I'm not sure you heard of this:

Barroso is a region in northern Portugal, classified as world heritage for agriculture by the FAO - United Nations, one of the few lef in Europe where sustainable farming practices are still the rule.

A canadian/english mining company now wants to destroy it, by opening the largest open air lithium mine in Europe. This will feed German and French electric car production, with a so called value chain crossing all Europe, up to the swedish regions where another war is ongoing, against ore mining and car batter factories.

They have been called lithium wars, and resistance is heating up.

We currently are waiting for the 31 of May, when the Environmental Agency from the government will make a final decision on the Mine, and unfortunately, a YES-GO is expected. There will be resistance!

I've covered it for the BBC Radio 4's The Scramble for Rare Earths “The Hidden Paradox”

(altough the BBC is not exactly on our side)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cdt6

There is also this awesome doc by my friend, done after the Zapatistas were in Barroso:

https://videos.coletivos.org/w/j3RNVPrC8NfKQSpq32A7RP

If you like documentaries, and understand Portguese, go listen to my audio documentary:

https://archive.org/details/enterro-da-mineracao-pt

This video is about a resistance climate kamp "In defense of Barroso", against the biggest lithium open pit mine of Europe planned to the north of portugal. Yes to LIFE. No to MINES.

you can follow @barrososemminas or @rcinfo for regular updates on the lithium wars in Barroso.

Altough we know that historically Europe has been guilty in the exploitation of the worlds resources, it now is turning inside, selling it's own peasants and native peoples to the trans-nacional buisnesses. This in no way can be confused with historical reparations, as we do not wish to impose the brunt of the so-called green transition on any people's or ecossistems. The only option is Degrowth and the end of consumerism and extractivism, not Green Capitalism and electric cars. This just helps the fossil and gas economies to trhive, by on the one hand, not offering a real solution, and on the other, trying to create a mentality which says that opposition to green capitalism is reactionary.