Manu Chao, Galeano and other artists raise their voices against mega-mining

For a law that prohibits open-pit, nuclear and radioactive polluting mining, which affects the human right to live in an unpolluted environment and with access to clean water, the NO TO THE MINE project was born to raise awareness among as many people as possible that the model of resource exploitation and the excessively permissive regulations that manage to deeply impact ecosystems and their communities must be reviewed; especially in countries where there are people in struggle such as Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela, as stated in the promotion of the recording material.

The launch of the album NO A LA MINA, featuring Manu Chao La Ventura, Eduardo Galeano, La Renga, Lisandro Aristimuño, Jauría, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and many other artists from Latin America, Europe and Oceania, took place a few days ago at the Mastai Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Let us remember that in Ecuador several communities are still fighting for the eradication or non-implementation of open-pit mega-mining projects that affect the Good Life; in the case of Ecuador there are very clear examples in the provinces of Zamora (with the Mirador project) and in Intag (province of Imbabura), which are part of the struggle of many peoples throughout America and the world with whom they share this resistance.

This album is another step in the NO A LA MINA project, which will continue to carry out awareness-raising and dissemination activities for the preservation and defense of pure water as an inalienable human right of present and future generations, denouncing mining projects that violate these rights. Defending water is defending life. This recording project is for the sole and exclusive benefit of activities related to No a la Mina.

Yes we can!

For water, for life, in the face of mega mining, the song calls us to fight!