- Saturday 13 October, SOAS, London: Celebrating 516 years Indigenous Resistance, organised by Plataforma 12 de Octubre
- Sunday 14 and Monday 15 October, events in Manchester and Newcastle
- Wednesday 17 October, 10am to 11am outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London SW1: demonstration against BHP as it prepares for its AGM inside the building
- Wednesday 17 October, 6pm to 9pm, UCL Institute of Education, London: Public event with speakers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and the USA and creative contributions from Threepenny Festival Arts Association
- Friday 19 October, 4pm to 8pm, UCL, London: academic symposium on extractivism
- Saturday 20 October, all day: Gaia Foundation event on extractivism, resistance and alternatives.
Dear friends, We’ve got a bumper mailout for you this time, with masses of news of our recent involvement in a solidarity visit to communities affected by the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia and London activities in commemoration of the Marikana Massacre in South Africa as well as reports on Vedanta’s planned delisting from the London Stock Exchange, pollution around Glencore’s operations in Peru, radioactivity around Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar, Anglo American’s sponsorship of a London exhibition about Nelson Mandela and BHP’s new involvement in Ecuador. There is also information about the friends we’ve invited from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and the USA, who will be with us in mid-October for the BHP AGM and a number of public events, and about the protests planned by our friends at Foil Vedanta at Vedanta’s last ever London AGM before it delists from the London Stock Exchange and goes private. LMN member group Coal Action Network and friends in County Durham have been vindicated for their resistance to open-cast coal in Pont Valley. Our friends at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre have published a report on the human rights impacts of mining metals connected with the ‘green economy’. They have also published reports on the need for reform of corporate liability laws in the UK and on the ‘zero draft’ of the proposed new UN binding treaty on business and human rights. And there’s much more below! I hope to see you at our events next month. All the best,
Richard Solly,
Co-ordinator, London Mining Network. In this mailout Events Beyond BHP: breaking free from the world’s biggest mining giant – 11-21 October
Protest at Vedanta AGM, Monday 1 October
Eritrea In The News – Important new exhibition open to see in London during September News 1) Vedanta in the news
2) Eye-witness reports on the impacts of Cerrejon Coal (owned by Anglo American, BHP and Glencore)
3) London, Lonmin and the Marikana Massacre
4) UK coal news: Dipton, Consett open cast mine protesters cleared by court
5) Transitioning away from coal
6) Problems with mining for minerals connected with renewable energy
7) Annual zinc production at top five miners (involves Vedanta, BHP and Glencore)
8) Other news involving BHP
9) Anglo American in the news
10) News involving Glencore
11) Rio Tinto in the news
12) Other corporate news
13) Corporate liability in the UK
14) UN binding treaty on corporate liability
15) Reports and declarations on human rights impacts of mining Events Beyond BHP: breaking free from the world’s biggest mining giant Join us 11-21 October for ten 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 been devastating communities with impunity for decades. Events – more details coming soon!