This webinar will take place on Zoom with simultaneous French-English-Spanish interpretation.
To celebrate the end of our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign and launch our new legacy giving program, MiningWatch will be hosting a roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current issues in their struggles for mining justice, share visions for the future, and learn how your support can make a lasting difference.
🗓 Date: Tuesday, November 25 2025
🕒 Time: 6-7pm EST
📍 Format: Live webinar (virtual)
Register here: https://bit.ly/communities-first-miningwatch
WHAT TO EXPECT:
- A moderated roundtable featuring MiningWatch’s frontline partners
- A spotlight on key issues and developments in the struggle for mining justice, recent successes and strategies
- The formal closing of our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign - updates on how it went, and a big thank you to our donors
- The launch of our Legacy Giving Program, ensuring that MiningWatch Canada’s mission is sustained into the future
- Opportunities for audience Q&A, reflections, and engagement
This webinar is designed as a moment of dialogue, reflection, and forward momentum — bringing together those who have been active in the field, supporting the work, and envisioning what comes next.
PANELISTS:
Louis St-Hilaire is the President and founder of the Regroupement de protection des lacs de la Petite-Nation (Petite-Nation Lake Protection Group), and the spokesperson and founder of the Coalition Québécoise des lacs incompatibles avec l’activité minière (Quebec Coalition of Lakes Incompatible with Mining Activities - QLAIM). He was deeply involved in the referendum on Lomiko Metals “La Loutre” graphite mining project, in which citizens in 5 municipalities voted overwhelmingly against the mine. Louis is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Québec meilleure mine coalition.
Hortencia Zhagui is a representative of the Board of Potable Water Administrators of Victoria del Portete and Tarqui in Ecuador. The Indigenous and campesino communities that form the organization are facing risks from Canadian mining companies in the Páramo de Kimsakocha, a high-altitude Andean wetland that provides water for tens of thousands of people and is essential for biodiversity conservation. Hortencia is also a member of the Kimsakocha Women’s School of Agroecology, which promotes food sovereignty in the region.
Tita Kara is the former program manager at the Civil Society Forum of Tonga (CSFT), a national umbrella NGO representing 36 Civil Society organizations and 144 community-based organisations in the Kingdom of Tonga. CSFT is the main civil society organization working to raise awareness about the impacts of deep sea mining in Tonga, which is a sponsor country of deep sea mining in international waters of the Pacific through a partnership with The Metals Company. Tita has been campaigning against deep sea mining since 2012.