La Guajira, Colombia: On Wednesday 24 February, the last family of villagers who had returned to the old village site at Roche out of frustration at conditions in the new settlement constructed by Cerrejon Coal were brutally evicted by Colombian police. The wholly...
Houses in the community of New Roche, June 2014 (photo: Richard Solly) By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Julia Lagoutte We have just received news that many families from three of the communities displaced by Cerrejon Coal...
From Cape to Cairo – Rhodes` vision of the conquest of Africa. He got as far as Northen Rhodesia , modern day Zambia, and through his agent and companies influenced mining development as far as Katanga now in DRC.by Kerima Mohideen and Richard Harkinson One Sided...
On the 9 October, as part of global #ReclaimPower mobilisations, London Mining Network and other groups in London held an action tour in Central London, stopping at various companies and government agencies that are enabling and financing dirty energy projects around...
By Hal Rhoades of LMN member group Gaia Foundation Yesterday members of UK civil society held an action in central London to challenge the Mining On Top Africa: London Summit. Two of us managed to get into the conference cocktail reception and hand a UK-African Civil...
