Indigenous Sami rights under attack from Swedish State and UK mining company
UK mining company Beowulf holds its AGM tomorrow, 22 June, in London. The company has recently been granted a mining concession in Sápmi (indigenous Sami territory) in Sweden against the express wishes of the Sami people and against the explicit recommendation of...
Can we imagine the change we really want?
Fr Stan Swamy SJ RIP 8 July 2021 Dear friends, We have just launched the English version of a book and video primarily for children, Droplet and Wagtail’s Tailings Tale, about the effects of mining waste on ecosystems. This is our translation of excellent work...
Questions to Beowulf
British company Beowulf has been trying for years to start mining iron ore in the ancestral territory of the indigenous Sámi people in northern Sweden. London Mining Network has supported Sámi organisations in opposing the company’s plans, which would disrupt...