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Atillah Springer is a journalist, activist and blogger from Trinidad and Tobago and a member of a protest movement which, earlier this year, succeeded in driving the aluminium industry giant Alcoa out of a community in rural Trinidad where they had proposed to establish a smelter under somewhat dubious circumstances.
In this podcast I talk with Atillah about the movement's use of the Internet in their organising activities.
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Some useful links:
No Smelters in T&T web site
Rights Action Group blog
Smelta Karavan web site
Saving Iceland - web site of anti-smelter allies in Iceland
Atillah with fellow anti-smelter activists in Iceland
An activist with the Smelta Karavan, a mobile unit which visits communities to share information and build solidarity
A resident of Union Village, a rural area in Trinidad where another smelter is set to be established by Alutrint
Portrait of Atillah by caribbeanfreephoto
Other images courtesy Atillah Springer
Not for nothing, but all they did was effectively move the smelter to another community – and apparently abandon the cause.