Members of communities resisting mining, social movements, NGOs, academics, unions and several representatives of London Mining Network and some of its member groups united at the recent International People’s Conference on Mining in Manila, Philippines, to make the...
Every year, the killings of protesters against opencast coal mining at Phulbari in Bangladesh are commemorated. Plans to construct a huge opencast mine are being pursued by London-listed GCM Resources. This year, a meeting was held in London to pay homage to the...
Photo: Islamic Relief In June we reported on Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on the environment, social justice and climate change, which also mentioned the damage done by mining. Now a major Islamic declaration on climate change has been released, calling for...
PassBlue is an independent digital publication providing in-depth journalism and vivid photographs on the United Nations, with a strong focus on women. The publication’s reporter Rhona Scullion recently interviewed London Mining Network Co-ordinator Richard...
Deep coal mines were the bedrock of Britain’s industrial revolution and the struggle to save them, and the jobs and communities that relied on them, helped define the politics of the 1970s and 80s. But it looks as though Britain’s last two deep coal mines...
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year’s Vedanta AGM was preceded, as usual, by a vibrant and noisy demonstration organised by our friends at Foil Vedanta – one of a series of demonstrations against the company organised also in India...
