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A global network of and for communities, organisations and networks saying Yes to Life, No to Mining and advancing post-extractivism. linktr.ee/ylnm
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ylnm.bsky.social @ylnm.bsky.social · Feb 7
Yes to Life No to Mining (YLNM) is a global solidarity network standing up for the right to say NO to mining.
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La minería avanza bajo falsas promesas de “desarrollo” y “soluciones verdes”, destruyendo el agua.

Las comunidades tienen derecho a entender estos impactos —y a decir no. YLNM se solidariza con quienes resisten y construyen alternativas post-extractivas.

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Por qué decimos No a la minería | Sí a la vida No a la minería
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February 4, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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En Chile, Argentina y Bolivia, comunidades indígenas defienden el agua y la vida frente a la extracción de litio en la Puna de Atacama.

La justicia climática no sacrifica territorios. El agua vale más que el litio.

Descubre el caso emblemático aquí: yestolifenotomining.org/pueblos-de-l...
Pueblos de la Puna Atacameña resisten al extractivismo pese al avance de la minería de litio | Yes to Life No to Mining
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January 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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🌍 ¿Qué está pasando con nuestras organizaciones miembros en el mundo?

Somos una red global de solidaridad que defiende el derecho a decir no a la minería y promueve alternativas post-extractivas.

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January 16, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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🌍 What’s happening with our members across the globe?

We are a global solidarity network, standing up for our Right to Say No to mining and supporting life-sustaining, post-extractive alternatives.

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Solstice Greetings from Yes to Life No to Mining
We are a global solidarity network standing up for our Right to Say No to mining and advancing life-sustaining, post-extractive alternatives.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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📣Alongside 49 signatories worldwide, we condemn the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia.

Read our statement:
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International statement in solidarity with Misael Socarrás Ipuana and defenders of land, the environment and human rights in La Guajira, Colombia - London Mining Network
London Mining Network - Holding the Mining Industry to Account
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December 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Mining expands under false promises of “development” and “green solutions,” destroying water, land, cultures and livelihoods.Communities have the right to know impacts — and to say no.YLNM stands with those resisting extraction and building just alternatives.

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Why we say No to Mining | Yes to Life No to Mining
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December 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Otra COP termina y expone el costo de la “transición verde”: la minería de “minerales críticos” destruye ecosistemas, contamina el agua y afecta a comunidades. La justicia climática exige frenar la minería y defender los derechos indígenas.
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The delusion of mining for the climate | Yes to Life No to Mining
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December 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Friends of the Earth joined environmental defenders from the Sperrins, Peru and London at the Mines and Money Conference in London. Together, we reject the extractive industry being pushed on these communities by global mining corporations, and say 'Yes to Life, No to Mining!'.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Another COP ends, exposing the true cost of the “green transition”: mining for “critical minerals” destroys ecosystems, poisons water, and harms communities.

Climate justice means stopping destructive mining and defending Indigenous rights.

Full article: yestolifenotomining.org/latest-news/...
The delusion of mining for the climate | Yes to Life No to Mining
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December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Lithium in Serbia: People Power topples corporate greed - read our Aleksadra's take on this big news in the @foeeurope.bsky.social article below
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Lithium in Serbia: People Power topples corporate greed - Friends of the Earth Europe
Amazing news for the people’s resistance against irresponsible mining: After decades of protest by Serbian civil society, the multinational Rio Tinto has halted its lithium exploration project in Jada...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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On Saturday we concluded a week of work with the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and the Extractive Economy with an event at the People’s Summit at Belém do Pará.

We affirmed our collective commitment to a socio-ecological and systemic transformation that confronts the dominant “green” transition.
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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A tragedy connected to the transition minerals. Our thoughts go to the affected communities and families 🙏🏽
guadaluperodriguez.bsky.social Guadalupe Rodríguez @guadaluperodriguez.bsky.social · Nov 17
❗️🔴 At least 32 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (#DRC), according to officials, after a bridge at a copper and cobalt mine collapsed due to overcrowding @ylnm.bsky.social #yestolifenotomining aje.io/pxxsru
Dozens killed in DR Congo after bridge collapses at copper, cobalt mine
Deaths came after miners rushed a makeshift bridge at the Kalando mine in southeastern Lualaba province, official says.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Today Ecuador votes.

"Yes" means military bases, billionaires-only politics, and an attack on the hard-won rights of communities and Nature.

"No" means no to regression. "No" means Life.

