[WSMDiscuss] Mining conflicts multiply, as critics of ‘extractivism’ gather in Johannesburg

[Patrick Bond]

Thanks... if you can point out which coverage is best, I will pass this 
along to the organisers and I'm sure they will bring it up tomorrow...

2 Arrested For Murder Attempt On Anti-Corruption Activist In Meghalaya
<https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/2-arrested-for-murder-attempt-on-anti-corruption-activist-agnes-kharshiing-in-meghalaya-1944867> 

NDTV· 1 day ago
Agnes Kharshiing critical but stable
<http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2018/11/09/agnes-kharshiing-critical-but-stable/> 

The Shillong Times· 1 day ago
Meghalaya: Mob attacks activist Agnes Kharshiing protesting illegal mining
<https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/meghalaya/meghalaya-mob-attacks-activist-agnes-kharshiing-protesting-illegal-mining-5438509/> 

The Indian Express· 2 days ago
<https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-ab&q=Agnes+Kharshiing&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjslJ66s8veAhUKz4UKHVYbC0YQt8YBKAF6BAgAEAs> 

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T7 News Channel
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2:18
Shah thombor ka
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Here's what
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      Agnes Kharshiing - Wikipedia


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/Agnes Kharshiing/ is a women's rights activist in Northeast India. She 
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      2 Arrested For Murder Attempt On Anti-Corruption Activist Agnes ...


https://www.ndtv.com › All India
<https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/2-arrested-for-murder-attempt-on-anti-corruption-activist-agnes-kharshiing-in-meghalaya-1944867>
2 days ago - Officials at the North East Indira Gandhi Regional 
Institute of Health Medical Sciences said that the activist, /Agnes 
Kharshiing/, was still in a ...


      Anti-Corruption Activist Agnes Kharshiing Attacked In Meghalaya ...


https://www.ndtv.com › All India
<https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/anti-corruption-activist-agnes-kharshiing-attacked-in-meghalaya-critical-1944486>
3 days ago - Noted anti-corruption and women's rights activist of 
Meghalaya, /Agnes Kharshiing/, is said to be critical after she was 
brutally attacked by ...


      Meghalaya: Mob attacks activist Agnes Kharshiing protesting
      illegal ...


https://indianexpress.com › North East India › Meghalaya
<https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/meghalaya/meghalaya-mob-attacks-activist-agnes-kharshiing-protesting-illegal-mining-5438509/>
2 days ago - A Prominent social activist of Meghalaya, /Agnes 
Kharshiing/, was seriously injured after being attacked by a mob in East 
Jaintia Hills district ...


      Agnes Kharshiing critical but stable – The Shillong Times


www.theshillongtimes.com › MEGHALAYA › Agnes Kharshiing critical but stable
<http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2018/11/09/agnes-kharshiing-critical-but-stable/>
1 day ago - SHILLONG: Condition of the CSWO president, /Agnes 
Kharshiing/ who was attacked by a mob along with one of her colleagues 
is critical but ...


