This series of public talks center on the socio-ecological impacts of the mega-mine “Mirador” in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. These talks feature members from the Indigenous organization CASCOMI and of the environmental collective Comunálisis, who will share (via zoom) their insights and expertise on the entrenched politics and conflicts related to the rise of extractive projects and the global demand for “critical minerals” in Ecuador and Latin America.

This series is sponsored by the Center for Global Studies with the additional support of the Politics Department.

Luis Sánchez, Maxey 306, Wednesday March 5, 5-7.30pm 

“The intergenerational organization is the continuity of Indigenous peoples, metallic mining is death and dispossession”

William Sacher, Maxey 306, Wednesday March 12, 5-7.30pm 

“How to estimate the social costs and benefits of ‘mining gigantism’?"

Michelle Báez, Maxey 306, Wednesday April 2, 5-7.30pm

“Indigenous women, the State and mining extractivism in Ecuador”