COURSE: Library & Information Science 875: Technical Foundations of Information Science
MEDIUM: Video Essay
DESCRIPTION:
The Canadian mining company Pacific Rim is currently suing the government of El Salvador under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) to recoup $77 million in lost profit after the country denied it a mining exploitation permit. Over the past few years, anti-mining activists, journalists, and religious leaders in El Salvador have been threatened for speaking out about the environmental impacts of mining. In 2009, three activists were murdered.