12 March – Rejeitos (Tailings): Film screening

12 March – Rejeitos (Tailings): Film screening

In recent years, two mining tailings dams broke in the state of Minas Gerais, causing Brazil’s worst ever socio-environmental disasters. Hundreds were killed, millions were affected. Communities were displaced and two main rivers became mud, flooding the...
BHP: Clean the River Doce!

BHP: Clean the River Doce!

For more on the Mariana Dam Disaster and its links to Aberfan, see our recent article in New Internationalist To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Mariana disaster (read our 2017 report The River is Dead for more information) we have hosted Leticia Oliveira and...
Latin American Land Defenders Confront Anglo American in London

Latin American Land Defenders Confront Anglo American in London

Activists from London Mining Network and War on Want were joined yesterday by land defenders from mining affected communities across Latin America outside the Annual General Meeting of Anglo American to protest the company’s damaging practices. Outside the QEII Centre...