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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 · 02/10/2026

🌱 Their resistance carries a clear message: development should not come at the expense of the living systems that sustain communities. 🔗 Read the full article on our website: yestolifenotomining.org/nigeria-fore...

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the people of Samadua, protecting the forest means defending an economy that already supports them. It also means having a say in what happens to their land, and ensuring their children and grandchildren can continue living from it.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mining activities and exploration plans are raising concerns about the future of this land. Residents fear that forest clearing and disturbance in the upper watershed could affect water supplies and increase erosion, flooding and landslides—with consequences reaching farms and homes downstream ⚠️

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For more than three decades, nutmeg farming has helped sustain families, with gardens passed down through generations.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What happens to a community’s livelihoods when the forests sustaining them are opened up to mining?🌱💥 🇮🇩 In Samadua, Aceh, Indonesia, communities depend on the forests of the Leuser Ecosystem for water, food and income. 🧵👇

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Esta es la tercera y última publicación de nuestra serie basada en el documento de posición Por qué decimos No a la Minería y Sí a la Vida. 🤓 Leé el documento completo en nuestra web: yestolifenotomining.org/es/why-we-sa...

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌱 Cuando la minería contamina el agua, el suelo y el aire, las comunidades llevan esos impactos en sus propios cuerpos. Proteger la salud también significa proteger los territorios y ecosistemas que sostienen la vida.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Y los trabajadores mineros enfrentan estas mismas exposiciones mientras trabajan en condiciones en las que derrumbes, explosiones, deslizamientos de tierra y fallas de maquinaria pueden resultar mortales.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Estos impactos no son abstractos. El mercurio puede acumularse a lo largo de la cadena alimentaria y provocar daños neurológicos irreversibles. Los contaminantes presentes en el aire pueden contribuir al desarrollo de enfermedades respiratorias y cánceres.

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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

ANVIK is raising funds for bail, legal expenses and other needs of the Kasibu defenders. If you can contribute, use the QR code in the final slide for local donations or visit paypal.me/ANVIK2026 to donate inter nationally. Sharing this call also helps.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With three separate cases now filed in court, the recommended bail is ₱36,000 per person for each charge: ₱864,000 for all eight defenders. According to ANVIK, the community is watching for possible arrest warrants ⚠️🚨

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The complaints were filed by three company personnel in connection with the barricade, which prevented NLMRC staff from entering and leaving the area.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌱 El agua sostiene los suelos, los cultivos, la biodiversidad, los medios de vida y la vida humana. Cuando las comunidades defienden el agua, están defendiendo una red de vida interconectada. 🌐 yestolifenotomining.org/es/why-we-sa...

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Los relaves mineros también representan un riesgo a largo plazo y requieren una gestión permanente, incluso mucho después de que haya terminado la extracción.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Y algunos impactos pueden prolongarse mucho más allá de la vida útil de una mina. El drenaje ácido de mina, una vez que comienza, puede continuar indefinidamente, liberando metales pesados y sustancias tóxicas en la tierra y el agua.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 La minería puede contaminar el agua con metales pesados y otras sustancias tóxicas, agotar las aguas subterráneas, drenar acuíferos y alterar los sistemas hídricos subterráneos, contribuyendo al secado de ríos, manantiales y otras fuentes vitales de agua.

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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

📣 En un momento en que gobiernos y empresas hablan cada vez más de “minerales críticos”, la pregunta sigue siendo necesaria: ¿críticos para quién y a costa de quién? Este posteo se basó en un artículo de Antonio Sánchez para El Salto: www.elsaltodiario.com/bolivia/mine...

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Desde las entrañas del extractivismo, un libro que permite mirar más allá del mineral y preguntarnos qué cuerpos, aguas y territorios están sosteniendo realmente este modelo.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

El abogado ambientalista Antonio Sánchez Gómez recorrió estos territorios y acompañó algunos de estos procesos de denuncia. Su investigación y esas voces forman parte de Remover la tierra (editado por editorial Sigilio, Omnívora y El Cuervo).

