PICKET!! STOP LA COLOSA GOLD MINE

2pm on FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER at the Colombian Embassy at 3 Hans Crescent, London, SW1X 0LN. 

Nearest tube: Knightsbridge.

Organised by:

Colombia Solidarity Campaign

Movimiento 22

COLOMBIA, the second most BIODIVERSE country in the world, …
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Move Beyond Coal, Now

The coal industry is racing to ensure its place in our world’s future before safer, healthier and cheaper clean energy takes hold.

Ill-equipped to compete and survive in the emerging clean energy economy it must …
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UK groups call on UN to call UK Government to book over corporate racism

Submissions to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 79th Session with regard to the United Kingdom’s  responsibility to ensure respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples overseas in
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‘Voice of responsible shareholders’ slams Vedanta

Investment research and advisory body PIRC issued a critical report on Vedanta in advance of the company’s AGM.

The report is available at http://www.pirc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Vedanta%202010.pdf.…
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India: Vedanta Orissa projects ban must be upheld

Amnesty International press release, 24 July 2011

Ongoing attempts by UK-based mining company Vedanta Resources to overturn an Indian government decision blocking a proposed bauxite mine and expansion of an alumina refinery in Orissa should …
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Slide show on nuclear power and uranium mining

London Mining Network believes that the use of uranium produces a radioactive legacy which threatens the wellbeing of thousands of generations to come.

Concern about climate change has led some commentators to support nuclear energy …
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Draft declaration on coal mining

London Mining Network, in consultation with JATAM (the Indonesian mining advocacy network) has developed the following Draft Declaration on Coal Mining. Many organisations have rightly drawn attention to coal’s contribution to destructive climate change. This
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World Rainforest Movement newsletter on mining and communities

Issue 167 – June 2011

Mining is a destructive activity that has particularly serious impacts on forests and on the communities who depend on them. It is a direct cause of deforestation and some of …
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La Colosa: the quest for El Dorado in Cajamarca, Colombia

New report from LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign

Gold prices have surged in recent years. As a result of the ‘investor friendly’ climate promoted by the Colombian government’s ‘democratic security’ policies, multinationals have been …
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British Parliamentarian calls on Anglo American to assist dying miners

Anglo American’s AGM is on Thursday, 21 April at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster.

Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Avebury has joined Rights and Accountability in Development and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for …
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Pollution row hits mining firm supplying Olympic medals

Pollution from the copper mine chosen to produce metal for the medals awarded at the 2012 London Olympics is responsible for up to 200 premature deaths each year, campaigners have claimed.

See http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/pollution-row-hits-mining-firm-supplying-olympic-medals-2267944.html.

See …
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Rio Tinto: are they telling us the whole truth?

People from communities directly affected by Rio Tinto’s activities around the world, people who work with those communities, and experts on the operations of the company, have contributed to a background report  which London Mining …
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