BHP AGM Solidarity Demonstration
Westminster, London. Thu 19 Oct 2017
A protester from Arizona speaks in front of the QEII building where
the BHP AGM is about to take place
he and other protesters had bought single shares so they can go in
to the AGM and ask questions
Another campaigner BHP's Resolution Copper Mine, on land sacred to
the San Carlos Apache Tribe in a nature reserve
Campaigners from South America where the Samarco Dam disaster in Brazil
has polluted huge areas,
people going into the QEII centre look at a map showing 25 communities are
being focibly evicted to enable BHP's
huge expansion plans for the Cerrejon coalfield
People going in to the BHP AGM have to walk past the display of the
villages, while protesters apologise over-profusely
and move the villages out of their way
Campaigners hold a Medact banner about the Samarco Dam in Brazil 'Is
Life Worth A Dam
Cerrejon plan and villages are moved out of the way of another man
apparently going to the BHP AGM
and they persuade on e man to walk over the plan on the ground
The shareholder campaigners begin to make their way into the AGM
and others continue the protest as more people arrive at the QEII
centre
'BHP Keep Your Bloody Hands off Intag!' - a mine which would destroy
the bio-diverse Ecuadorian forest
SOS Colombia - children died - starvation, lack of water cuased by BHP Cerrejon
coal mine - which supplies a third of the UK's coal
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