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22 January – Resisting Mining Book Club: “Pitfall”
LMN is delighted to announce our first Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Christopher Pollon, who will be speaking about his book Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (Greystone Books, 2023). Register via link below! About...
Barriers to a Just Transition are not Technical, They are Political. Report from “Resisting Green Imperialism” event
"Resisting Green Imperialism, Fighting for a Socially Just Transition." Photo: Rebeca Binda / LMN. On November 30, 2024, over 150 representatives from UK NGOs, campaign and solidarity groups, academic experts and community leaders attended London Mining Network’s...
The UK’s scramble for ‘green’ hydrogen: bad news for southern Africa?
The post is written in collaboration with Action for Southern Africa UK. Anglo American Platinum Mogalakwena Mine in Limpopo, South Africa. Source: Environmental Justice Atlas/Esri. "While governments and companies see a positive future for hydrogen, communities...
Community of Kabwe still not seeing Anglo American’s “responsibility to the people and environment it operates in”
An open letter is handed in to Anglo American by a representative from Kabwe, Zambia, demanding remediation for mass lead poisoning. London, 31 October 2024. Photo credit: Jess Hurd. “We demand that Anglo American properly address the environmental devastation they’ve...
LMN’s Engagement with the Adivasi Resistance to Mining and Militarisation in India
An Adivasi protest site in Sukma District, Bastar. 30 organisations and networks including LMN have signed a solidarity statement condemning the escalating state violence on the Adivasi Communities in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The statement can be signed individually or...
Communities and social organisations in Chile distrust Anglo American’s National Sustainability and Public Account Forum and respond to it with an open letter
Anglo American Chile has launched the National Sustainability and Public Account Forum, which seeks to enhance transparency in the private sector. The information from Anglo American Chile web page explains the forum in these words: In a context where trust...
Help Tamaquito II Preserve Their Heritage
The Wayuu community of Tamaquito II was forced to relocate by the expansion of the coal open-cast Cerrejón mine owned by Glencore. Since their relocation, the community has been trying to recover its autonomy and to keep alive its cultural wisdom and traditions. In...
Cerrejón—Glencore’s coal mine continues to make unfulfilled promises to the communities it has affected for decades in Colombia. The Roche community speaks up
This is an open letter to Glencore regarding the forced-resettled African-descent community of Roche in La Guajira. After their forced relocation, they lost their rural livelihood based on agriculture and cattle ranching and the consequences of that remain...
Centering Indigenous Sovereignty at COP29: Defining a Just Transition for a Sustainable Future
Oak Flat/Chíchʼil Bił Dagoteel threatened by Rio Tinto/BHP joint venture Resolution Copper. Photo: AZ Mining Reform Coalition. As global demand for minerals like nickel, lithium or copper rises to fuel renewable technologies, so too do the hidden costs: deforestation,...
9th Memorial to the tragedy of Samarco that killed 19 people and the Rio Doce
On 5 November, the communities in Brazil who were affected by the collapse of the Fundão tailing dam marked the 9th anniversary of this disaster which took away 19 lives and caused massive environmental damage, polluting the waters and wildlife of Rio Doce from the...