Professor Anu Muhammad

Corporate Grabbing and Plundering of Resources in Bangladesh: Who Runs the Country – Government or the Greedy Monsters On the 28th of September 2014, Professor Anu Muhammad, the member secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Port-Power and Mineral Resources in Bangladesh, has delivered a keynote speech in a Public Meeting about ‘Corporate Grabbing and Plundering of Common …

Thousands Took Actions Against AGM of Miner GCM, Forcing Its Directors to Step Back

PRESS RELEASE: Phulbari Solidarity Coalition 21 March 2020, London For immediate release Three thousands climate justice campaigners from across the world have taken online action against the AGM of GCM Resources, as GCM planned meeting neglecting social distancing during London lockdown last Friday. The four-fold online-action was launched on Wednesday 18th March to expose GCM, […]

Call on GCM’s Directors and CEO to #HandsOffPhulbari

The below is a suggested format of the letter to GCM’s Directors and the CEO. To personalise and to flood the GCM’s directors, CEO and communication and media inboxes, please Feel Free to edit, amend and rephrase the letter. Thanks. 20 March 2020, London. Gary Norman Lye Alternate Director and CEO & Datuk Michael […]

PRESS RELEASE: GCM postpones AGM again, citing security concerns

9th March 2020,London, For Immediate Release Phulbari Solidarity Coalition Controversial London-listed mining company GCM have postponed Tuesday’s AGM again, with less than 24 hours notice, citing “security concerns”. Communities in Phulbari have demonstrated in the town centre on Monday morning opposing GCM’s London AGM. Due to sudden AGM postponement, angry transnational protesters in London […]

Phulbari Resistance was made possible by Women’s Uprising against Coal Mining

Linking Climate Injustice to Women’s Struggle By Rumana Hashem This is a reporting from the frontline of climate activism in northwest Bangladesh, and an eyewitness to coal-led bloodshed, and women’s resistance against mining in a post-colonial location in South Asia. The discussion tells us about the Truth – who should we save, on the one […]

PRESS RELEASE:Protesters in London and Bangladesh oppose AGM of GCM Resources Plc

For immediate release 6 March 2020, London. Loud and dramatic protests will be held outside of GCM Resources’ rescheduled AGM on Tuesday 10th March between 9am-11.30am at Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, London, SE1 9DD, after GCM Resources announces date with just 9 days notice. The London-listed mining company has cancelled their last year’s […]