On November
9th 2013, thousands of protesters in dozens of marches took the streets around
Greece demanding that the Skouries forest is saved from toxic gold mining and
that the prosecutions of the people resisting the extraction are stopped. At
the same time, several events were organized around the world in support and
solidarity with the Skouries struggle!
The message is clear: We are not "extremists", as the Greek government would have it, we are everyday people of all ages, social groups, creeds and nationalities, united by the love for our land, our forests, our water, united by our desire to safeguard this planet for the sake of our children, united by our resistence to a commodifying view of nature that puts individual profit over collective welfare.
In Bucharest, Romania, where the people
have a struggle of their own to save Rosia
Montana from a similar disastrous mining project, protesters raised banners
outside the Greek embassy.
