Red Mexicana de Afectados por la Minería

Description

Red Mexicana de Afectadas/os por la Mineria, known as REMA, is a Mexican network of communities and organizations fighting the extractive mining model.

It was founded in June 2008 in Temacapulin, Jalisco, during a meeting of the Mexican movement against dams, by people and communities harmed by the social and environmental impacts of mining. Its goal is to defend territory, exercise collective rights, and challenge the idea that mining can ever be green, clean, sustainable, or socially responsible.

REMA works mainly through prevention, identifying mining concessions before extraction starts so communities can make informed decisions and resist projects on more equal footing. It also documents mining’s damage to health and the environment, builds legal, technical, and media alliances for territorial defense, counters industry narratives about the extractive model, and supports alternative, non-capitalist ways of life in affected communities.

It links local struggles across Mexico and abroad, including founding the Mesoamerican Movement Against the Mining Extractive Model, and it works in regions such as Colima, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Durango, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, and Sonora. Two of its founders, Bety Carino and Mariano Abarca, were killed in 2009 and 2010 for their work in defense of their communities, and REMA continues to demand justice and keep their memory alive.