We stand in solidarity with our members in Ecuador who have fought so hard and for so long. La lucha continua✊
In photo: Crowds in support of Leonidas Iza’s candidacy for the president, February 2025. Source: Frente Nacional Antiminero.
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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#YesToLifeNoToMining #SíalaVidaNoalaMinería #SimàVidaNãoaMineraçao at the Global Climate March / Marcha Global Pelle Clima, Belém do Pará, 15 November 2025. #CúpulaDosPovos #COP30
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Today is the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice.

We’re in Belém, Brazil at the #COP30 climate talks, with one message: From the Amazon to the world - end environmental racism and inequality.

Climate justice now!
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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SIGN ON TO THE TSF-MINING DECLARATION:
Towards a Socio-Ecological and Systemic Transformation in Response to “Green” Transition Narratives

From the People's Summit at Belém do Pará, for the Rights of Peoples and the Planet! ✊🏼🌍

Read the declaration and sign:
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November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Yes to Life, No to Mining members from the Philippines, Ecuador, and Brazil are standing together to expose the violence, criminalisation, and impunity faced by those who defend their lands, waters, and ways of life.
🌍 Defending the defenders means defending democracy, justice, and the living Earth.
Defending Life, Defending Land: Communities Call Out Mining’s Human Rights Abuses in the Lead-Up to COP30. Logo of Yes to Life No to Mining. “As deadly typhoons flood communities in the Philippines, we see how mining in our mountains has worsened every disaster. When forests are stripped and soil destroyed, floods sweep away lives and livelihoods, leaving the poorest to suffer most. From the Philippines to the world, mining has brought grief and dispossession. When we defend our lands and waters, we are defending life itself—but defenders are silenced while corporations walk free. At COP30, we call for accountability and the courage to choose life over profit, justice over impunity, and solidarity over silence.” -Ana Celestial, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment Philippines and YLNM member. “The crime in Brumadinho showed the world that mining companies operate with violence and impunity, while communities pay with their lives. From Brazil to the Philippines to Ecuador, we are united in saying: enough. To defend the defenders is to defend our right to live with dignity and to keep believing in the future.” -Carolina de Moura, Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Sociales y Ambientales, Brumadinho, Brazil and YLNM member. “In the last few months, Ecuadorian President, Daniel Noboa has begun the wholesale decapitation of our civil society by politically persecuting dozens of Indigenous and Nature Rights defenders who’ve had success in protecting areas from mining and helping their rural farming communities to become more self-reliant and sustainable. His government is using military force—at times lethally—against peaceful protestors, weakening the public sector, freezing bank accounts, and treating defenders as terrorists and Constitutional Court judges as enemies of the people.“ -José Cueva, Environmental and Social Observatory of Northern Ecuador (OMASNE), National Anti-Mining Front and YLNM member. Mining companies and complicit governments are violating the most basic of human rights- the right to life, to water, to self-determination. Communities who defend these rights are branded as criminals while corporations that destroy rivers, forests, and livelihoods are protected by law. Defending the defenders means defending democracy, justice, and the living Earth. We say yes to life and no to the system that kills those who protect it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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“Green” mining is the same old extractivism — destroying land, water and lives in the name of climate action.

At the People’s COP in Belém, members of #YesToLifeNoToMining from Chile, Indonesia and the Pacific are calling out #TheGreenLie - the myth that mining can solve the climate crisis.
The Green Lie: Communities Expose the Myth of “Green” Mining at COP30. Logo of Yes to Life No to Mining. “We call on all those present at COP30 to stop promoting the narrative of ‘green’ extractivism. A truly sustainable energy transition must be built from the grassroots — led by local communities and supported by scientists — not through expanding mining and destroying forests in Sulawesi, or polluting the rivers, coasts, and seas that sustain life and livelihoods in Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua.” - Muhammad Al Amin, Executive Director of local NGO Walhi South Sulawesi and YLNM member. “Deep sea mining is sold as vital for the ‘green’ transition and global security, but both claims are false. This is not about climate solutions—it’s about profit and militarisation. Mining the deep will cause irreversible damage to ocean life and ecosystems. For Pacific peoples, the ocean is life itself. We stand with them in calling for a global ban.” - Natalie Lowrey, Deep Sea Mining Campaign and YLNM member. “Global pressure for transition minerals has led to the expansion of mining frontiers without proper recognition of the Right to Say No of Indigenous communities and without sufficient knowledge of the impacts of Lithium extraction in new salt flats. The climate crisis worsened by transition mineral extraction cannot be solved without the full engagement of local communities, civil society, and scientists." - Ramon Balcázar, Plurinational Observatory of the Andean Salt Flats (OPSAL) Chile and YLNM member. “Green extractivism” is not climate justice. It’s the next phase of the same destructive system, one that treats land and water as expendable and communities as collateral. As YLNM’s Principles affirm, the wellbeing of people and the planet depends on keeping the Earth whole, not turning lands, waters and oceans into sacrifice zones. From the salt flats of Chile to the forests of Indonesia to the Pacific Ocean floor, people are rising to yes to life and no to mining. yestolifenotomining.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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HAPPENING NOW at #copdopovo (The People's COP) in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

