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Yes To Life No To Mining

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A global network of and for communities, organisations and networks saying Yes to Life, No to Mining and advancing post-extractivism. linktr.ee/ylnm

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
☣️ Los impactos de la minería no terminan en el lugar donde se extraen los minerales. Agua contaminada, polvo tóxico, metales pesados presentes en los suelos y los alimentos, emisiones peligrosas: la minería puede exponer a trabajadores y comunidades cercanas a través de múltiples vías ⚠ 👇🧵
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣 Eight environmental defenders from Barangay Kakiduguen, Kasibu, are facing three counts of grave coercion each after residents barricaded a road to protest NLMRC’s mining exploration in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
La minería no solo usa agua: puede transformar los sistemas hídricos de los que dependen comunidades y ecosistemas enteros 🌱💧 Toda actividad minera utiliza grandes volúmenes de agua, que normalmente se extrae de fuentes locales. Pero la extracción es solo una parte del problema. Sigue 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
¿Qué queda en los territorios cuando el mineral se va? 🤔 🇧🇴 En Bolivia, comunidades como San Agustín de Puñaca llevan años enfrentando contaminación minera, pérdida de fuentes de agua y de sus medios tradicionales de vida. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ninguna comunidad debería tener que esperar a que el agua esté contaminada, sus medios de vida destruidos o sus vínculos sociales quebrados para que su negativa sea tomada en serio ☣️ 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nearly 11 years after the Fundão dam collapse, Samarco has finally been criminally convicted ✊📣 In 2015 the collapse in Mariana, killed 19 people, destroyed communities and sent millions of cubic metres of mining waste through the Rio Doce. Its impacts are still being lived today. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Lynas Rare Earths is often presented as part of the race to secure the minerals needed for the energy transition, but its supply chain tells a much wider story 📣 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Kasibu 11 are out on bail, but the struggle is far from over ✊🔥 📣 On August 28, 11 environmental defenders were violently arrested at the people’s barricade in Barangay Paquet, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, as communities resisted the entry of fuel and supplies for NLMRC. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 URGENT: 12 PEOPLE ARRESTED AT THE KASIBU ANTI-MINING BARRICADE Twelve people were arrested today, August 28, as police forces moved against the people’s barricade in Paquet, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
☣️ Mining’s impacts don’t stop at the mine site. Contaminated water, toxic dust, heavy metals in soils and food, hazardous emissions — mining can expose workers and surrounding communities through multiple pathways, often extending far beyond the boundaries of a project ⚠️ 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
💧 Mining doesn’t just use water. It can transform the water systems that entire communities and ecosystems depend on. All mining uses large volumes of water, normally taken from local sources. But extraction is only part of the story. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join our webinar 📣 Lynas Rare Earths: Militarised Extractivism in Action Out webinar traces the imperial powers behind the West’s “clean” rare earths champion and the communities who have refused to accept the toxic legacy left in their name. 👇🧵
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A green transition cannot be built on new sacrifice zones ✊ Nigeria already knows what happens when wealth leaves a territory while pollution, damaged livelihoods and ecological destruction remain. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
📣 Indigenous Peoples and farming communities in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya have spent nearly three months defending their lands from mining exploration through peaceful community barricades. 🧵🧵
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No community should have to wait for poisoned water, destroyed livelihoods or broken social ties before its refusal is taken seriously ☣️ 📣 The right to say no to mining is not something communities earn after proving that a project will cause enough harm. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No community should have to wait for poisoned water, destroyed livelihoods or broken social ties before its refusal is taken seriously ☣️ 📣 The right to say no to mining is not something communities earn after proving that a project will cause enough harm. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Et si un dangereux projet minier était proposé sous votre ville?☣️ C’est ce à quoi font face les communautés de Rouyn-Noranda, au Québec, avec Horne 5 : un projet de mine souterraine dans le quartier Notre-Dame, sous une zone urbaine déjà marquée par aujourd’hui un siècle de pollution industrielle🧵👇
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For nearly three months, Pala’wan communities in Sitio Linao maintained a barricade to prevent mining machinery from advancing further into their ancestral domain ✋️ 📣 On June 29, the barricade was dismantled in an operation supported by several state agencies. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Europe’s race to secure critical raw materials is accelerating extraction and destruction 📣 💥 Nickel, lithium, copper, cobalt, bauxite and rare earths are being demanded for electric mobility, digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence, aerospace development and growing weapons production. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Europe’s race to secure critical raw materials is accelerating extraction and destruction 📣 💥 Nickel, lithium, copper, cobalt, bauxite and rare earths are being demanded for electric mobility, digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence, aerospace development and growing weapons production. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“We will reject mining until death” ✊🔥 📣 For more than eight years, communities in Beutong Ateuh, Aceh, have resisted mining plans that threaten their forests, livelihoods, history and collective future. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What if a massive mine was proposed beneath your city? ☣️ 📣✊️ That is what communities in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, are facing with Horne 5: a proposed underground mining project in the Notre-Dame neighbourhood, beneath an urban area already marked by nearly a century of industrial pollution. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Defender el agua no debería terminar en una acusación penal ✊️ 📣 Sin embargo, los días 3, 4, 5 y 6 de agosto, Los 11 de Jericó enfrentarán una nueva etapa del proceso judicial iniciado tras su participación en la resistencia al proyecto minero Quebradona, filial de AngloGold Ashanti. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Vamos a ganar esta lucha, me lo dijo el río" ✊️❤️ 🙌 Recordar a Berta Caceres no es solo homenajear su legado. Es sostener la convicción de que los territorios no son zonas de sacrificio y que quienes los defienden no deberían ser perseguidos, criminalizados ni asesinados. 🎨 @espacio__abierto
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
⚠️ NUEVO INFORME de nuestros aliados de Deep Sea Mining Campaign ⚠️ La minería en alta mar representa un riesgo radiactivo para nuestro océano del que nadie está hablando. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
⚠️ NEW REPORT from the Deep Sea Mining Campaign⚠️ 🐳 Deep sea mining poses a radioactive risk to our ocean — and it is barely being discussed. A new report by the DSM warns that mineral formations on the ocean floor, can contain radioactive isotopes that emit alpha particles. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🤔🌱 ¿Qué tecnologías se están promoviendo en nombre de la transición? ¿Qué territorios quedan expuestos al avance extractivo? ¿Qué resistencias están defendiendo la vida frente a la geopolítica de los minerales críticos? 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Aotearoa is not for sale ✋️ 📣 New Zealand’s public conservation land is facing one of its biggest threats in a generation: the Government’s new Conservation Amendment Bill would change the rules that protect conservation land, making it easier to prioritise “economic opportunities” over nature. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The war economy does not begin with weapons. It begins in the ground 💥 ✊ Across the island, communities are resisting a new wave of mineral exploration and extraction. But these struggles are not only about mining. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
En Panamá, la defensa del agua y los territorios también está siendo atacada en el espacio digital 🇵🇦💻 🔎 La investigación Taladores Digitales, liderada por el Centro Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Investigación, reveló cómo operan campañas de hostigamiento contra defensoras/es en la región. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
✊ Somos una red de solidaridad global formada por comunidades y organizaciones de todas las regiones. ✋ Rechazamos el extractivismo minero que explota a la naturaleza y los pueblos. ♻️ Cuestionamos los discursos del «greenwashing» y de la militarización que justifican la violencia de la extracción.
