by Lydia | Aug 2, 2019 | Video
These interviews with Sarah Agustio from Indonesian mining advocacy network JATAM and Indonesian PhD student Siti Maimunah were filmed during ‘Extracting Us’, a photography exhibition held in ONCA gallery, Brighton, UK, from 11-21 July 2019. Indonesia...
by Lydia | Feb 19, 2019 | Video
BHP, the London-listed mining giant, released its half-year profit earnings this morning, on 19th February. Their net profit for June-December 2018 increased to $3.8 billion, up 90 percent from the last half of 2017. But it comes at a cost: clean water for...
by Lydia | Aug 22, 2018 | News, Video
Precious Metal: Marikana film released online 16 August marked the sixth anniversary of the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, when security forces opened fire on striking mine-workers in the most lethal use of force by the South African state since apartheid....
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 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 Liam Barrington-Bush | Feb 1, 2017 | Actions, News, Video
A short film by Zoe Broughton from last week’s Lonmin AGM protest and commemoration for the 34 South African miners killed at the British company’s Marikana platinum mine in South Africa in August 2012.
by Liam Barrington-Bush | Dec 17, 2016 | News, Video
One of our friends in La Guajira, Colombia – Jakeline Romero – who has long-opposed the British-owned Cerrejón coal mine, has just received death threats over her opposition to the mine. We must draw attention to her and our other friends in the region,...
by Patrick Scott | Aug 28, 2016 | Commentary, Video
At the foot of the mountain called Cerro de Potosí (commonly called the Cerro Rico or rich mountain) is the Bolivian city of Potosí itself. The mountain has been mined for silver since the Spanish conquest in the 16th Century, Cerro Rico contained the world’s...
by Liam Barrington-Bush | Jun 30, 2016 | Events, Video
By Ewa Jasiewicz Tuesday, July 19th, a network of climate and social justice groups are coming together in London to host the award-winning South African documentary feature The Shore Break. — Book your tickets at the bottom of this page — Released last...
by Liam Barrington-Bush | Jun 23, 2016 | Actions, Commentary, Video
By Liam Barrington-Bush Is the Responsible Extractives Summit, headlined by Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Barrick Gold and others, a cynical PR move or an indication of ‘the ethical best’ an inherently-destructive industry has to offer? ‘It must be a joke,’ I...
