The mountains and the glaciers must be left alone!: No+Anglo American movement in Chile.
Public statement about Los Bronces, 24 January 2022 Through an open letter to the director of the Environmental Assessment Service (SEA), Hernán Brücher, the association of officials of that division expressed its “concern” about the opening of a Citizen...
Rays of hope to begin 2022
Dear friends, The year has begun with multiple events in London: a commemoration of the criminal killings of 272 people in the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster in Brazil in 2019, a picket of the Science Museum over its sponsorship by coal mining company Adani, and a...
Day of Action against mining in Portugal, 28 January 2022
Our friends at MINAS NÃO in Portugal have issued the following call to solidarity for 28 January 2022 «No more a lonely fight, now we fight together. They are not alone, we are not alone.» Words of members of the National Indigenous Congress from Mexico,...
OECD accepts complaints against Anglo American, BHP and Glencore at Cerrejón
The OECD accepts complaints of human rights and due diligence standards violations made against the mining multinational owners of Cerrejón By Prensa Cajar | Jan. 26 2022 | Land defence The National Contact Points of Switzerland, Australia and the United Kingdom...
Chile: the advance of the toxic mountains
The Chilean population is in danger: The advance of the toxic mountains, 2,572,263 tonnes every 30 hours in Chile. By Javiera Martinez, with assistance from Holly Jones There are 742 tailings deposits in Chile, with toxic waste containing arsenic, lead, mercury,... Remembering Vale’s Victims in Brumadinho
January 2022 marks three years since the collapse of Vale’s dam in Brumadinho. This preventable disaster claimed the lives of 272 victims. Families who lost their loved ones are still fighting to see justice after what was done – while Vale continues to...
Brumadinho: 3 years on, families of outsourced workers who died still struggle for compensation
By Gabriela Sarmet The outsourcing of workers imposed by the mining sector has worsened after the “Labour Reform” of Temer and Bolsonaro. Today, more than 50% of workers in the sector are outsourced. This represents fewer rights, more precarious work and...
BHP cuts and runs from London, ‘not with a bang, but a whimper’
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Two of us from London Mining Network were at the sparsely-attended BHP Group plc ‘Scheme Meeting’ in London and the Extraordinary General Meeting which immediately followed it today. The ‘Scheme...
Vigil for Brumadinho – Solidarity with Minas Gerais
Join us in remembering those who were killed by the collapse of Vale’s tailings dam in Brumadinho, and in showing our solidarity by those threatened by the current flooding in Minas Gerais. We will gather outside the Brazilian Embassy in London for a candlelight...
Peru: the damage done by Antamina
PUERTO HUARMEY: HOW FISHES, SEA LIONS, AND PEOPLE COEXISTED UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF ANTAMINA Article written and translated by Red Muqui. Original Spanish article here. Recently, on December 7, a news story was published about a Chimbote court decision that revoked a...