Gorilla Radio interview with Grahame Russell (Rights Action) “Mining resistance struggles in Guatemala” →

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Grahame Russell and Catherine Nolin are co-editors of TESTIMONIO: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala.

The 38th Annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes Gala is hosted in Vancouver September 24th. This year, Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala has been selected as a finalist for the “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes”.

In anticipation of the Gala evening, Catherine and Grahame are talking about the book and the ongoing harmful impacts of Canadian companies’ operations on the people of Guatemala.

Vancouver book launch with Catherine Nolin
Sept. 25, 6-8pm, Massey Arts Society, 23 East Pender St., Vancouver: https://www.instagram.com/p/CiL4apcu9ir;
https://twitter.com/MassyArts/status/1567311502733987842


Grahame Russell is co-founder and director of Rights Action that since 2004 has been funding and supporting Indigenous and campesino community groups in four mining harmed regions of Guatemala, as they fight to stay on their land, protect the environment, and seek justice and reparations for the mining violence and human rights violations they are suffering.

Grahame is a part-time adjunct professor at UNBC and a non-practicing lawyer who lived and worked in Mexico and Central America, working with CODEHUCA, the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America, among other positions performed for a variety of rights organizations in the region.

 
 

Funding community defense/ mining resistance struggles in Guatemala
To help fund land and environmental defense struggles, human rights and justice struggles in Guatemala and Honduras – such as the mining resistance struggles profiled in TESTIMONIO - make tax-deductible donation to "Rights Action" and mail to:

  • U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887

  • Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8

Credit-Card Donations: http://rightsaction.org/donate/
Donations of securities in Canada and the U.S.? Write to: info@rightsaction.org
Bank-to-bank transfers? Write to: info@rightsaction.org
 
Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
Between the Lines, 2021