      2 arrested in Meghalaya activist Agnes Kharshiing's murder attempt
      case


https://nenow.in/.../2-arrested-in-meghalaya-activist-agnes-kharshiings-murder-attemp...
<https://nenow.in/north-east-news/2-arrested-in-meghalaya-activist-agnes-kharshiings-murder-attempt-case.html>
2 days ago - In connection with murder attempt on Meghalaya activist 
/Agnes Kharshiing/ and two others in East Jaintia Hills district, two 
persons have been ...
On 2018/11/11 05:10, Albertina Almeida via WSM-Discuss wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> I was wondering if in this WSF event beginning 12th, you can organise 
> a solidarity protest against the murderous attempt on the life of 
> Agnes Kharshiing, anti-mining activist in North East India, and on her 
> colleague Amita Sangma and their driver E Kurba, after Agenes had a 
> lodged a complaint on the illegal mining and transportation of coal at 
> Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya
>
> Albertina
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 1:05 AM Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za 
> <mailto:pbond at mail.ngo.za>> wrote:
>
>     (If you're near Joburg, this tribunal against TNCs underway now -
>     including tomorrow - is excellent. And be sure to come for the
>     opening plenary on Monday which will turn into a protest against
>     AngloGold Ashanti next door, in the mining precinct of Newtown.)
>
>     https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/mining-conflicts-multiply-as-critics-of-extractivism-gather-in-johannesburg/
>
>     *Mining conflicts multiply, as critics of ‘extractivism’ gather in
>     Johannesburg *
>
>     By Patrick Bond
>
>     The World Social Forum’s ‘Thematic Forum on Mining and
>     Extractivism <https://www.thematicsocialforum.org/>’ convenes from
>     November 12-15 here in Johannesburg, just after the Southern
>     Africa People’s Tribunal on Transnational Corporations
>     <http://aidc.org.za/3rd-session-peoples-permanent-tribunal/>. In
>     between, at the notorious 2012 massacre site on the platinum belt
>     to the west, there’s a launch of a new book – /Business as Usual
>     after Marikana
>     <http://www.jacana.co.za/book-categories/new-releases-65840/business-as-usual-after-marikana-detail>
>     /– critical not only of the mining house Lonmin but of its
>     international financiers and buyers.
>
>     This is the moment for a profoundly critical standpoint to take
>     root, unhindered by ineffectual reformism associated with
>     Corporate Social Responsibility
>     <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317906599/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315848341-18>
>     gimmicks and the mining sector’s civilised-society watchdogging at
>     the mainly uncritical
>     <https://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/we-need-real-%E2%80%9Calternatives-mining%E2%80%9D-indaba>
>     Alternative Mining Indaba. That NGO-dominated event occurs
>     annually in Cape Town every February, at the same time and place
>     where the extractive mega-corporations gather.
>
>     The Thematic Forum firmly opposes
>     <https://www.thematicsocialforum.org/> ‘extractivism.’ Unlike the
>     Indaba
>     <https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/13/disconnecting-the-minerals-energy-climate-dots/>,
>     it aims to connect the dots between oppressions, defining its
>     target as extraction of “so-called natural resources” in a way
>     that is “devastating and degrading,” since mining exacerbates
>     “conditions of global warming and climate injustice. It subjects
>     local economies to a logic of accumulation that privately benefits
>     corporations,” and represses “traditional, indigenous and peasant
>     communities by violations of human rights, affecting in particular
>     the lives of women and children.”
>
>     The last point is not incidental, as two of the main organisers
>     are the Southern Africa Rural Women's Assembly
>     <https://www.facebook.com/SARuralWomen/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD2VrKCXK7yqD6rKMom_LW-6VGnCS9Imhl70G2O_nUmjBvNx6LR_TsMqsq8kkxd_sGdBOX-kXp0H6kcjoQMvp1ZhvT3CmkqXD_ohBwVANwOrcoEdqRRWRBJzU-ZU9Ycc2uKiNZykrD8yrsRV_i4qc7pcMUSw8e940KT8T054yK95L_jUsPTYi5ajei5E7KdGXaR9TKsoS7a-eCIRN0NpSs-Mwc&__tn__=K-R>
>     and the WoMin <https://womin.org.za/> network: “African Women
>     Unite Against Destructive Resource Extraction.” Inspired by
>     Amadiba Crisis Committee activists in the Eastern Cape’s Wild
>     Coast, they’ve campaigned hard for the _#Right2SayNo
>     <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/right2sayno?source=feed_text&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD2VrKCXK7yqD6rKMom_LW-6VGnCS9Imhl70G2O_nUmjBvNx6LR_TsMqsq8kkxd_sGdBOX-kXp0H6kcjoQMvp1ZhvT3CmkqXD_ohBwVANwOrcoEdqRRWRBJzU-ZU9Ycc2uKiNZykrD8yrsRV_i4qc7pcMUSw8e940KT8T054yK95L_jUsPTYi5ajei5E7KdGXaR9TKsoS7a-eCIRN0NpSs-Mwc&__tn__=%2ANK-R>_.
