by Lydia | Sep 20, 2018 | Actions, Events
We launched our first ever crowdfunder today to help us fund the #BeyondBHP week of action. We would really appreciate any donations, big or small, and if you can’t donate, please share instead. Communities all over the world are rising against mining: from La...
by Lydia | Aug 20, 2018 | Actions, Events, News
On 16 August, around 60 people participated in Marikana Solidarity Collective’s (Marikana Miners Solidarity Campaign, Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum, Decolonising Environmentalism and London Mining Network) vigil of the sixth anniversary of the Marikana...
by Lydia | Aug 9, 2018 | Documents, Events
Learning from women’s organising in apartheid South Africa to present-day ahead of the sixth anniversary of 2012’s Marikana Massacre By Yula Burin Marikana Solidarity Collective marked South Africa’s Women’s Day on 9 August 2018 with a film...
by Lydia | Jul 13, 2018 | Actions, Events, News
This August will be the sixth anniversary of South Africa’s Marikana massacre. On 16th August 2012, 34 striking miners were killed by South African police at London-listed mining company Lonmin’s platinum mine. To show solidarity and to mark the day,...
by Richard | May 31, 2018 | Events
Picket outside Colombian embassy in solidarity with environmental defenders Carnival for Water – Life – Territory 8 June from 3:30pm – 5pm 3 Hans Crescent London SW1X 0LN Nearest tube: Knightsbridge station Let’s stand with Colombians who...
by Lydia | May 16, 2018 | Actions, Events, Video
In March 2018, Community leader Thumeka Magwangqana, lawyer Andries Nkome and Reverend Johannes Seoka travelled to London to attend mining company Lonmin’s Annual general meeting, that was held on 15 March. In the AGM, they asked uncomfortable questions to the...
by Richard | Mar 13, 2018 | Events, News
Monday 26 March, 7.00pm-10.00pm Join inspiring visitors from Colombia to celebrate the courage and creativity of Cajamarca – the Colombian municipality that stopped a mega mine and is pioneering alternatives to extractivism- with a night of storytelling, music...
by Lydia | Mar 12, 2018 | Events, News
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...
by Lydia | Dec 2, 2017 | Actions, Events, Video
In November 2017, nearly 2,000 mining company representatives, investors and financiers met at London’s Mines and Money Conference. Deals struck here – with the help of the likes of Nigel Farage and Arron Banks – are fuelling projects around the planet that...
by Richard | Nov 24, 2017 | Events
In September 2009 following heavy storms, a power plant chimney suddenly collapsed, killing at least 42 impoverished, sub-contracted workers. The catastrophe occurred at the Korba aluminium complex in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, majority owned and managed by...
