#imider

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

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

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.

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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)

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)