If you are able please can we all role out to support this most vital campaign to protect our world’s wilderness from an unnecessary and irrelevant mining operation.   PRESS ADVISORY: October 18, 2010 CONTACTS: Lucy Pearce, Earthworks: 020 3239 8874 Red Gold: Inside the effort to protect the world’s greatest wild sockeye salmon fishery

Introduction: A column by Nicholas Kristof, of the New York Times questions whether fair trade does more harm than good. Kristof doesn’t like sweatshops, but he puts for the perspective that creating more jobs would better serve the poor people in the developing world than higher paying, fair trade jobs. This resulted in an email

An excellent piece by Al-Jazeera on small scale mining. Whether coal (as in this case) copper, tin or for the jeweller their gold. The majority dignify our lifestyle with the sweat of their desperation Working Man’s Death – GENERAL – Al Jazeera English.