Protest call out! Vedanta AGM, 1st August, London.

1st August, 2pm. The London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, W1K 6JP.

Please spread the word and join us for this year’s Vedan­ta AGM demo (fly­er attached). Affin­i­ty group actions/street theatre/banners etc encour­aged. This will be an inter­na­tion­al day of action and is usu­al­ly well cov­ered in Indi­an and UK news­pa­pers.

We will bring the defiant energy of the Dongria Kond tribe to London, as they fight the final stages of their 10 years battle for survival against Vedanta’s planned mega mine.

Parallel demonstrations are already planned in Odisha and Delhi in India on this international day of action.

Bring drums, placards, banners and lots of energy!

JOIN OUR GRASSROOTS SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT TO STOP THIS KILLER CORPORATE!

Vedan­ta Resources is a FTSE 100 British-Indi­an min­ing com­pa­ny guilty of thou­sands of deaths, envi­ron­men­tal dev­as­ta­tion, anti union action, cor­rup­tion and dis­dain for life on earth. They have become one of the most hat­ed and con­tentious com­pa­nies in the world.

In Odisha, India they are try­ing to mine a moun­tain inhab­it­ed by an ancient tribe – the Don­gria Kond – who have suc­cess­ful­ly fought them off for more than 10 years. Their fight is in its final stages, and we need to mobilise all our ener­gy to ensure Vedan­ta is kicked out of the Niyam­giri moun­tains for­ev­er.

Vedan­ta is now diver­si­fy­ing into oil and gas, and expand­ing into Africa, Sri Lan­ka and pos­si­bly even the Arc­tic. They cur­rent­ly oper­ate in Zam­bia, South Africa, Liberia, Namib­ia, Aus­tralia, Sri Lan­ka, and across India.

Since last year’s AGM Vedan­ta are guilty of a major tox­ic gas leak affect­ing thou­sands of peo­ple at their Ster­lite sub­sidiary cop­per smelter in Tuti­corin, Tamil Nadu. At their Jhar­sug­u­da Alu­mini­um com­plex they released fly ash over farm­land pol­lut­ing rivers and vil­lages. In Zam­bia they tried to fire 2000 work­ers from their Konko­la Cop­per mines and smelter before being stopped by the Zam­bian Gov­ern­ment. One Zam­bian employ­ee was shot dead at the plant.

At Niyam­giri, Odisha, Vedan­ta with it’s cronies in the Odisha state gov­ern­ment are try­ing to force their mega baux­ite mine through at any cost. They are using police harass­ment, manip­u­la­tion, threats and dis­tor­tion of the legal sys­tem to pre­vent the Don­gria Kond from vot­ing against the project in the com­ing weeks. Forces have even opened fire on women and chil­dren threat­en­ing them not to oppose the mine. But the Don­gria are stronger than ever and pre­pared to fight tooth and nail to save their moun­tain in these final stages.

Vedan­ta are sup­port­ed by the British gov­ern­ment, as well as our banks, pen­sion funds and finan­cial insti­tu­tions. Vedan­ta is 64.9% owned by CEO Anil Agar­w­al and his fam­i­ly via var­i­ous tax havens. Top share­hold­ers include Stan­dard Life, Black­rock inc. and JP Mor­gan – the same financiers of South African min­er Lon­min who shot and killed 34 protest­ing mine work­ers in August 2012.

 

Foil Vedan­ta is a sol­i­dar­i­ty move­ment work­ing direct­ly with those affect­ed by Vedan­ta in India and else­where. We are cur­rent­ly try­ing to get Vedan­ta de-list­ed from the Lon­don Stock Exchange.

Please join activists who will be ral­ly­ing in Odisha, Goa and Del­hi on 1^st August as part of an inter­na­tion­al day of action to stop this killer cor­po­rate and it’s sup­port­ers.

We will be ral­ly­ing out­side Vedanta’s Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Don­gria Kond tribe of Odisha.