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Glencore – Drop the Suits Against Colombia/Retire las Demandas Contra Colombia
(en español debajo) Glencore, the multi-billion dollar Swiss mining giant, is using the controversial Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism to sue Colombia (to learn more about ISDS, read this report). So far, Glencore has filled four ISDS cases against...
Welcoming Visitors from Colombia & Peru
With our friends ABColombia, Peru Support Group and War on Want, we're pleased to be hosting the UK leg of an international tour of speakers from Colombia and Peru. These speakers, who come to us from Indigenous and mining-affected communities, will be speaking about...
Yes to Life No To Mining – Statement in Support of Palestinian Decolonial Struggle
London Mining Network supports the following statement from Yes to Life No to Mining. To sign the statement as an organisation or individual, please see their website. We, Yes to Life No to Mining (YLNM), and the other undersigned participants of the Second Thematic...
7 December – Resisting Mining Book Club: Pluriverse
LMN is delighted to announce our final Resisting Mining Book Club of 2023, an interactive and collaborative discussion of Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary, edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta. About the...
27 November – Unmasking Glencore: A Toxic Legacy in Colombia and Peru
Indigenous communities in Peru and Colombia are reporting a devastation of their land, water and sacred spaces as a result of coal and copper mining respectively by British-registered multinational Glencore PLC. Come and hear directly from indigenous communities from...
BHP: Clean the River Doce!
For more on the Mariana Dam Disaster and its links to Aberfan, see our recent article in New Internationalist To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Mariana disaster (read our 2017 report The River is Dead for more information) we have hosted Leticia Oliveira and...
5 November – Cursed Legacy: from Colonisation to Neoliberalism
Join us for a screening of the documentary "Cursed Legacy: From Colonisation to Neoliberalism" followed by a panel discussion to mark the 8th anniversary of the Samarco Dam Disaster – the worst environmental catastrophe in Brazilian history. On November 5, 2015, the...
Fighting for the future in the Sonoran Desert
This article originally appeared on ojala.mx. Special thanks to Dawn Marie Paley for allowing us to repost it here. See the original post here. A saguaro cactus at twilight in the Ejido el Bajío, Sonora, Mexico in September, 2023. Photo: Giuliano Salvatore - Fundación...
18 October – Book Club Extra: Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa, part 2
español abajo We resume a close reading of this book, from Chapter 6 to the end (Part 1 was on 28 June). In the early decades of the twentieth century, Anglo American set up a financial conglomerate to control many underground mines. Its huge profitability was founded...
9 October – Resisting Green Colonialism @ The World Transformed
London Mining Network will be at The World Transformed with our friends War on Want this year. On 9 October we'll be co-hosting the panel Resisting Green Colonialism: Learning From Resistance Movements Globally. If you're attending the festival, join us on Monday 9...