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Meet the Badass Grandma Standing Up To Big Mining

ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE

A Colorado-based gold-mining company wanted to take Maxima Acuña’s land. But the feisty Peruvian grandmother has turned into their fiercest foe.

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Courtesy The Goldman Environmental Prize

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