Remembrance, resistance and legal proceedings
Dear friends, Monday 25 January was the second anniversary of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho in Brazil. Vale is a Brazilian mining company with significant UK investment. We worked with our friends in Brazil to mark...
A Barmecide Feast: legal action against BHP for the Samarco disaster
By London Mining Network researcher Paul Robson A Barmecide Feast is a pretend or illusory act of generosity; and the beneficiary is supposed to be grateful for the fake generosity. It comes from a story in The Arabian Nights in which a prince invites a poor, starving...
Mining-affected communities remember, rise up, resist – and even investors are unnerved
Dear friends, I hope you are all surviving the continued difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have recently published a major new report, Martial Mining, about the links between mining and militarism. We have also revised our popular education board game...