by Lydia | Feb 14, 2020 | Commentary, News
Chilean activist Javiera Martinez writes about residents of the town of El Melón, who are occupying a well to protest a British mining company’s diversion of essential drinking water ‘It is not drought, it is looting’ is the slogan that movements in Chile are using in...
by Lydia | Jan 27, 2020 | Events, News
“On 25 January 2019 I lost my father and my friends. Many family members worked and work for mining companies. We have tried to make an inventory of our collective losses but nothing can measure our feelings and our suffering. Everywhere I go I carry with me 272...
by Lydia | Jan 22, 2020 | Press Releases
For immediate release: 22/01/20 Events around the world are being organised to mark first anniversary of Brumadinho’s catastrophic mining disaster, in the context of a rising culture of corporate impunity in Brazil On 25th January 2019 near the Brazilian town of...
by Lydia | Jan 18, 2020 | Monthly bulletin
Dear friends, Happy New Year (though perhaps it no longer feels very new)! There are two events coming up next week which I urge you to attend if you can: a protest on Monday at the UK-Africa Investment Summit, which promises to be a festival of destructive...
by Lydia | Jan 13, 2020 | News
After the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Brazilian mining company Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho on 25 January 2019, the Church of England and Swedish state pension funds started to gather data on existing mine waste tailings dams by sending out a...
