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Human Rights Commission Charges Freeport Mining Company With “Severe Violations”

Human Rights Commission Charges Freeport Mining Company With “Severe Violations”

Freeport had the ability to prevent this accident from happening but didn’t. The lack of effort jeopardized the lives of others. The gravity of this case is serious. Freeport has taken much from the people of ...

28 workers die in Freeport McMoran tunnel collapse
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28 workers die in Freeport McMoran tunnel collapse

Video art about the devil Richard K. Adkerson and the Freeport-McMoran mining company. Freeport-McMoran owns the Grasberg mine in Timika, West Papua, the scene of a recent tunnel collapse killing 28 miners. ...

Freeport-McMoran Protest in Phoenix on December 14th
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Freeport-McMoran Protest in Phoenix on December 14th

Environmental and humanrights groups protest outside the headquarters of Freeport McMoRan in Phoenix AZ. Protest groups included Occupy Phoenix, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network, and the Sierra Club. ...

London 2012 & Rio Tinto – The Great Olympic Greenwash
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London 2012 & Rio Tinto – The Great Olympic Greenwash

London will soon play host to the 2012 Olympics, which organisers boast will be the most environmentally friendly ever. But with the metal for all the medals coming from one huge polluting hole in the ground in Utah, ...

Vote Rio Tinto for Greenwash Gold 2012
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Vote Rio Tinto for Greenwash Gold 2012

Rio Tinto is bad news for many communities around the world. Its operations have failed to provide adequate protection of public health, the environment, workers and human rights. It is a scandal that it should be pr ...

Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is
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Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is

Mike Dillard, chief executive officer of Century Martial Arts and a prominent area developer, is a well known adrenaline junkie — but even he admits he was shaken by his latest adventure. What began as a recen ...

The Jayapura Five: Our Choices and Actions Do Affect the Lives of Others

The Jayapura Five: Our Choices and Actions Do Affect the Lives of Others

The actions of one country can seriously influence lives elsewhere. West Papua is a case in point, a seemingly small and remote area of the world, but nonetheless home to 245 different tribal peoples, each with their ...

Freeport Indonesia to renegotiate mining contract

Freeport Indonesia to renegotiate mining contract

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc will renegotiate their contract with the Indonesian government that allows it to run Grasberg, the second largest copper mine in the world, the energy ministry said on Thursday. ...

Vote Freeport McMoran the Most Evil Company of 2011

Vote Freeport McMoran the Most Evil Company of 2011

The annual Public Eye Awards selects 6 of the most unethical and abusive corporations from a long list of nominations. Support West Papua and vote for Freeport McMoran this year for worst company. ...

West Papua: More TNI goon squads to guard Freeport

West Papua: More TNI goon squads to guard Freeport

Around 600 Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers have arrived in Timika, Papua, to help local police guarding areas near PT Freeport Indonesia, where deadly shootings occurred in recent months. ...

Workers Still Underpaid, Freeport Resumes its Plunder of West Papua

Workers Still Underpaid, Freeport Resumes its Plunder of West Papua

“Freeport has long been the source of conflict… A majority of Papuans, who have different ethnic and religious roots to their political leaders in Jakarta, want independence.” In the U.S., Occupy P ...

27 Villages Burned, 131 Relocated Overnight in Paniai, West Papua

27 Villages Burned, 131 Relocated Overnight in Paniai, West Papua

Thousands of people have reportedly fled in terror from a large area in Paniai, West Papua as a massive combined Police and military offensive attacked villages on December 13... ...

EngageMedia: The Freeport Dispute
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EngageMedia: The Freeport Dispute

A snippet of footage and chatters around the Freeport strike in West Papua. The Freeport workers' union says it is a matter of simple "revenue transparency", the international trade union says the dispute "has nothin ...

West Papua – Freeport Workers and Tribesmen Defend Road Blockades

West Papua – Freeport Workers and Tribesmen Defend Road Blockades

Police failed to lift road blockades stopping fuel and food reaching Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold's mining operations in West Papua, after clashes with striking miners and local tribesmen on Friday ...

Freeport Halts Gold Production in West Papua

Freeport Halts Gold Production in West Papua

U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold Inc. halted production at its gold and copper mine in Indonesia's restive province of Papua on Monday over security concerns. ...

What’s Behind Violence At World’s Largest Goldmine?

What’s Behind Violence At World’s Largest Goldmine?

“This latest incident shows that Indonesian police have not learned how to deal with protesters without resorting to excessive, and even lethal, force,” said Amnesty International’s Sam Zarifi ...

Freeport is emblematic of much that is wrong in West Papua.

Freeport is emblematic of much that is wrong in West Papua.

Indigenous Papuans are waging a four-decade long nonviolent struggle for independence from Indonesia. At the heart of Papuan grievances lies Freeport, the world’s largest gold and copper mine... ...

Freeport McMoRan: Crushing Hope and Killing Freedom in West Papua

Freeport McMoRan: Crushing Hope and Killing Freedom in West Papua

The US mining firm Freeport McMoRan has been accused of everything from polluting the environment to funding repression in its four decades working in the Indonesian province of Papua. Freeport is a symbol of everyth ...

Freeport: Claiming Corporate Social Responsibility from Atop a Mountain of Corpses

Freeport: Claiming Corporate Social Responsibility from Atop a Mountain of Corpses

What does a mining company need to do to get a top score for “corporate social responsibility”? To judge by the recent “100 Best Corporate Citizens List”, all it takes to finesse a long and co ...

West Papua: Indonesian Soldiers Implicated in Brutal Murder

West Papua: Indonesian Soldiers Implicated in Brutal Murder

Authorities are investigating at least two soldiers in connection with the brutal slaying of two Freeport-Indonesia security men in a mysterious dusk ambush two months ago. ...