A message from one of Yes to Life No to Mining's founding members, Mariana Gomez (Colombia):
"When it is to do with mining affected community cases, sharing stories of resistance and exchanging strategies never gets old!"
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Join YLNM at our public event ‘Building a Post Extractive Future’ In Belém at the People’s COP this Wednesday 12 November, 10:15am - 12:45pm!

Únete a Sí a la Vida No a la Minería en nuestro evento público en Belém durante la COP do Povos!

Junte-se à no nosso evento público durante a COP do Povo!
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"Communities Stand for the Rights of Nature: From Ecuador to Ireland and the Balkans to Brazil, Grassroots Voices Unite in Belém"

Read the full statement: yestolifenotomining.org/latest-news/...

#RightsofNature #DefendTheEarth #PostExtractiveFuture
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Communities Stand for the Rights of Nature From Ecuador to Ireland and the Balkans to Brazil, Grassroots Voices Unite in Belém Yes to Life No to Mining logo “In Serbia, we have been running three complaints to the Bern Convention to protect the Valley of River Jadar, Homolje Mountains and Nature in Bosilegrad region from destructive mining. The complaints are grounded in Rights of Nature resulting in one o project being stopped. Rights of Nature is a genuine environmental and climate solution, and we trust that enshrining them into the national and international frameworks will contribute to long-term fair and just relations between humans and Nature for the benefit of all." - Mirko Nikolić from Earth Thrive, Balkan Centre for the Rights of Nature and Yes to Life No to Mining (YLNM) member "“Ecuador is days away from a constitutional crisis. On November 16, we Ecuadorians will vote whether or not to give the government of Daniel Noboa the chance to shred our constitution—a global precedent setter in Indigenous, Collective, and Nature Rights—to replace it with a vaguely written advertisement for international mining companies to turn some of Earth’s most mega-diverse remaining forests into catastrophic mining camps.” - Jose Cueva, Environmental and Social Observatory of Northern Ecuador, (OMASNE), the National Anti-Mining Front & YLNM Member "We don’t defend Nature because it’s useful to us. We defend Nature because we are part of it.” - Lynda Sullivan, Co-coordinator, Ireland Logo Yes to Life No to Mining Mining extractivism is entirely based on violating the Rights of Nature, killing living beings and their webs of life. There cannot be a just transformation out of this destructive system without a full recognition of all living beings' rights to live free from human caused harm. No one is free until everyone is free! Yes to Life No to Mining shares stories of resistance to extractive destruction, where post-extractive futures are imagined and lived. From Nigeria to the Philippines, from Papua New Guinea to Ecuador, a life-sustaining world is possible.
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Support the relief work in the Philippines hit by Typhoon #TinoPH. Resources are urgently needed.

Brigada Kalikasan is accepting donations to support communities heavily affected by the typhoon. All proceeds will go toward providing basic necessities for relief operations.

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Call for donations for communities affected by typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi). (Images of the typhoon's impacts on the communities in the Philippines.) Instapay QR-code. PayPal logo. Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines info@cecphils.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Escuche a representantes de nuestra red en Belém do Pará hablando en el podcast con Radio Temblor:
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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YLNM will be at COP30 in Belém do Pará, closely following discussions on mining and extraction in the Amazon and Latin America. It’s an opportunity to strengthen our fight for a more just and sustainable world, alongside communities, Indigenous peoples, and social movements who resist every day.
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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We stand together for life, justice, and solidarity beyond borders.

We support communities resisting mining, expose violations and greenwashing, challenge exploitation, and promote local, systemic alternatives that respect Earth’s limits.

Another world built on care and equality is possible.
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM