Is your community fighting the 1872 Mining Law? Grassroots activists will get together at the Southwest Citizen Mining Activist Conference in Durango, Colo., May 29-31, to share war stories and talk about community organizing, national networking and technical mining issues. The conference is free to activists, and some travel scholarships are available. Call Aimee Boulanger at the Mineral Policy Center’s Southwest office at 970/382-0421 or send e-mail to mpc_sw@frontier.net.

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Southwest Citizen Mining Activist Conference

by Staff, High Country News
May 11, 1998

<h1>Southwest Citizen Mining Activist Conference</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />May 11, 1998</p> <p>Is your community fighting the 1872 Mining Law?<br /> Grassroots activists will get together at the Southwest Citizen<br /> Mining Activist Conference in Durango, Colo., May 29-31, to share<br /> war stories and talk about community organizing, national<br /> networking and technical mining issues. The conference is free to<br /> activists, and some travel scholarships are available. Call Aimee<br /> Boulanger at the Mineral Policy Center’s Southwest office at<br /> 970/382-0421 or send e-mail to<br /> mpc_sw@frontier.net.</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=187381">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Southwest Citizen Mining Activist Conference</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-130/southwest-citizen-mining-activist-conference/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=103218&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-130/southwest-citizen-mining-activist-conference/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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