#imider

[tanyushenka]

Photography: “ A woman, standing, holding a wooden spindle onto which she is spinning wool.” Imider, Morocco, 1955

[tanyushenka]

Photography: “Portrait of a child, standing, at Imider in the High Atlas range of mountains.” Imider, Morocco, 1955 The original photograph and the details.

[tanyushenka]

Photography: “Portrait of a woman and child, standing, at Imider in the High Atlas range of mountains.” Imider, Morocco, 1955 The original photograph and the details.

[arifnews]

Jongeren in Zagora protesteren tegen mijnbedrijf koninklijke holding

Tientallen jongeren kwamen gisteren bijeen in de provincie Zagora om te protesteren tegen een kobaltmijn en eisten wat zij beschouwden als hun ‘recht op werk’, nadat het bedrijf dat hun land exploiteert hen heeft ontslagen. Al-Hussein Ait Haddou, een burgeractivist in de regio, zei dat het protest van de 40 jongeren een reactie is op het bedrijf die ze heeft ontslagen. De betogers vragen een…

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[ashleyjowolf]

Living strong at #Imider just #300kmSouth of #COP22 - these people are occupying a camp against mining injustices in their community in #Morocco - this is the true Morocco, the native people suffering from economic, social, environmental, and cultural strife. Don't let the guise of #UnitedNations "negotiations" fool you. #AtlasMountains #greenwashing #oppression #NoDAPL #solidarity #indigenousrights #amazigh #soccer #children #beautiful (at Imider, Ouarzazate, Morocco)

[tamezgha]

“Imider has a speech” (in Tamazight, English subtitles)

Imider est une municipalité qui compte plus de 6000 personnes dispersées dans sept villages et qui avoisine la mine d’argent la plus productive d’Afrique.

La population de la commune d’Imider souffre d’une grave pénurie d’eau potable depuis le printemps 2011, engendrée par une surexploitation de la nappe phréatique souterraine par la SMI (puit de Targit depuis 1986 et forages de Tidsa depuis 2004), ce qui a provoqué des effets néfastes sur l’agriculture, la principale activité des riverains, sachant que cette source est exploitée sans tenir compte de la loi 10-95 sur la gestion d’eau. Cet élément vital est pollué par les vestiges du processus de production par l’infiltration de substances toxiques (comme le cyanure interdit à l’échelle mondiale) dans la nappe phréatique souterraine. 

Mais si la région est riche en argent, elle compte une des populations les plus pauvres du Maroc. Les habitants d’Imider disent que s’ils en veulent à la mine, c’est parce qu’elle ne leur apporte rien, à part la pollution. En 2012, quelques-uns d’entre eux ont gravi la colline et ont coupé l’alimentation en eau de la mine. Depuis ce moment, ils occupent la colline et continuent le combat contre la Compagnie Métallurgique d’Imiter, et par voie de conséquence, contre le roi du Maroc, qui en est le principal propriétaire.

« Cela fait deux ans et demi que nous sommes ici, et personne n’entend nos cris de détresse » déclare Mina Ouzzine, 40 ans. « J’ai voté oui à la nouvelle constitution parce que j’espérais du changement, plus d’égalité. Nous sommes égaux, mais égaux dans la pauvreté. »

Sources : ALDEAH / Solidmar

Document PDF sur la situation à Imider

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[italica-zoevincenti]

Imider is a group of seven rural village in the south-east of Morocco, in the area of Ouerzazate. Berber inhabitants of these villages are leading the longest pacific protest of Morocco against exploitation and pollution of their natural resources, from the biggest silver mine of Africa, the "SMI" which is controlled by the Moroccan royal family. It is Africa most productive silver mine, helping to make Morocco the 15th-biggest silver producer in the world. But Imider residents - who are mostly ethnic Amazighs, more than half of whom live on less than a dollar a day - say the mine has drained their water reserves for decades and devastated their agricultural community. According to a September 2015 report by the Global Amazigh Congress, an international organisation focused on the rights of Amazigh minorities, the mine uses 1,555 cubic metres of water per day, which is 12 times the village daily consumption. Imider territory suffered heavily for this exploitation, in terms of serious pollution of the environment by using dangerous substances as cyanide and mercury (which hurts health, agriculture and livestock ...) and advance the desertification process. Protests started in 1996 , when residents of Imider have set up an encampment of adobe huts on top of Mount Alebban next to a key water valve for the nearby mine. For fthe last five years, the inhabitants now known as " Movement on the Road '96 " have organized sit-ins and protest marches against this serious situation of violation of their human, social and economic rights. They have cut off the flow of water from the well that supplies the silver mine. To Guard the well, dozens of villagers have built a tiny outpost on the top of the hill called “Mount Alebban” and where , in the last five years they live day and night to protect the area by the “Société Métallurgique d’Imider (SMI) from flooding their waterways. They also want SMI to provide locals with more jobs. They're still undergoing arbitrary arrests and intimidation by the Moroccan authorities, but they have no intention to quit. #reportagespotlight #imider #morocco #eco #water #environment #indigenous #africa #movementontheroad96 #pollution (presso Imider, Ouarzazate, Morocco)

[italica-zoevincenti]

Imider is a group of seven rural village in the south-east of Morocco, in the area of Ouerzazate. Berber inhabitants of these villages are leading the longest pacific protest of Morocco against exploitation and pollution of their natural resources, from the biggest silver mine of Africa, the "SMI" which is controlled by the Moroccan royal family. It is Africa most productive silver mine, helping to make Morocco the 15th-biggest silver producer in the world. But Imider residents - who are mostly ethnic Amazighs, more than half of whom live on less than a dollar a day - say the mine has drained their water reserves for decades and devastated their agricultural community. According to a September 2015 report by the Global Amazigh Congress, an international organisation focused on the rights of Amazigh minorities, the mine uses 1,555 cubic metres of water per day, which is 12 times the village daily consumption. Imider territory suffered heavily for this exploitation, in terms of serious pollution of the environment by using dangerous substances as cyanide and mercury (which hurts health, agriculture and livestock ...) and advance the desertification process. Protests started in 1996 , when residents of Imider have set up an encampment of adobe huts on top of Mount Alebban next to a key water valve for the nearby mine. For fthe last five years, the inhabitants now known as " Movement on the Road '96 " have organized sit-ins and protest marches against this serious situation of violation of their human, social and economic rights. They have cut off the flow of water from the well that supplies the silver mine. To Guard the well, dozens of villagers have built a tiny outpost on the top of the hill called “Mount Alebban” and where , in the last five years they live day and night to protect the area by the “Société Métallurgique d’Imider (SMI) from flooding their waterways. They also want SMI to provide locals with more jobs. They're still undergoing arbitrary arrests and intimidation by the Moroccan authorities, but they have no intention to quit. #reportagespotlight #imider #morocco #eco #water #environment #indigenous #africa #movementontheroad96 #pollution (presso Imider, Ouarzazate, Morocco)