MOSACAT was founded in 2019 after activists from several different movements fighting for women’s, housing, workers’, and environmental rights joined in solidarity to form a unified collective. Many had met while protesting an illegal mining project. MOSACAT’s activism successfully chased out the miners, shut down the project, and designated the land a protected nature reserve, the group says. It was shortly thereafter that a friend of the group, who now serves as a member of Chile’s national congress, tipped them off about Google’s data center project and urged them to look at its projected
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