by Lydia | Apr 1, 2020 | News
British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is gaining a reputation for not cleaning up its toxic mining mess – in Papua New Guinea, West Papua and Madagascar, to name a few. Most recently, the government of New Zealand threatened the company with legal action for...
by Lydia | Apr 1, 2020 | News
Representatives from Rio Tinto-affected communities or from supporting organisations from Bougainville, Madagascar and US were going to travel to the UK for a week of action around Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting (AGM). Obviously the global pandemic made this...
by Richard | Mar 16, 2020 | News
In recent weeks, Dom Vicente Ferreira, Catholic Bishop of Brumadinho in Brazil, was in Europe speaking about the continuing impacts of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse there in January 2019, which killed 272 people. The iron ore mine at Brumadinho is owned and...
by Richard | Mar 12, 2020 | News
New death threats have been issued against LMN’s friends in indigenous Colombian organisation Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (Wayuu Women’s Force). Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu has been heavily involved in the struggle for justice in the face of the environmental...
by Lydia | Mar 9, 2020 | News, Press Releases
9th March 2020, 7.30pm, for immediate release London Mining Network and Phulbari Solidarity Group JOINT PRESS RELEASE GCM Resources have just announced the postponment of their London AGM tomorrow, again. This is the second time that the London-listed company has...
by Lydia | Mar 8, 2020 | News
Chilean activist and LMN volunteer Javiera Martinez took part in an action with XR in central London today to mark International Women’s Day. They blocked Waterloo Bridge for the action that made the links between climate justice and justice for women around the...
