December 29, 2021
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Dear friends,
Below, you will find a range of reviews, articles and commentaries about our recently published book.
TESTIMONIO addresses four courageous, dangerous community defense struggles against the harms and violence of global mining companies (mainly Canadian, also American and Swiss) that Rights Action has been supporting and involved with since 2004.
Your funds at work!
Thank-you to our individual supporters and foundations. Your donations go directly to supporting these Indigenous and campesino land, human rights and environmental defenders.
In 2022, we will continue to support these and other community defense, and human rights and justice struggles in Guatemala and Honduras. We will continue to denounce the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. and Canadian governments, our companies and investors, in these on-going harms and violence.
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TESTIMONIO: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
By Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell (editors)
Published by Between The Lines, October 21, 2021
Witness to Canadian mining
Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
The Ormsby Review, by Howard Macdonald Stewart, Dec.15, 2021
https://ormsbyreview.com/2021/12/15/1326-stewart-nolin-russell/
Canadian Mining Companies Profit as Guatemalans Suffer, Authors Argue
Review by Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee, Dec.12, 2021
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/12/10/Canadian-Mining-Companies-Profit-Guatemalans-Suffer/
Damning testimony in new book reveals horrific record of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala
Review by Joan Baxter, Halifax Examiner, Nov.17, 2021
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/it-pains-me-to-tell-you-that-the-image-of-canada-is-severely-damaged/
Is Canada to blame for human rights abuses in Guatemala? Ongoing civil suits against Canadian mining companies reveals embassy's role in creating favourable climate for business in the country
Excepts from TESTIMONIO, by Annie Hylton, Oct.31, 2021, Now Toronto
https://nowtoronto.com/news/is-canada-to-blame-for-human-rights-abuses-in-guatemala
TESTIMONIO Book launch, Oct.25, 2021
Co-editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell discuss their powerful new book on the date of its publication, along with several of the book's contributors. Testimonio draws on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian mining industry—a staggeringly profitable juggernaut of exploitation, sanctioned and supported every step of the way by the Canadian government.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ZeNaMaFtk
In TESTIMONIO, UNBC researchers document Canadian mining company-linked human rights violations
The book is edited and co-written by UNBC Geography Professor Dr. Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell, director of Rights Action and UNBC Adjunct Professor, and is based on their research and direct community support in Guatemala since 2004.
UNBC Stories, Oct.22, 2021
https://www2.unbc.ca/newsroom/unbc-stories/testimonio-unbc-researchers-document-canadian-mining-company-linked-human-rights-violations
Brisna Caxaj-Rowe, victim of Guatemalan repression in 1980s, comments on TESTIMONIO
Rights Action, Oct.22, 2021
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/commentary-on-testimonio-by-brisna-caxaj-rowe
UNBC professor Catherine Nolin speaks at The Exploration Place ‘Adult Speakers Series’ on TESTIMONIO
[10 min - begins at 1:41:49]
CBC Daybreak North, Oct.18, 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-109-daybreak-north/clip/15873153-the-sex-life-eel-grass-did-lockdowns-work
Maude Barlow & others comment on TESTIMONIO
Rights Action, Oct.14, 2021
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/maude-barlow-comment-on-testimonio
CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers Council) passed a motion condemning last-minute cancellation of a book deal by Springer Nature, allegedly following third-party interference, as its suppression threatens academic freedom and scholarly communications.
CAUT, Feb. 2021
https://www.caut.ca/bulletin/2021/02/interview-catherine-nolin-grahame-russell
“Between The Lines to publish mining book dropped by Springer Nature over libel chill”
By Cassandra Drudi, Quill & Quire, Feb.25, 2021
https://quillandquire.com/omni/between-the-lines-to-publish-mining-book-dropped-by-nature-springer-over-libel-chill/
The book "Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala" was peer reviewed, and on its way to bookstore shelves until Springer Nature, the publisher, informed the authors they were canceling the publication contract, and returned the manuscript
Global Development Primer podcast, Dec.21, 2020
https://anchor.fm/robert-huish/episodes/Mining-the-Truth-Why-a-Publisher-Buried-a-Book-Exposing-Human-Rights-abuses-by-Canadian-Mining-Companies-in-Guatemala-endah6
“Spiked. BC Profs Protest after Publisher Drops Book on Canadian Mining. UNBC researchers’ book alleging wrongdoing in Guatemala was accepted, reviewed, then cancelled”
By Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee, Nov.25, 2020
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/25/BC-Profs-Protest-Publisher-Dropping-Mining-Book/
“Why did a Swiss publisher abruptly refuse to publish “Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala”?”
Public letter by Grahame Russell (Rights Action) & Catherine Nolin (UNBC), Nov.10, 2020
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/why-did-swiss-publisher-refuse-to-publish-canadian-mining-in-the-aftermath-of-genocides-in-guatemala
Organize TESTIMONIO public presentations
Contact: Grahame Russell ( [email protected]) / Catherine Nolin ( [email protected])
Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)
To support land and environment, human rights and justice defenders in Honduras and Guatemala – including the community defenders profiled in TESTIMONIO - make check 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
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