Connecting Common Struggles
Destructive Mining in El Salvador and Wisconsin
Event Details
Date
Monday, November 12, 2012
Time
12 p.m.
Location
206 Ingraham Hall
Description
This is an informative discussion of mining issues in Wisconsin & El Salvador. Mining activist & organizer, UW-La Crosse Professor Al Gedicks will be joined by Brother Domingo Solis & Father Lorenzo Cruz from El Salvador who are working to protect their communities from mining interests. They will discuss the environmental destruction that mining would bring to El Salvador, the need for legislation that bans mining, & about threats against environmentalists.
Cost
Free