This week on the program we focus on Blockade IMARC, an online conference and actions series focussed on resisting extractive industries, colonialism and capitalism.

IMARC stands for the international mining and resources conference, and listeners may remember last year’s significant protests against the conference in Melbourne.

We hear extracts from the panel “Extractivism 101 and Latin American Perspectives Part 1,” featuring speakers Dandara from MST, the landless worker’s movement in Brazil, and Dani from a grassroots movement against neoliberal extractivism in Chile.

To open the program, we speak with Marisol Salinas, Mapuche indigenous woman and activist, who has been organising and speaking at the conference.

Video recordings from the conference can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/ShutDownIMARCAlliance/