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• CAIM at Climate Camp 2023
  CAIM hosted a very well-attended workshop at Climate Camp in Leitrim, August 2023. Representatives of several member groups spoke at it, and 80+ strong audience asked a number of engaging questions. CAIM member Treasure Leitrim, co-host of the Climate Camp, also hosted a workshop on gold mining in Ireland. CAIM members and people in attendance were… Read more: CAIM at Climate Camp 2023
• Making Relatives Solidarity Visit
  CAIM was involved with Making Relatives, a solidarity visit to Ireland of Indigenous communities from North America affected by extractivism. Lakota Water Protectors. organisers from Standing Rock, were in Ireland in May 2023. They visited Leitrim, the Sperrins and Belfast.  You can read about the powerful event in Leitrim here. Water Walk elder Sharon Day… Read more: Making Relatives Solidarity Visit
• Right to Say No event
  CAIM member V’cenza Cirefice travelled to Antwerp in Belgium in December 2022 to take part in an event organised by CATAPA, an anti-extractivist network based between the Andes and Belgium. The event focused on communities’ “right to say no” with speakers from Ireland, Belgium, Ecuador and Brazil. The international group in attendance sent messages of… Read more: Right to Say No event
• CAIM at the Rosa Luxemburg Summer School
  CAIM members presented at the Rosa Luxemburg Summer School which was held in Fermanagh in June 2022. Activists, trade unionists and politicians from across Europe gathered for three days focusing on securing a socialist Green New Deal. A session on resisting extractivism was held with presentations around resistance to mining in Ireland, Serbia and Czech… Read more: CAIM at the Rosa Luxemburg Summer School