The potential of grassroots international solidarity
Centre for World Environmental History event.
Foil Vedanta core activist Miriam Rose shares their experience of standing alongside community resistance to bring mining giant Vedanta Resources to justice for pollution and human rights abuses across India and Africa. Miriam will speak to the role of financiers, tax havens, UK government ministers, aid agencies and NGOs in facilitating neo-colonial mining land grabs and resource racism, and how western based grassroots activists can have a real impact in unmasking the power and working in real solidarity.
Miriam Rose is an activist and researcher on the mining and metals industry and a core member of Foil Vedanta, a grassroots international solidarity group based primarily focused on British Indian mining company Vedanta Resources, which has been widely acclaimed for its grassroots scholar activism and global movement building. She has spent time in India and Zambia tracking the company and linking affected communities, and has published a groundbreaking report Copper Colonialism: Vedanta KCM and the copper loot of Zambia co-authored with Samarendra Das, among other articles on the web and in local and national magazines.
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