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Rio Tinto ONLINE WEEK OF ACTION!
London Mining Network Apr 1, 2020It’s British-Australian multinational Rio Tinto’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday 8th April. We can’t protest it in person, but we can online in solidarity with affected communities.Why are we doing this, especially during these … Read more The post Rio[…]
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Resisting Rio Tinto: clean up your mess!
London Mining Network Apr 1, 2020British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is gaining a reputation for not cleaning up its toxic mining mess – in Papua New Guinea, West Papua and Madagascar, to name a few. Most recently, the government of … Read more The post[…]
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Communities demanding redress from Rio Tinto
London Mining Network Apr 1, 2020Representatives from Rio Tinto-affected communities or from supporting organisations from Bougainville, Madagascar and US were going to travel to the UK for a week of action around Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting (AGM). Obviously the … Read more The post[…]
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Bishop of Brumadinho: ‘mining companies have split communities’
London Mining Network Mar 16, 2020In recent weeks, Dom Vicente Ferreira, Catholic Bishop of Brumadinho in Brazil, was in Europe speaking about the continuing impacts of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse there in January 2019, which killed 272 people. The … Read more The post[…]
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New death threats against Wayuu Women’s Force
London Mining Network Mar 12, 2020New death threats have been issued against LMN’s friends in indigenous Colombian organisation Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (Wayuu Women’s Force). Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu has been heavily involved in the struggle for justice in the … Read more The post[…]
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PRESS RELEASE: GCM postpones AGM *again*, citing security concerns
London Mining Network Mar 9, 20209th March 2020, 7.30pm, for immediate releaseLondon Mining Network and Phulbari Solidarity Group JOINT PRESS RELEASE GCM Resources have just announced the postponment of their London AGM tomorrow, again. This is the second time … Read more The post PRESS RELEASE:[…]
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The climate revolution is a feminist one!
London Mining Network Mar 8, 2020Chilean activist and LMN volunteer Javiera Martinez took part in an action with XR in central London today to mark International Women’s Day. They blocked Waterloo Bridge for the action that made the links between … Read more The post[…]
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PRESS RELEASE: GCM hastily reschedules AGM
London Mining Network Mar 6, 2020*UPDATE: GCM Resources have CANCELLED their AGM tomorrow. At 5.38pm they released a notice citing ‘security concerns’ again as the reason for cancellation. We will be responding to this in due course.*London Mining Network … Read more The post PRESS[…]
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PRESS RELEASE: New report names top British companies responsible for toxic mining legacies
London Mining Network Feb 19, 2020For immediate release 19/02/20BHP and Rio Tinto have a long history of extracting minerals then pulling out, leaving devastation in their wake. Climate justice organisation London Mining Network reveals the extent of this in … Read more The post PRESS[…]
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Christian Aid Ireland slams Cerrejón Coal
London Mining Network Feb 18, 2020Christian Aid Ireland has published a damning report about Cerrejón Coal’s impacts on the communities around its operations. Cerrejón is owend by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP Group and Glencore.The Republic of Ireland’s only … Read more The post Christian[…]
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‘It is not drought, it is looting’: the Chilean community taking on Anglo American
London Mining Network Feb 14, 2020Chilean activist Javiera Martinez writes about residents of the town of El Melón, who are occupying a well to protest a British mining company’s diversion of essential drinking water‘It is not drought, it is … Read more The post ‘It[…]
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‘Wasn’t Mariana enough? Marking one year since Brumadinho
London Mining Network Jan 27, 2020“On 25 January 2019 I lost my father and my friends. Many family members worked and work for mining companies. We have tried to make an inventory of our collective losses but nothing can … Read more The post ‘Wasn’t[…]
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PRESS RELEASE: London vigil to mark first anniversary of Brumadinho disaster
London Mining Network Jan 22, 2020For immediate release: 22/01/20Events around the world are being organised to mark first anniversary of Brumadinho’s catastrophic mining disaster, in the context of a rising culture of corporate impunity in BrazilOn 25th January … Read more The post PRESS RELEASE:[…]
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LMN and the Global Tailings Review
London Mining Network Jan 13, 2020After the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Brazilian mining company Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho on 25 January 2019, the Church of England and Swedish state pension funds started to gather data on existing … Read more The post[…]
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Anniversary vigil for Brumadinho mining disaster
London Mining Network Jan 6, 2020Friday, 24 January 2020 from 16:00-18:00Embassy of Brazil, 14-16 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5BLOn 25 January, 2019, a catastophic tailings dam collapse took place at the Brumadinho iron ore mine operated by Brazilian … Read more The post Anniversary vigil[…]