'The Blood of Extraction' Victoria Launch Friday January 25th

Book Launch: The Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

by MJAC

January 24, 2017
 
Mining Justice Action Committee (MJAC) & UVIC Social Justice Studies (SJS) and the Central America Support Committee (CASC) present the Victoria launch of this important new book: 'The Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America' by Todd Gordon and Jeffrey Webber.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/
book/blood-of-extraction

Wednesday January 25th 7pm

University of Victoria

David Turpin Building, Room A-120

Author Jeffrey Webber will be the keynote speaker with a Q & A after his talk. Books will be for sale at the event and we will provide a book signing opportunity.
 
Noam Chomsky writes,

“This careful and comprehensive analysis of Canada’s economic policies and political interference in Latin America demonstrates in brutal detail the predatory and destructive role of a secondary imperialist power operating within the overarching system of subordination of the Global South to the demands of northern wealth and power. It also reveals clearly the responsibility of citizens of Canada and other dominant societies to join in the resistance of the victims to the shameful and sordid practices exposed graphically here.”

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment.

Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.

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