doug Miller look at the situation of South African miners who have been fighting for their rights and fighting big mining companies for several months.
Filed under Mining, South Africa
A look at Canadian mining activities in Southern Africa
After a 7 month fact finding mission in South Africa, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania, independent journalists Tamara Herman and Susi Porter-Bopp who are working on a documentary film project focusing on Canadian mining activities in Africa return to Canada to share some of the most hard-hitting interviews they made. Amandla’s Gwen Schulman speaks to them.
Firoze Manji on Walter Rodney
From Amandla on CKUT in Montreal: Pambazuka news coordinator Firoze Manji speaks of the significance of Walter Rodney’s 1972 classic How Europe underdeveloped Africa.
Filed under Africa, industrie minière, Mining, Pambazuka
African poetry, mining in Southern Africa and the resignation of Bev Oda
The entire show:
In the first part, Amandla collaborator David Lieber presents Langston Hughes, an African American poet, in the context of July 4th, then (circa minute 20) Amandla Host Gwen Schulman speaks to independent journalists and filmmakers Tamara Herman and Susanne Porter-Bopp about their recent investigation in Southern Africa visiting communities impacted by Canadian mining companies, and finally Amandla regular Doug Miller comments on Canadian International Development minister Bev Oda resignation.
Unionising mineworkers in Malawi
In an exclusive interview recorded earlier this year in Karonga, northern Malawi, Amandla’s Doug Miller talks to union activists Moses Mwakisalu and Winstone Chikopa. They describe the struggle to create an effective national mineworkers’ union and the resistance to their efforts by Paladin, the operators of the Kayelekera uranium mine.
Operation Somba-Zongisa
Operation Somba-Zongisa is a consumer action aimed at increasing public awareness of the crucial link between coltan, mined in the DRC, the terrible violence there and the production of electronics. Targetting the Future Shop, St. Catherine St., Montreal, 17th. March 2012, the symbolic action consisted of a group of about 10 people returning previously bought goods to the store, explaining that the goods had blood on them from the DRC. Rose Marie Whalley interviewed Christelle Mokoko from the humanitarian group Generation Ingeta about the situation in the DRC.
Filed under belgian congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mining
Foreign mining in Tanzania
Foreign mining in Tanzania continues to proceed against a backdrop of human rights and evironmental violations. Gwendolyn Schulman talked to Barbara Fullerton about her recent trip to Tanzania, on behalf of the United Church of Canada, to see conditions on the ground.
Le massacre de Kilwa en RD Congo et la minière Anvil
La cour d’appel du Quebec a récemment déclinée sa capacité de porter un jugement dans le dossier de la compagnie minière Anvil en lien avec le massacre de 2004 de Kilwa en DRC.
Sophie Toupin s’entretient avec Denis Tougas d’Entraide missionnaire qui suit le dossier depuis plusieurs années.
Filed under Afrique, Mining, République du Congo, RDC
Foreign Aid to Mining Firms
CIDA teams up with NGOs to do development work at mine sites
MONTREAL—As excavators, heavy haulers and chemical treatment plants dig made-in-Canada mines around the world, Ottawa has taken new steps to ease growing criticism of Canada’s extractive sector.
The Harper government recently announced a publicly funded agreement between three of Canada’s mining giants and three of Canada’s leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The agreement, which marks a significant shift in how mining and politics mix, elicited little more than a yawn from the media. But a closer look reveals this partnership is transforming Canada’s aid landscape—with disturbing implications.
“The Canadian government is using aid to support the expansion of Canadian mining…[and] to determine development paths inside countries according to the logic of mining companies,” Yao Graham of Third World Network Africa, a research and advocacy organization based in Ghana, told The Dominion. Graham has seen many communities in Africa ravaged by the exploitative labour practices and lax environmental practices that often accompany mining megaprojects.
Filed under Mining, Mining watch, Third World Network