>
>
>     Last month, such rights language proved invaluable in the
>     Constitutional Court here in Johannesburg, when the Itireleng
>     community won
>     <https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-11-01-maledu-judgment-victory-for-the-constitution-over-mining-evictions/>
>     a judgement <http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/2018/41.html>
>     against displacement from their farm, under attack by a local
>     platinum mining house. (This was pleasantly surprising to many of
>     us who are Court critics, given how much corporate power
>     <https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Corporate+rights+in+South+Africa.-a019528162>
>     is hardwired into South Africa’s founding document.)
>
>     On the Wild Coast last month, South Africa’s Mining Minister Gwede
>     Mantashe
>     <https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-09-27-from-xolobeni-to-the-mining-charter-community-members-marginalised/>
>     had shown how desperately he wants investment by the likes of
>     aggressive Australian titanium mining firm MRC
>     <https://www.moneyweb.co.za/mineweb/mining-companies-investment/awkward-questions-get-short-shrift-at-mrc-annual-general-meeting/>.
>     But the Amadiba Crisis Committee
>     <https://www.facebook.com/amadibacrisiscommittee/> and its allies
>     have consistently shown their ability to say “No!”
>
>     *No means no*
>
>     The Forum’s opening morning features a demonstration at the nearby
>     world headquarters of AngloGold Ashanti, the locally-listed firm
>     shamed in 2005 by Human Rights Watch
>     <https://www.hrw.org/report/2005/06/01/curse-gold> for its
>     alliances with warlords during the minerals-related murder of
>     millions of people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the
>     Congo. In 2011, AngloGold Ashanti won the title “world’s most
>     irresponsible corporation” at the ‘Davos Public Eye’ ceremony
>     <https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=202199>
>     organised outside the World Economic Forum by Greenpeace and the
>     Berne Declaration.
>
>     Since then the firm has attracted even more intense community,
>     labour, feminist and environmental protests from Chile
>     <http://ejatlas.org/conflict/mina-cerro-vanguardia> to Colombia
>     <https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2018/03/27/how-a-tiny-colombian-village-beat-the-worlds-third-largest-gold-mining-company/>
>     to Ghana
>     <http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/mar/30/profiteering-mars-record-black-african-gold-mining/>
>     to Guinea
>     <http://www.miningweekly.com/article/anglogold-ashantis-guinea-mine-hit-by-violent-power-cuts-protests-2018-06-28>
>     to Tanzania <https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/1/1/3/htm>, as well as
>     at home in South Africa
>     <https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-06-29-miners-rise-up-and-march-as-anglo-gold-ashanti-fires-salvo-to-cut-8500-jobs/>
>     over mass retrenchments, inadequate pay and delay of
>     silicosis-related compensation payments. It’s a sick company, with
>     its Johannesburg Stock Exchange price having fallen by more than
>     half since a mid-2016 peak (and even further from its 2006-12 JSE
>     valuations).
>
>     Criticised
>     <https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/mining/2018-07-23-anglogold-ashanti-appoints-barricks-kelvin-dushnisky-as-ceo/>
>     by investors who believe “AngloGold has not matched up to its
>     global peers” in large part because of less profitable South
>     African holdings, AngloGold Ashanti is rapidly exiting its home
>     country. The firm
>     <https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Anglo_American_and_the_rise_of_modern_So.html?id=cYhkAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y>
>     made its fortune during the notorious 20^th century era of extreme
>     apartheid extractivism when it was run by the Oppenheimer family.
>     Perhaps even worse is the new boss, Kelvin Dushnisky
>     <https://tanzaniabusinessethics.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/kelvin-dushnisky-accountable-for-crimes-violations-human-rights-abuses-damages/>,
>     who has presided over Toronto-based Barrick (the world's largest
>     gold producer, known in Africa as Acacia) during its recent reign
>     of mining terrorism <http://protestbarrick.net/>, including mass
>     rape <http://protestbarrick.net/article.php@id=1007.html>.
>
>     The mining corporations under fire at the Forum are not only the
>     typical pinstriped, ethics-challenged cowboys from the
>     London-Toronto-Melbourne-Joburg circuits. Next door in Mozambique,
>     Rio-based Vale’s coal-mining operations at Moatize were disrupted
>     last month, according
>     <https://clubofmozambique.com/news/vale-mozambique-suspends-activities-in-moatize-after-protests-watch/>
