Protest for land and life

At Easter, around 100 protesters visited the Lake Cowal Gold Project inNew South Wales, Australia, in protest at the environmental damage caused by cyanide used in the mining process, and in support of the claim of the Wiradjuri Nation, on whose traditional lands the mine resides. Work was reportedly halted for five hours and there were eight arrests. One of the arrestees called the mine a “desecration of the Wiradjuri Sacred heartland and an environmental disaster”. This is just one of many struggles against the exploitation of traditional lands in Australia and around the world.