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Casa Pueblo (casapueblo.org) is a community-based organization in Adjuntas, a municipality of approximately 20,000 people in the lush subtropical mountains of south-central Puerto Rico. The group started as a loose gathering of people joined in opposition to a series of planned open-pit mines in the...

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Published inCasa Pueblo p. xi
Main Authors Ashwin J. Ravikumar, Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Lever Press 24.01.2022
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Summary:Casa Pueblo (casapueblo.org) is a community-based organization in Adjuntas, a municipality of approximately 20,000 people in the lush subtropical mountains of south-central Puerto Rico. The group started as a loose gathering of people joined in opposition to a series of planned open-pit mines in the 1970s. It quickly grew in number and organizational acuity to the point that by 1995, the group had put a definite stop to all mining in the region. A major watershed had been saved, and a major environmental catastrophe had been averted. But Casa Pueblo did not stop there. Instead, the group moved swiftly from
ISBN:1643150340
9781643150345
DOI:10.3998/mpub.12467264.5