Carlos Zorrilla is the founder and executive director of DECOIN, a grassroots NGO dedicated to the conservation of the cloud forests of the Intag region of northern Ecuador. The area has long been under threat by government and corporate attempts to establish a large-scale copper mine, which have been met by determined community resistance and direct action. Intag check here http://www.intagsolidarity.org/

Carlos is involved in the struggle against Ascendant's copper mine in Junin, Ecuador. He will be here with Glen Kuecker from De Pauw University, an academic and activist working with resistance movements in Latin America and around the world but focussing on the community fight against the copper mine in the fragile ecosystem of northern Ecuador.

Glen Kuecker is co-founder of the Intag Solidarity Network, which runs a human rights program in Ecuador, and is Professor of Latin American History at De Pauw University.

For more information contact Yael at
yael.zalchendler@rmit.edu.au