Rio Tinto Roadblock: Community Organisers Threatened in Madagascar
On 2 June, thousands gathered to block the main road to Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar. This protest follows an offer of a compensation and indemnification payment by the mining company, which many say falls far short of the value of the losses suffered by...
The worst of the worst: the 2023 Glencore AGM
Photo: Richard Murphy By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, based on notes of the AGM made by Stephan Suhner, Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz Kolumbien (Switzerland-Colombia Working Group). An on-demand webcast of the AGM can be found here along with the Notice...
Resisting Anglo American: Our 2023 AGM Activities
On 26 April 2023, Anglo American held its Annual General Meeting in London. Working with friends and community leaders from Latin America, we organised a series of interventions and activities in the lead-up to this event. Communities Public Statement Working with...
28 June – Book Club Extra: Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa
Bilingual LMN Book Club Workshop on Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa byDuncan Innes (1984) Heinemann Español debajo This book provides a detailed study of Anglo American corporation until the early 1980s, showing it was steeped in extreme racial...
4 June – Resist Glencore: The Yukpa Solidarity Demonstration
Our friends at the Yukpa Solidarity Network have organised a demonstration outside the London offices of Glencore, the Anglo-Swiss mining giant that owns the Cerrejon coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. Glencore’s operations in the region have seriously harmed...
Reality Check: The Gap Between Glencore’s Rhetoric and Reality
Our friends at IndustriAll Global Union have prepared this briefing document for investors on issues of corruption, abuse of workers’ rights, and Indigenous peoples’ concerns around Glencore’s operations. Glencore-investor-brief
LMN participates in International Mission to Colombia to Share Ways to Stop Abusive Corporate Claims
May 19, 2023 Beginning May 22, twelve representatives of organizations from 8 Latin American countries and other parts of the world will visit Colombia to participate in a mission to share their experiences of standing up to the system of corporate courts that...
The Facts on Glencore
Along with Friends of the Earth Denmark (NOAH), Censat Augua Viva, Pax Christi, Fuerza Mujeras Wayuu, Kolko, PAX, ask!, COLSOL, FairFin, IndustriAll, and Colombia Solidarity Campaign we have put together this fact sheet on Glencore. As we approach the company’s...
Mexican delegation of representatives from Ejido El Bajío, Sonora, affected by Fresnillo Plc in London
Meeting with Jeremy Corbyn MP. Last week a group of 11 ejidatarios representing the El Bajío ejido, located in Sonora, Mexico, were in London, United Kingdom, to denounce the abuses of which they have been victims by the Mexican mining company Fresnillo PLC. In the El...
Lost in translation? The 2023 Anglo American AGM
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of shareholders of Anglo American plc was held on Wednesday 26 April 2023 in the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster, London Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with the assistance of Andy Higginbottom,...