With our friends ABColombia, Peru Support Group and War on Want, we’re pleased to be hosting the UK leg of an international tour of speakers from Colombia and Peru. These speakers, who come to us from Indigenous and mining-affected communities, will be speaking...
London Mining Network supports the following statement from Yes to Life No to Mining. To sign the statement as an organisation or individual, please see their website. We, Yes to Life No to Mining (YLNM), and the other undersigned participants of the Second Thematic...
LMN is delighted to announce our final Resisting Mining Book Club of 2023, an interactive and collaborative discussion of Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary, edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta. About the...
Indigenous communities in Peru and Colombia are reporting a devastation of their land, water and sacred spaces as a result of coal and copper mining respectively by British-registered multinational Glencore PLC. Come and hear directly from indigenous communities from...
For more on the Mariana Dam Disaster and its links to Aberfan, see our recent article in New Internationalist To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Mariana disaster (read our 2017 report The River is Dead for more information) we have hosted Leticia Oliveira and...
Join us for a screening of the documentary “Cursed Legacy: From Colonisation to Neoliberalism” followed by a panel discussion to mark the 8th anniversary of the Samarco Dam Disaster – the worst environmental catastrophe in Brazilian history. On November 5,...
This article originally appeared on ojala.mx. Special thanks to Dawn Marie Paley for allowing us to repost it here. See the original post here. A saguaro cactus at twilight in the Ejido el Bajío, Sonora, Mexico in September, 2023. Photo: Giuliano Salvatore –...
español abajo We resume a close reading of this book, from Chapter 6 to the end (Part 1 was on 28 June). In the early decades of the twentieth century, Anglo American set up a financial conglomerate to control many underground mines. Its huge profitability was founded...
London Mining Network will be at The World Transformed with our friends War on Want this year. On 9 October we’ll be co-hosting the panel Resisting Green Colonialism: Learning From Resistance Movements Globally. If you’re attending the festival, join us on...
LMN is delighted to announce our fifth Resisting Mining Book Club 2023 with guest speakers Orrin Pilkey, Keith Pilkey, Norma Longo and Hannah Smith, who will be speaking about their co-edited book Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining (Duke University Press)....
On 19 September, friends of London Mining Network will be hosting a webinar following up on the #StopISDS Report published earlier this year. Registration is free and open to all, with Spanish/English interpretation provided. The webinar will take place at 4pm UK...
La Colosa Open-Pit Gold Mining Project: an imminent threat to climate change and local communities in Colombia. La Colosa is AngloGold Ashanti’s (AGA) proposed open-pit gold mining project in Tolima, Colombia. This exploratory project threatens to devastate the...