By Richard Solly, LMN Co-ordinator, with assistance from Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Paul Robson and Richard Harkinson This year’s BHP Billiton plc AGM was held on Thursday 20 October at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Outside, a vibrant protest...
There was a great deal of media coverage of this year’s BHP Billiton AGM in London, including plenty of quotes from LMN’s visitors from Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia. In advance of the AGM, the New Internationalist published Life in the shadow of the...
London Mining Network has signed a solidarity statement with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of its recent occupation of London City Airport. Black Lives Matter has come under attack for saying that the climate crisis is a racist crisis. London Mining...
Last week, LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign organised a vigil outside the Colombian Embassy in London in support of our friends in La Guajira, Colombia, who are struggling to stop Cerrejon Coal (owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP...
For the last sixteen years, I have been working in support of communities in the province of La Guajira, Colombia, being displaced by the massive Cerrejon opencast coal mine. The mine is owned by London-listed companies Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore....
