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...
Resisting Mining Book Club: Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in the Contemporary World, 14 September 2022
LMN is delighted to announce the fifth Resisting Mining Book Club 2022 with guest speaker Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, who will be speaking about her edited collection Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in the Contemporary World...
Resisting Mining Book Club: Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide, 11 May
LMN is delighted to announce our third Resisting Mining Book Club 2022 with guest speaker Damien Short, who will be speaking about his book Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide (Zed Books, 2016). Register About the book: In this...
Resisting Mining Book Club: Rare Earth Frontiers, 17 March
LMN is delighted to announce the second Resisting Mining Book Club 2022 with guest speaker Julie Michelle Klinger, who will be speaking about her book Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Cornell University Press, 2017). Register About...
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... BHP in Peru: Community of Aquia begins indefinite strike for violation of rights by the Antamina mine.
En Español debajo Credits: La Rotativa BHP is an Anglo-Australian oil and mining company based in Melbourne, Australia, and listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is the largest mining company in the world with a value of almost 130 billion dollars in 2020. It has 33...
Can the mining industry save the planet? Probably not.
Dear friends, With the COP26 talks coming up, we have created educational materials for teachers and held an educational event for young people. Follow-up films to this event are on our website. We are working within the COP26 Coalition on a number of events during...
COP26 People’s Summit: Focus on Mining
While world leaders meet at COP26 in Glasgow, the People’s Summit for Climate Justice will be building power for system change! By bringing together climate movements from across the globe, the Summit is putting on a whole raft of events to discuss, share and...
Making Connections: Follow up films
If you watched our recent Making Connections: Young People and Communities on the Frontlines of Climate Justice event and want to find out more, here are three films to watch about the impacts and resistance to coal mining. Sexy Killers Indonesia Sexy Killers is...