Resist Glencore
It is our responsibility in the Global North to fight in solidarity with peoples in the Global South for climate justice and reparations.
This is why we need to hold Glencore accountable for their actions and impede
their efforts of extractavism.
The ‘resource extraction’ of Glencore displaces communities, funds violence by paramilitaries and plunders ancestral land in Colombia, as well as across the world.
Glencore’s business is built on colonialist ideas of dispensable land and communities, whilst their bosses live in luxury in Europe.
WHO?
The anglo-swiss mining corporation Glencore and its Colombian subsidiary Prodeco is one of the major companies responsible for the ongoing removal and destruction of indigenous lands.
With a yearly revenue of more than USD200,000 billion, Glencore is one of the world’s biggest trading companies. Their enormous ever-growing profits are, however, fundamentally built upon indigenous dispossession, the super-exploitation of hundreds of thousands of mine workers across the world, and the large-scale degradation and depletion of the environment. Driving cultural and physical genocide and ecocide, Glencore is undoubtedly a killer corporation.
The ever-growing profits of Glencore and their partners are built on the exploitation of communities, such as the Yukpa people of Colombia and Venezuela.
We stand in resistance against the trans-national corporation Glencore and in solidarity with the Yukpa people of Colombia.
MISSION
WHAT?
The ‘resource extraction’ of Glencore displaces communities, funds violence by paramilitaries and plunders ancestral land in Colombia, as well as across the world.
Glencore’s business is built on colonialist ideas of dispensable land and communities, whilst their bosses live in luxury in Europe.
We want to explore possibilities of how we can end Glencore acts of violence. Our goal goes far beyond simply receiving symbolic yet meaningless compensation payments: We are fighting for the corporate decolonisation of indigenous lands, long term reparations, and for justice as defined by the Yukpas themselves.
WHY?
Today, the natural environment which used to sustain the Yupkas ancestors’ way of life and continues to be vital to the survival of the Yukpas is severely degraded: rivers have been contaminated, dried up, and diverted, forests are burnt and cut down and biodiversity is vanishing rapidly. The biggest threat to the Yukpa people are multinational mining and oil corporations operating on their ancestral lands in violation of the constitutional right to prior consultation of indigenous communities in political decision making processes which concern and affect them.
Whilst mining activities in places like Colombia might feel far away from our daily lives in other parts of the world, we are far from disconnected from the struggle of the Yukpas. Not only are Glencore’s headquarters and centres of power located just outside our doorstep, but we are also daily consumers of products made with the oils and minerals that Glencore extracts from indigenous lands.
Most fundamentally, however, we all share the same home: We all live on, through, and from the same earth, which is a sensitive and fragile organism in itself, and whose destruction at one place has devastating consequences for its overall balance and thus the wellbeing and survival of its inhabitants everywhere. Acknowledging this inherent interconnectivity and co-dependence, our aim is to fight hand in hand with the Yukpas in order to hold Glencore accountable.
Goal 1
Ending Glencores’ social license and ability to continue exploiting the
global south.
Indigenous communities have been rising up against violent, extractive companies for generations and we must join them in this fight. Please do donate to if you are able to.
Goal 2
Pressuring/convincing Glencore shareholders to pull out/divest , dismantling corporate extractivism, neo-colonialism, and capitalism.
Goal 3
Widening the campaign to incorporate a variety of communities negatively affected by Glencore’s activities.
