experiences, offer solidarity and hope, and share practical ideas for how women could be mobilising locally.

Encouragingly at the end of the exchange programme, participants reported that they felt less isolated and alone, that they had deepened understanding of their problems and their roots in Big Coal, and that they were ready to go back and strengthen their struggles at home. Women resolved to fight back by organising women in communities, building wider alliances, taking legal action and mounting campaigns against corporates that are polluting environments and creating devastating social impacts for women and communities.

Nonhlanhla Mgomezulu from the Highveld Environmental Justice Network said, “We have now consulted with the Msukaligwa municipality to stop illegal mining activities in our area as people are being injured and dying doing this dangerousFormer Saint Mary's University offensive lineman and Charles P. Allen High School coach Jean-Michel Sylvain passed away Saturday after less than a year battling osteosarcoma, a type of cancer. He was 41-years-old.

Sylvain was part of the team that won SMU the Vanier Cup, the championship trophy of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), in 2001.

"Jean-Michel was a very kind, considerate, always smiling, he was always positive, a gentle giant in the true sense of the words and he cared abut everybody," said Ryan Jones, a friend and former teammate of Sylvain's.

'When he talked, everyone listened'

Jones was a quarterback for the Huskies at Saint Mary's and says he and Sylvain were part of a core group of players who all played together from 1997 to 2001. He says Sylvain was a