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From poisoned legacies to greenwashing the energy transition: Resisting Anglo American, 1 May, 6.00 pm
Image credit: Parque Andino Juncal, Chile by Ignacio Acosta (Traces of Nitrate) / London Mining Network. Date and Time: Thursday, 1 May 2025, from 6.00 pmPlace: UCL, LG04 in Bedford Way (26), London, WC1H 0AP GB Register to join! Decades of lead pollution in Kabwe,...
Resisting Mining Book Club: “Just Transformations” with Iokiñe Rodriguez
LMN is delighted to announce our third Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Iokiñe Rodriguez, who will be speaking about her co-edited collection Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures (Pluto Press, 2023). About the book:...
2025 Rio Tinto AGM: Take action today!
On April 3, 2025, Rio Tinto is holding its annual general meeting in London. Join us and people around the world to tell Rio Tinto to Mind the Gap between rhetoric and reality. A group of international campaigners are coming together in London to amplify community...
Campaigners urge Rio Tinto to respect Community and Nature Rights
Key points: Campaigners are coming together in London echoing community demands that Rio Tinto’s shareholders put pressure on addressing a series of long-standing issues concerning lack of transparency and accountability regarding social and environmental impacts. The...
Investor alert: MIND THE GAP! Rio Tinto versus Reality
For too long Rio Tinto has made claims about its social and environmental performance, and published glossy reports that do not reflect the reality for communities living on the ground around their mines. Investors need to "Mind the Gap" between what Rio Tinto is...
Treaties, Trade, and Corporate Power Mechanisms – Tratados, Comercio y Mecanismos de Poder Corporativo
- Texto en español abajo - Join us for Weaving Futures: Festival and Popular Education Series for a Just Transition, a series aimed at generating spaces for learning, articulation and action in solidarity with the movements and peoples in Colombia. Over four events in...
Resisting Mining Book Club: “Workers of the Earth” – with Stefania Barca, 19 March 2025
LMN is delighted to announce our second Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Stefania Barca, who will be speaking about her book Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change (Pluto Press, 2024).
London High Court case against BHP nears conclusion
Mangroves near the mouth of the Rio Doce, after the Samarco tailings dam disaster, November 2015. Photo: Nilmar Lage. The case in the High Court in London against mining company BHP, on behalf of 620,000 people affected by the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in...
“Anglo American has shown no moral responsibility” – A response to Anglo American’s letter about lead pollution in Kabwe
On 3 February 2025, ahead of the mining indaba mining conference kick off in South Africa, ACTSA published in full Anglo American’s reply to our open letter of 31 October 2024 and the response by ACTSA, London Mining Network, and RAID. Kabwe, in Zambia, was for 49...
London Metal Exchange and the Financial Conduct Authority alerted to the risk of trading copper from the Grasberg mine
Since its opening more than 50 years ago, the Grasberg mine in West Papua has severely impacted the lives of the indigenous and local communities, devastating the forest and the rivers essential to their sustenance and well-being. We stand in solidarity with the...