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

El Poopó es solo una parte del mapa. Desde las minas de estaño del altiplano hasta las dragas auríferas que remueven los ríos amazónicos, la extracción deja detrás metales pesados, enfermedades, pasivos ambientales y comunidades obligadas a defender sus territorios frente a intereses más poderosos 💸

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

El Tribunal Constitucional llegó a reconocer que la falta de control estatal vulneró sus derechos al agua y a la salud. Pero el daño y la falta de reparación continúan.

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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

Este es el primer post de una serie basada en nuestro documento de posición Por qué decimos No a la Minería y Sí a la Vida. 🤓 Leé el documento de posición completo en nuestra web: yestolifenotomining.org/es/why-we-sa...

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Para los Pueblos Indígenas, esto incluye la autonomía, la autodeterminación y la soberanía territorial. Para todas las comunidades, significa poder proteger y cuidar sus territorios de acuerdo con sus propios valores y sistemas de conocimiento ✊

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Significa tener una participación real en las decisiones que afectan sus tierras, sus aguas, su salud, sus culturas y sus futuros, y que esas decisiones sean respetadas.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📣 El derecho a decirle no a la minería no es algo que las comunidades tengan que ganarse demostrando primero que un proyecto provocará daños suficientes. Ese derecho existe desde el comienzo.

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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

Communities should not have to fight for more than a decade for those responsible for destruction to be held accountable. Justice delayed cannot become the business model of the mining industry.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is a significant step in breaking the cycle of impunity that so often follows mining disasters. But accountability is far from complete: Vale and BHP, the companies that own Samarco, remain acquitted in this criminal case 🔍

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

⚖ A Brazilian federal appeals court has now convicted Samarco and three former managers, overturning their previous acquittal. The ruling found that the company knew about serious risks at the dam and ignored technical warnings while pursuing increased production and profits.

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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

Rare earths may be called “critical”. But critical for whom — and at whose expense? 🌐 Read the full article and watch the complete webinar, Lynas Rare Earths: Militarised Extractivism in Action, on our website: yestolifenotomining.org #Lynas #RareEarths #CriticalMinerals #Mining

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

During our recent webinar with AidWatch, speakers from Malaysia, Japan and Australia traced these connections — from radioactive waste in Kuantan to the growing military-industrial demand for so-called “critical minerals”, and to movements organising across borders to resist them.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is what militarised extractivism looks like: mining, geopolitical competition and military expansion becoming increasingly intertwined, while the environmental and social costs are pushed onto particular communities and territories 💥

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

At the same time, Japan and the United States have poured public money into Lynas to secure rare earth supplies outside China — and Pentagon funding is now supporting the production of elements used in fighter jets, missile guidance systems, night vision, submarines and other military technologies.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

☣️ Rare earths are mined in Australia and processed in Malaysia, where communities have been left to deal with millions of tonnes of hazardous waste, including radioactive material containing thorium and uranium.

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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 August 28 arrests were not an isolated attack. Just 9 days earlier, 3 members of the Kasibu Inter-Tribal Response for Ecological Development were arrested at the same barricade, amid an escalating pattern of police harassment against anti-mining defenders in Nueva Vizcaya 🇵🇭

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨 They are demanding the revocation of the company’s exploration permit and rejecting attempts to push mining forward without their genuine free, prior and informed consent.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They were released on September 1, but still face charges of grave coercion and resistance and disobedience. 🤚 For months, Indigenous Peoples and local residents have maintained barricades to resist NLMRC’s mining exploration and defend their ancestral lands, farms, water sources and livelihoods.

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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

We stand with the people of Kasibu 🔥 We call for the immediate release of all those arrested, the withdrawal of police forces from the barricade, and an end to the criminalisation and intimidation of communities defending their territories. 🌱 Defending land and water is not a crime.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And this is not an isolated incident. Just nine days ago, three Indigenous members of KIRED were arrested at the same barricade. Communities, environmental defenders and their lawyers have faced increasing police intimidation and legal harassment as resistance to the project continues.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📣✊️ Indigenous Peoples and local communities have maintained peaceful barricades in Kasibu since May, defending their lands, farms, forests and water sources and challenging a mining exploration project they say has proceeded without genuine consultation.

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Yes To Life No To Mining @ylnm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The operation sought to clear the way for crude oil linked to the mining exploration activities of North Luzon Mineral Resources Corporation (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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