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Press release – Marikana pushes for accountability from Lonmin before takeover
JOINT PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/03/18 Community leader, bishop and lawyer representing workers at Marikana, South Africa, visit London 12-16 March to hold platinum mining company Lonmin to account over 2012 Massacre Lonmin has still not fulfilled its...
Coal in England, and worker deaths in South Africa
Dear friends, If you are in London, don't forget the events coming up this week in support of our friends from South Africa: a demonstration outside the Lonmin AGM in Lincoln's Inn Fields on Thursday morning and a public meeting at the Karibu Centre in Brixton in the...
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Justice for Marikana: protest the Lonmin AGM!
Time is running out to hold Lonmin to account for its role in South Africa’s Marikana Massacre Lonmin is a British-South African mining company; it is the world’s third largest platinum producer and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. One of its mines is in...
Open letter to Variscan Mines Ltd and its shareholders
Recently, London Mining Network was contacted by the Collectif Douar Didoull in Brittany (France). The Collectif reported on the efforts of Australian mining company Variscan to begin mining in their area, and informed us that Variscan had suggested that it may seek a...
Resistance is fertile
Dear friends, This week, Rio Tinto, Anglo American and African Minerals are all in trouble with the law in one way or another. But that isn't stopping Rio Tinto expanding in Mongolia, where it is under fire for alleged tax avoidance, or Anglo American from expanding...
Protesting the Mines and Money Conference
Late last November, the annual Mines and Money Conference took place in London, bringing together mining companies and mining financiers. London Mining Network and member groups Gaia Foundation and War on Want, assisted by member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign and...
Protesting the Mines and Money conference and other London mining news
Dear friends, I hope you had a good break at the end of 2017, and wish you all the best for 2018. Late last year, we were involved in protesting against the Mines and Money Conference in London and challenging coal company GCM Resources at its AGM. We report on both...
We Are Bruno: Citizens Caught Between An Absentee State And A State-Like Corporation
We Are Bruno: Citizens Caught Between An Absentee State And A State-Like Corporation During Water Conflicts In La Guajira, Colombia Emma Banks, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University ABSTRACT: In natural resource frontiers, local communities are on the...
Flogging a Dead Horse: the 2017 GCM Resources AGM
“The overall indication from various departments has not been entirely negative...” Datuk Michael Tang, Executive Chairman, GCM Resources. Report on the GCM Resources AGM, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1, Tuesday 12 December 2017 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London...