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Follow the Money – From Pondoland to London Wall
Assassinated activist 'Bazooka' Rhadebe by Andy Higginbottom (*) At first sight the struggle of the Amadiba community in Pondoland, on South Africa’s Eastern Cape Wild Coast, to stop Australian company MRC mining on their land has nothing to do with Graham Edwards,...
The real world is thus: the 2016 Anglo American AGM
The eviction at Roche, La Guajira, Colombia, by the Colombian riot police squadron, ESMAD, 24 February 2016 AGM report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator of London Mining Network and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign This year's Anglo American AGM was held upstairs...
HSBC under attack for coal financing, human rights abuse, dodgy deals and more
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign My colleague from LMN, Richard Harkinson, and I joined friends from Move Your Money at the AGM of international bank HSBC on Friday 22 April. I was surprised and,...
Learning from the frontlines
Every April we host activists and community representatives from around the world, who have come to London to challenge Rio Tinto over various aspects of its global operations; land-grabbing, strike-breaking, displacement of communities. It is often grim and harrowing...
Goodnight children – sleep well: the 2016 Rio Tinto AGM
Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network (LMN) If you are a parent and your children find it difficult to go off to sleep at night, you may consider asking Sam Walsh to read them a bedtime story. A few paragraphs would surely...
Conflict Minerals: Almost 42,000 Europeans demand a mandatory regulation
The Stop Mad Mining coalition has handed over your 41,675 signatures that call on the EU to tackle the deadly trade in conflict minerals (see: https://londonminingnetwork.org/conflict-minerals-petition/). The hand-over took place in Brussels, first to Roland Roosdrop...
EU countries must not weaken plan to stop conflict minerals trade
The following is an opinion piece, written by Abbot Léonard Santedi, the Secretary General of the Bishops Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo, commenting on the current state of negotiations with in the European Union about conflict minerals. CIDSE, the...
BHP Billiton agrees to pay out over Samarco disaster, but legal action continues
For earlier updates, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/2016/02/updates-on-bhp-billitons-brazilian-dam-disaster/. BHP agrees to $US2.3b Samarco settlement BHP Billiton's Samarco joint venture will pay up to $US2.3 billion ($A3.15 billion) over six years after...
Cerrejon Coal: brutal evictions of villagers resisting relocation
La Guajira, Colombia: On Wednesday 24 February, the last family of villagers who had returned to the old village site at Roche out of frustration at conditions in the new settlement constructed by Cerrejon Coal were brutally evicted by Colombian police. The wholly...
Updates on BHP Billiton's Brazilian dam disaster
For earlier updates, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/?s=Samarco. Brazil police may accuse Samarco execs of homicide in dam burst Brazilian police have enough evidence to accuse executives of miner Samarco Mineração SA with homicide over a deadly dam burst in...