“People around the world are paying attention to what is happening here in the belly of the beast,” Rachel Small, Canada organizer for World BEYOND War and member of the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), said on the steps of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), where forty percent of the world’s mining companies are traded.
From March 2 to March 5, the Toronto Metropolitan Convention Centre hosted the world’s largest mining conference. The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention drew 27,353 participants and over 1,100 exhibitors from the private sector and state governments.
As the convention kicked off, a protest organized by MISN denounced the greenwashing of the critical minerals sector and its role in fuelling militarism. In solidarity with Wetsuwe’ten land defenders and Chilean, Congolese, Palestinian, Sami, and Sudanese activists, roughly a hundred people marched…