>     to activist allies at the Associação de Apoio e Assistência
>     Jurídica às Comunidades, due to “excessive pollution [and]
>     acceleration of the decay of  houses due to explosion of dynamites.”
>
>     Albeit trying to “mask brutal exploitation with the language of
>     South-South solidarity,” as documented
>     <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/vale-corporation-brazil-mining-lula-mozambique-brics>
>     by Canadian researcher Judith Marshall, Vale is brutal in numerous
>     jurisdictions, judged by Berne Declaration and the Brazilian
>     Movement of Landless Workers as worst company in the world
>     <https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/01/30/worst-company-in-the-world-award-goes-to/#76f601d76a0a>
>     in 2012 due to “its labour relations, community impact and
>     environmental record.”
>
>     In Mozambique, Vale as well as the Indian firms Coal of India,
>     Vedanta and Jindal have been criticised for displacement and
>     destruction. Community protests
>     <https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mzoambique-coal-and-resettlement-by-joseph-hanlon/>
>     against foreign companies are prolific in coal-rich Tete Province.
>     Further east, on the Mozambican coastline, beach sands in some
>     communities have been destroyed by the voracious Chinese firm Haiyu.
>
>     Complains
>     <https://mg.co.za/article/2018-10-16-they-have-taken-our-beautiful-sand-from-us-and-left-nothing>
>     a local resident who can no longer carry out fishing subsistence,
>     Nassire Omar, “They owe us because they have taken our beautiful
>     sand from us and left nothing. We don’t know the quantity of the
>     sand that they took over seven years, but we know that they
>     profited from it and we want our dues. They have taken all the
>     riches here and left us with nothing.”
>
>     But it may be that Vedanta <http://www.foilvedanta.org/> and its
>     boss Anil Agarwal – who is also Anglo American Corporation’s
>     largest single investor with more than 20% of shares – has
>     witnessed the most sustained protest, including a mass protest in
>     May against the ThoothukudiSterlite copper plant which his
>     officials responded to with a massacre of 13 Indians demanding an
>     end to pollution.
>
>     Protest against Africa’s largest copper mine, Konkola, centres on
>     1,826 Zambian farmers
>     <http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/knowledge/publications/158040/emlungowe-v-vedantaem-appeal-highlights-important-points-regarding-parent-company-liability>
>     poisoned by Vedanta. Just before the London Stock Exchange
>     delisting of Vedanta last month, popular reggae musician Maiko
>     Zulu protested
>     <https://www.lusakatimes.com/2018/09/28/maiko-zulu-released-after-kcm-protest/>
>     (and was arrested) at the British High Commission in Lusaka,
>     demanding that authorities deny Agarwal his escape from London
>     prior to justice being served. Agarwal bought
>     <http://www.foilvedanta.org/?s=Konkola> that mine for $25 million
>     in 2004 and a decade later bragged
>     <https://www.lusakaftimes.com/2014/05/13/video-vedanta-boss-saying-kcm-makes-500-million-profit-per-year/>
>     that ever since he had taken $500 million to $1 billion home from
>     Konkola /annually./
>
>     Maiko Zulu just before arrest at British High Commission, Lusaka,
>     27 September 2018
>
>     *After extractivism*
>
>     These sorts of Western+BRICS modes of super-exploitation exemplify
>     the mineral, oil and gas looting
>     <https://www.pambazuka.org/economics/new-evidence-africa%E2%80%99s-systematic-looting-provided-increasingly-schizophrenic-world-bank>
>     underway across Africa. The uncompensated extraction of
>     non-renewable resources amounts to an estimated $150 billion
>     annually, far more even than the $50-80 billion Illicit Financial
>     Flows and $50 billion in legal profit repatriation from Africa by
>     mining and petroleum firms.
>
>     But increasingly, mining houses are pushing the people and
>     environment too far, and resistance is rising. As Anglo American
>     Corporation leader Mark Cutifani remarked
>     <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/miners-offer-clinics-bull-rings-as-protests-tie-up-25-billion>
>     in 2015, “There’s something like $25 billion worth of projects
>     tied up or stopped” by mining critics across the world.
>
>     How activists can increase that figure is the topic of next week’s
>     discussions, along with moving from these critiques to strategies
>     for post-extractivist systems of political economy, political
>     ecology and social reproduction.
>
>     (Patrick Bond – pbond at mail.ngo.za <mailto:pbond at mail.ngo.za> –
>     teaches political economy at the Wits University School of
>     Governance in Johannesburg.)
>
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