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Evasion and hypocrisy: the 2021 Rio Tinto plc AGM
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Dina Rui, Roger Featherstone, Sukhgerel Dugersuren, Yvonne Orengo and Zoe Lujic. Rio Tinto's London AGM on 9 April 2021 was the first 'hybrid' AGM we have experienced: the legal meeting...
Send Rio Tinto a Message
On 9 April 2021, Rio Tinto will be holding its Annual General Meeting - the first since its shocking demolition of the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge site. Across the globe, this giant mining company continues to destroy Indigenous heritage, put communities under water...
Communities in Serbia want Rio Tinto to LEAVE
Rio Tinto's plans to construct the Jadar lithium mine in Serbia have met with stiff opposition. Communities living on the land where the mine, its associated tailings storage, and power plant are due to be constructed have a simple and clear demand for Rio Tinto;...
Rio Tinto: No Progress, Only Hollow Talk
To mark Rio Tinto's 2021 AGM, campaigners from five continents came together to push back against the company's hollow talk. Rio Tinto says its a force for "human progress", but around the world its actions tell a different story. Here we collect the community demands...
Mining industry takes advantage of pandemic to try to licence 13 projects at once in Minas Gerais, Brazil
On the attempt to approve 13 licencing projects at once at COPAM-MG By Gabriela Sarmet, co-founder of the Coletivo Decolonial, a researcher on socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and an individual associate member of London Mining Network Artwork...
Rio Tinto Alternative Timeline
End coal, end extractivism, end expansion of the mining frontier!
Dear friends, We welcome the fact that popular pressure over climate impacts has forced the UK Government to call a public inquiry into the proposed new metallurgical coal mine in West Cumbria in north western England. Congratulations to LMN member group Coal Action...
Recording: Resisting Mining Book Club, Resource Radicals
Recorded 15/03/21 https://vimeo.com/524191933 LMN was delighted to be joined by guest speaker Thea Riofrancos for the launch of the first Resisting Mining Book Club! Thea spoke about her recently published book Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to...
Aggreko plc – Are You Benefiting from Modern Slavery?
Freedom United and LMN member group Eritrea Focus have published an open letter to London Listed company Aggreko plc. Aggreko has just signed an agreement to work with Australian miner Danakali on its Colluli Potash Project in Eritrea, which operates a system of...
Investing in Rio Tinto? Here’s what you should know
Ahead of this April's AGM, we've put together the following briefing papers for anyone thinking of investing in Rio Tinto. Written with community members and activists, these papers show the reality of living with Rio Tinto's operations. Across the world, the...