Sasha Lezhnev and Darren Fenwick's blog

Today, Congo activists, U.S. consumers, and the people of Congo won an incredible victory against long odds. Congress passed the Wall Street reform bill with the inclusion of a key provision on conflict minerals.  Read More »

Amid the news that the requisite 60 votes had been secured to pass the financial reform bill yesterday, we also got word that some industries that benefit from the unregulated trade in minerals from eastern Congo had undertaken a last-ditch lobbying effort to have the conflict minerals provision removed from the legislation  Read More »