Mongolian herders protest at Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine
Traditional herders from Khanbogd, Mongolia, held a demonstration at the gates of the Rio-Tinto controlled Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine on Tuesday 11 January, 2022. The herders are demanding that the International Finance Corporation (the private finance arm of the...
Latin American Church groups unite around demand for a post-extractivist economy
Edited version of a ‘Divest from Mining’ comunique at https://divestinmining.org/en-sintonia-con-la-asamblea-eclesial-latinoamericana-la-vida-religiosa-de-america-latina-se-une-por-una-economia-samaritana/, translated by Holly Jones. More than 100 Catholic...
Colombia: Cerrejon Coal moves to evict community of Papayal
The huge Cerrejon opencast coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia, is currently owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore (though Glencore will assume complete control of the mine in 2022). It has a history of forced relocations of farming...
Resisting Mining Book Club: Planetary Mine, 12 January 2022
LMN is delighted to announce the first Resisting Mining Book Club 2022 with guest speaker Martín Arboleda, who will be speaking about his book Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism (Verso Books, 2020). To be able to attend this event, please...