[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: [Featured Map] "¡Esto no Vale! Isso não Vale! Vale S.A. operations and socio-environmental conflicts"

[Ashish Kothari]

This may be of interest. In general, the Env. Justice Atlas 
(www.ejatlas.org) is a great source of informaiton and analysis on 
environment (broadly defined) related conflicts and resistance movements 
in many parts of the world.

Copying here Daniela, if anyone wants more details. Pl do not mail the 
full lists ...

ashish

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Subject: 	[Featured Map] "¡Esto no Vale! Isso não Vale! Vale S.A. 
operations and socio-environmental conflicts"
Date: 	Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:24:12 +0100
From: 	Daniela Del Bene <d.delbene at gmail.com>
To: 	Madhuresh <kmadhuresh at gmail.com>, Manshi Asher 
<manshi.asher at gmail.com>, Ashish Kothari <chikikothari at gmail.com>



Dears,

please help disseminate this product of the EJAtlas team through your 
networks, in collaboration with Brazilian movements and activist from 
several countries.

Protect the rivers, on 14th March and around the year.

Love,

Daniela

[EMBARGO PERIOD UNTIL 14.03.2019 8.00 am CET]


LAUNCH OF THE FEATURED MAP

"¡Esto no Vale! Isso não Vale! Vale S.A. operations and 
socio-environmental conflicts"

ENVJUSTICE PROJECT, ICTA-UAB


On the occasion of the International Action for Rivers 2019 
<https://www.internationalrivers.org/dayofactionforrivers>, the 
ENVJUSTICE <http://envjustice.org/>- EJAtlas <http://ejatlas.org/>team 
at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the 
Autonomous University of Barcelona releases "¡Esto no Vale! Isso não 
Vale! Vale S.A. operations and socio-environmental conflicts" 
<https://ejatlas.org/featured/envconflictsvale>a thematic map on 
socio-environmental conflicts in the world related to Vale S.A. mining 
and infrastructure projects. These include mining exploitation and 
tailings dams, such as those that broke in Mariana (2015) and Brumadinho 
(Jan 2019) leaving behind hundreds of deaths and irreversibly 
contaminating rivers and lands.

The map shows that the mining company is responsible for a large array 
of socio-environmental impacts globally. For the international day in 
protection of rivers, the research team wishes to contribute to the 
global efforts of environmental justice groups to reclaim justice and to 
stop corporate impunity. Furthermore, they also urge to reflect on the 
wider problems generated by a resource extractivist logic as pushed 
forward by large mining companies such as Vale and their political 
allies in the pursuit of economic growth and regional development. Such 
a model not only accentuates dependencies on primary exports in 
countries of the Global South, thereby deteriorating their balances and 
terms of trade, but also unevenly distributes the cost of environmental 
destruction while affected communities continue to face myriad 
injustices and a constant risk of such dramatic tragedies.

¡Esto no Vale Isso não Vale Vale S A global operations lead to socio 
environmental conflicts EJAtlas.png
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE ONLINE MAP 
<https://ejatlas.org/featured/envconflictsvale>

The map is produced by the EJAtlas research group at the Universitat 
Autónoma de Barcelona (Daniela Del Bene, Sara Mingorría, Grettel Navas, 
Lucrecia Wagner, Raquel Neyra, Max Stoisser), by Yannick Deniau of the 
Geocomunes collective (Mexico) and by Beatriz Saes (Universidade Federal 
Fluminense, Brazil). The text below is by Beatriz Saes.


Data have been co-produced between activist scholars, independent 
researchers and local activists. Authors of case forms are indicated at 
the end of each case sheet. The EJAtlas team is grateful to 
organizations and collectives that exchanged with us information and 
data and that struggle every day on the ground, in the courts, in their 
homes. Special thanks to the Movimento dos Atingidos e Atingidas per 
Barragens (MAB),  International Articulation of those Affected by Vale, 
Movimento Aguas de Gandarela, FASE, Jubileu Sul Brasil, Movimento pela 
Soberania Popular na Mineração (MAM), to the research group of Mapa de 
Conflitos envolvendo Injustiça Ambiental e Saúde no Brasil, Mining Watch 
Canada, JATAM Indonesia.


For more information:

Beatriz Saes <beatrizmsaes at gmail.com <mailto:beatrizmsaes at gmail.com>>

Daniela Del Bene <d.delbene at googlemail.com 
<mailto:d.delbene at googlemail.com>>

EJAtlas project editorial team <ejoltmap at gmail.com 
<mailto:ejoltmap at gmail.com>>



-- 
*Daniela Del Bene*
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology - ICTA 
<http://www.ictaweb.uab.cat>
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona


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