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EventsMining Tailings Dam Collapses in Canada and Brazil: Who Cares?

Friday, May 29, 2020 EDT @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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Join us Friday, May 29, 2020 at 2:00PM EDT for a webinar with Judith Marshall and Daniela Campolina.

Register Here: https://secure.kairoscanada.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=171

The webinar will focus on three major tailings dam breaches that have occurred in the Americas over the last decade. Together these disasters in Canada and Brazil have caused loss of almost 300 lives and enormous long-term damage to vital eco-systems. The breaches are best understood not as events but as processes, related to policies, actions and omissions in the years prior to the ruptures.

The disasters have revealed mining companies and governments intent on business as usual, with little or no defence of the rights of workers, communities, and the environment. Brazilian and Canadian citizens are responding by inventing new ways to care for each other and care for the planet.

Judith Marshall spent the 1970s in Southern Africa liberation solidarity activities in Toronto and worked in literacy campaigns in Mozambique in the 1980s. In the 1990s, she embarked on a 20-year stint in the global affairs department of the Steelworkers Union. She has written many articles on mining, including recent comparative studies of mine tailings dam collapses in Canada and Brazil.

Daniela Campolina is a high school science teacher in Minas Gerais state in Brazil. She lives in a mining community located between the two biggest tailings dam collapses in the Americas, Mariana and Brumadinho. She is an activist in the Movement for Mountains and Waters of Minas Gerais (MovSAM). She is a PhD student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais doing research on the influence of mining in the education system.


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