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Beyond BHP: breaking free from the world’s biggest mining giant
Join us 13-20 October for eight days of art, discussion and protest with leading environmental human rights defenders visiting London from Latin America to share their experiences resisting the world’s largest mining company, which has …
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Ten years on from the independent evaluation of Cerrejon Coal
Armed eviction of the residents of Tabaco, La Guajira, Colombia, 9 August 2001
Ten years ago, the report of an Independent Panel of Inquiry into the impacts of Cerrejon Coal was published. Cerrejon is Latin …
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FILM: Marikana’s Precious Metal
Precious Metal: Marikana film released online
16 August marked the sixth anniversary of the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, when security forces opened fire on striking mine-workers in the most lethal use of force by …
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Letter of solidarity from Chile to Marikana
On 16 August, around 60 people participated in Marikana Solidarity Collective’s (Marikana Miners Solidarity Campaign, Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum, Decolonising Environmentalism and London Mining Network) vigil of the sixth anniversary of the Marikana Massacre in …
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Fear and loathing in La Guajira
Forced eviction of the community of Tabaco to make way for the Cerrejon coal mine, 9 August 2001
Report by Richard Solly of Colombia Solidarity Campaign and Co-ordinator of London Mining Network
It is sad …
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When You Strike the Women, You Strike A Rock
Learning from women’s organising in apartheid South Africa to present-day ahead of the sixth anniversary of 2012’s Marikana Massacre
By Yula Burin
Marikana Solidarity Collective marked South Africa’s Women’s Day on 9 August 2018 with …
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Madagascar: harassment of protesters against Rio Tinto operations
London Mining Network’s friends in Malagasy rights organisation TANY have published a statement deploring the judicial harassment of people protesting against the impacts of Rio Tinto subsidiary QMM’s operations near Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. See The …
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Open letter to Cerrejon Coal
On 24 July, an open letter was sent by email to Lina Echeverri of Carbones del Cerrejon (Cerrejon Coal), the mining company operating the vast Cerrejon opencast coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. It is …
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Protests against Antofagasta at Pelambres in Chile
In response to a serious contamination incident at Minera Los Pelambres (Antofagasta) on July 16th, over 100 inhabitants of Cuncumén, a small community in the municipality of Salamanca in North-Central Chile, protested by blocking the …
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Marikana massacre: 6th anniversary events
This August will be the sixth anniversary of South Africa’s Marikana massacre.
On 16th August 2012, 34 striking miners were killed by South African police at London-listed mining company Lonmin’s platinum mine.
To show solidarity
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‘Ties are stronger now’: Spanish campaigners unite around Atalaya AGM
On Wednesday 27th June, Spanish campaigners attended the AGM of London-listed mining company Atalaya Mining to raise concerns about the company’s operations across Spain.
Atalaya, which is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), is …
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