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What is Pax Silica? 🧐 📣 Pax Silica is being promoted as a pathway to technological development, AI infrastructure, and economic security. 🧵👇 #ShutThePaxDown #PaxSilica #Philippines
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A new legal step in Covas do Barroso 🇵🇹✊️ 📣 After the government order we shared about in our previous post the Common Lands of Covas do Barroso have filed an injunction against the administrative easement. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
La respuesta somos nosotrxs 🌱 En esta publicación basada en uno de nuestros últimos Documentos de Posición, ponemos la mirada en los caminos que ya están siendo construidos por pueblos, comunidades y movimientos en todo el mundo 🔎 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Cultural heritage was the topic of this week at the public inquiry into the proposed mega goldmine in the Sperrin Mountains, Ireland ✊ 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🇭🇹 En Haití, un nuevo decreto minero fue aprobado en un contexto especialmente delicado: sin Parlamento funcionando y sin un debate nacional amplio sobre sus consecuencias. 🧵👇
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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tomorrow - join the global resistance to Glencore. ⏰ 11am 📍 18 Hanover Sq, London W1S 1JY As protests take place around the world, stand in solidarity with communities affected by Glencore and amplify their demands. Find out more: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/05/glen... #GlencoreKills
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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
#GlencoreKills global day of action in London. As Glencore’s shareholders met in Switzerland to celebrate a $2 billion payout, we stood in solidarity with mining affected communities around the world who pay the true costs of these profits. From Colombia to the DRC - Glencore off our lands!
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
VICTORIA PARA EL RÍO ORTEGA EN ECUADOR 💧✊️ 📣 La Comunidad Intercultural Ortega Alto, en Yacuambi, Zamora Chinchipe, ganó en primera instancia una Acción de Protección para defender al río Ortega frente al avance de concesiones mineras. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Las falsas soluciones no van a resolver una crisis real 💥 📣 En uno de nuestros últimos documentos de posición sostenemos que la minería para la llamada “transición verde” no está reemplazando a los combustibles fósiles: se está integrando a ellos. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
¿Qué se sacrifica en nombre del “desarrollo”? 📣 🇪🇨⛏️ En Imbabura, al norte de Ecuador, avanza Cascabel: un megaproyecto minero que podría convertirse en una de las mayores minas subterráneas de plata, oro y cobre del mundo. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The real treasure of the Sperrins stole the show on Day 11 of the resumed public inquiry into Dalradian’s proposed gold mine in the Sperrin Mountains: local people spoke from the heart of their commitment to defend their home, their families, their livelihoods and their future 🙌 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🌍 Across different territories around the world, communities are facing militarisation, criminalisation, mining expansion and new forms of extractivism promoted under the discourse of a “green transition”. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Militarización, criminalización, expansión minera y falsas soluciones climáticas. Aunque muchas veces aparecen como conflictos aislados, comunidades de distintos territorios del mundo vienen denunciando patrones cada vez más similares. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🔎 Durante décadas, Haití fue presentado como un país “sentado sobre una mina de oro”, con un subsuelo lleno de minerales "estratégicos". Pero detrás de esa narrativa hay más incertidumbres que certezas: no hay información concluyente sobre la magnitud real de esos recursos. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Llegamos al último posteo de nuestra serie “La militarización es extracción: de las minas a los misiles”. A lo largo de estos posteos, seguimos el rastro de cómo el extractivismo y la militarización están profundamente entrelazados. 🧵👇
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🔥 A world organised around endless growth is pushing people and ecosystems beyond their limits. What if we organised work, production and wealth differently. Around care, dignity and collective wellbeing? 🌱✊🏽
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🔥 La ilusión de un mundo con crecimiento ilimitado está llevando a las personas y a los ecosistemas más allá de sus límites. ¿Y si organizáramos el trabajo, la producción y la riqueza de otra manera, en torno al cuidado, la dignidad y el bienestar colectivo? 🌱✊🏽
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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Justice for the 19 killed in Toboso ✊🏽🇵🇭 A few days ago, a military operation in Toboso, Negros Occidental left 19 people dead and forced hundreds to flee their homes. 🧵👇
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