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Battling Giants: Frontline Resistance to BHP Billiton Around the Globe (15/10/16)
When? Saturday 15 October, 2pm - 9pm Where? SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Main Building Room room G3 (registration and plenaries) and rooms G51 and G51a Registration 2pm, event begins 2.30pm...
October speaker tour by communities affected by BHP Billiton
From 15 to 21 October, London Mining Network will be hosting visitors from Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia representing communities affected by the operations of the world's biggest mining company, BHP Billiton. The company holds its AGM in London on Thursday 20...
Solidarity with Black Lives Matter UK shutdown at City Airport
London Mining Network has signed a solidarity statement with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of its recent occupation of London City Airport. Black Lives Matter has come under attack for saying that the climate crisis is a racist crisis. London Mining...
CORE & London Mining Network launch guide for holding UK companies accountable in English courts for human rights abuses abroad
The aim of this guide is to help communities, workers, and civil society organisations supporting them, to understand the process of using legal action in England to hold UK companies to account for harming people in other countries.
Latest update on BHP Billiton/Vale tailings dam disaster in Brazil
An official report into the Samarco Tailings Dam failure in Brazil has now been released. This is a full and comprehensive investigation that needs detailed explanation, undertaken by a highly credible panel. Samarco is jointly owned by BHP Billiton (jointly listed in...
JPMorgan goes deeper into Eritrea's mines
The US banking giant JPMorgan Chase has recently announced that it has taken a 9.12% holding in the Australian mining company Danakali. On its company website Danakali describes its main focus as the Colluli Potash Project in Eritrea which it owns jointly with the...
Review of Cerro Rico – The Silver Mountain
At the foot of the mountain called Cerro de Potosí (commonly called the Cerro Rico or rich mountain) is the Bolivian city of Potosí itself. The mountain has been mined for silver since the Spanish conquest in the 16th Century, Cerro Rico contained the world's largest...
Cerrejon Coal: the Marcha de Mantas Rojas
Last week, LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign organised a vigil outside the Colombian Embassy in London in support of our friends in La Guajira, Colombia, who are struggling to stop Cerrejon Coal (owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP...
Cerrejon Coal: a struggle between a tethered donkey and a tiger
For the last sixteen years, I have been working in support of communities in the province of La Guajira, Colombia, being displaced by the massive Cerrejon opencast coal mine. The mine is owned by London-listed companies Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore....
Amnesty International releases report on Lonmin's broken promises for 4th anniversary of Marikana massacre
Amnesty International has just released a new report, South Africa: Smoke and mirrors: Lonmin’s failure to address housing conditions at Marikana. The report deals with Lonmin's failure to address the appalling housing conditions which helped fuel the dispute with...