Glencore is causing global discontent
Yesterday, 29 May, Glencore hosted its AGM in Zug, Switzerland. It was intended as a celebration of the company’s achievements during the past year. In response, people around the globe have been demonstrating their discontent with Glencore, as its mining...
Answering questions that nobody asked
Report on the Fresnillo plc AGM, 21 May 2024 Photo: Alejandro Ruiz Representatives and friends of the El Bajio community, London Mining Network, ShareAction and Transform Trade attended the AGM to raise concerns about the activities of Fresnillo plc’s subsidiary...
6 June – Resisting Mining Book Club: Dismantling Green Colonialism
LMN is delighted to announce our third Resisting Mining Book Club of 2024 with guest speakers Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, who will be speaking about their edited collection Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (Pluto...
Anglo American’s finances so poor they can’t even afford headsets
Report on the Anglo American AGM, Tuesday 30 April 2024 By Richard Solly, assisted by Ana Reyes-Hurt, Andy Higginbottom, Diana Salazar, Jake Simms, Kerima Mohideen, Malvika Gupta, Paul Robson, Rebeca Binda and Sebastian Ordonez Introduction by Richard Solly At least... A tribute to Samuel Arregoces
By Diana Salazar, Emma Banks, Richard Solly and Seb Ordonez With immense sadness we learnt of the premature death, on Saturday 27 April 2024, of our beloved friend and colleague Samuel Arregoces, from the community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia. Samuel was buried...
Anglo American intensifies land control and continues fragmenting communities
In January 2024, El Melon’s trade association of farmers and livestock farmers sent this public letter to Anglo American about conflicts over common land near the company’s El Soldado copper mine in Chile. The company has responded with this letter: Board of...
8 May – Extraction and appropriation: trade and (dis)order between Brazil and UK
Join us to learn from the Kayapo and Munduruku Indigenous peoples alongside community leaders from the regions of the Trombetas and Xingu Rivers in the Brazilian Amazon, who are affected by gold and bauxite extraction in their lands. We will interrogate issues of...
Voices resisting Corporate control: Anglo American Listen up
We are pleased to announce that Luis Acevedo, the President of the Trade Association of Farmers and Livestock Farmers from El Melon in Chile, is visiting London to present the Association’s demands for the impacts caused by Anglo American in their territories. His...
Four in five UK adults support new laws to tackle environmental harm and human rights abuses in company supply chains
New research shows that four in five adults in the UK support new laws requiring companies to prevent serious environmental harm and human rights abuses in their operations or supply chains. The survey of 2,124 UK adults by the polling company YouGov, released today...
29 April – Who Controls the Land?
Join us on 29 April as we’re joined by Luis Acevedo and Bonnie VandeSteeg from the People’s Land Policy for a discussion on land rights and mega mining in Latin America and beyond. Meet Luis Acevedo Luis Acevedo is the president of the trade association of...