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Saving Iceland Conference Declaration 2007

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This declaration was made in consensus by dozens of people attending the first Saving Iceland conference, 'Global Consequences of Heavy Industry and Large Dams' on July 7-8, 2007. [Video report part 1 | 2]
Photo gallery of the conference.

We are gathered in Olfus, Iceland, we are people from more than fifteen different countries and five continents. We are here to share our experiences of heavy industry, dams, transnational companies and other expressions of globalisation, in Iceland, in Brazil, in South Africa, in Denmark, in Canada, in England, Germany, India, Trinidad and Tobago and many other countries.
We are not professional protestors. Unlike the well-paid corporate lobbyists and spindoctors that try to sell you heavy industry, none of us gets payed to be here. We are ordinary people, we are teachers, nurses, youth workers, students, shopworkers, fathers, mothers. We are here because we care. The Icelandic wilderness is unique. It is the largest in Europe and one of the few wild places left on this continent. It’s beauty and uniqueness and fire and ice are a heritage we must preserve and must defend. It is the heritage and responsibility and privilege of all Icelanders, and all Europeans, and all humans...

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Videos about the horrors of bauxite mining

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Jamaica Bauxite Environmental Organization - Excellent video section showing the horrors of the mining of bauxite...

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'The Age of Aluminum' by Mimi Sheller

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Atilla Lerato Sheller
Activists Attilah Springer (left) and Lerato Maria
Maregele (center). SI conference July '07.

Mimi Sheller is a visiting associate professor in the sociology and anthropology department at Swarthmore College. She attended the Saving Iceland conference in 2007.

I grew up in an aluminum-sided suburban house. I carried a colorful aluminum lunchbox to school, with a sandwich wrapped in aluminum foil. Like everyone I know, I drink from aluminum cans, travel in cars, planes, and bikes full of aluminum parts, and cook in aluminum pots and pans. This versatile, ubiquitous material is all around us, all the time, but seems almost invisible because it has become, literally, part of the furniture (even the kitchen sink). The surprising story of this mercurial metallic fabric of everyday life - in our homes, skyscrapers, cars, airplanes, utensils, fasteners, cosmetics, space ships, and bombs - encapsulates the making of global modernity, the creation of multinational corporations, the rise of the U.S. as a world power, the modernization of warfare, and the invention of suburbia, science-fiction futurism, and the American Dream.

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UC Rusal to expand operations in Jamaica

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From the Express 2007-06-20:
UC RUSAL TO EXPAND ALUMINIUM OPERATIONS.

Kingston, Jamaica: United Company Rusal—the world’s biggest aluminium producer—said last week it hopes to expand production in the Caribbean by boosting capability of two bauxite plants in Jamaica using coal-generated power.

UC Rusal’s representative in Jamaica, Igor Dorofeev, said the company plans to build two coal-generated power plants to boost annual alumina production at its Alpart and Windalco plants and provide electricity to the Caribbean island’s energy grid.

Jamaica is the world’s fifth largest producer of bauxite, the principal ore used in aluminium.

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