En Español debajo El Melon is a semi-rural area in the mountains of Valparaiso in central Chile, with a population of around 12,000 people. Since 2003, the British company Anglo American operates ‘El Soldado’, a nearby open pit copper mine with a...
17 January, 18:00 – 20:00, Online Event – register now At this event, author Nandini Sundar will give a short presentation on the main themes of the book and will take questions from the audience. There will be space for discussion and sharing ideas...
A South African court has stopped a historic class action of 140,000 women and children from proceeding after the Zambian community came forward to seek redress for decades of lead contamination. “This decision compounds a historic wrong, not yet remedied. Thousands...
Early Day Motion (EDM) 136 outlines the human and environmental abuses and concerns of indigenous communities in Colombia and Peru. We as UK citizens have an obligation and a responsibility to these communities as Glencore is registered on the London Stock Exchange...
This petition is now closed. The letter, with 260 signatures, was delivered electronically to the executive board of Glencore, the Presidential office of Colombia and the Colombian Chancellery. (en español debajo) Glencore, the multi-billion dollar Swiss mining giant,...
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 –...