Globalise struggle, globalise hope – reflections from BHP education project
In the second year of LMN’s BHP Witness project, we conducted two workshops at Kingston University with first year students around the annual shareholders’ meeting of mining giant BHP, in October.
The first was...
VIDEO – Unmasking BHP: challenging the world’s largest mining company
Last month four human rights defenders from Latin America travelled to London to speak truth to power at the British-Australian mining giant's annual shareholders' meeting, as part of a...
BHP’s London AGM, Thursday 17 October 2019: a fight between a tethered donkey and a tiger
Report by Diana Salazar and Richard Solly with assistance from Benjamin Hitchcock, Glen Mpufane, Liz Umlas, Paul Robson and Seb Ordonez.
1. As a lively demonstration against BHP continued outside the Queen Elizabeth II Centre...
Open letter to BHP on anniversary of Samarco dam collapse
At 1.15pm today, representatives from London Mining Network, War on Want and Global Justice Now tried to hand in a letter at BHP's London office, addressed to the company's chair Ken MacKenzie, on the fourth...
Press release: letter hand-in at BHP office on anniversary of Samarco dam collapse
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Fundão tailings (mine waste) dam disaster in Mariana, a town in the Southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Fundão dam and the associated iron ore mine, called...
Media coverage of Unmasking BHP
Media coverage of Unmasking BHP 2019 speakers' tour
English press coverage (chronological order)
Telegraph piece post-AGM (you can register for free to access):
Mining News (behind a...
