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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Richard Solly on Extractivism
  and Mining - Richard Solly (Coordinator\, London Mining Network)
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CONTACT:Anusha Arumugam
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 r-series-richard-solly-extractivism-mining-tickets-504757010807?utm-campai
 gn=social\n\nABSTRACT: CGHR runs a Practitioner Series each year in Lent t
 erm\, Jan to March\, which often features rights activists\, aid practitio
 ners and journalists etc. \nOur speakers relate stories about their own ex
 perience — how they came to work in the field that they are in — with 
 details about what the work itself involves. The session thus offers a com
 bination of substantive discussion of the speaker’s work and critical vi
 ews on the challenges of working in their area\, as well as personal and p
 ractical insights into how they ended up doing what they do and how they w
 ould advise others thinking about practice/policy as a possible future aft
 er studies/research.\n\nCGHR's Practitioner Series provides students (both
  undergrads and postgrads) and researchers with the chance to ask question
 s of people that they might not normally have access to.\n\nIn this sessio
 n\, we speak to Richard Solly. Richard has been Co-ordinator of London Min
 ing Network since its launch in April 2007. He has worked on mining and In
 digenous Peoples’ rights since 1991\, and was involved in the London-bas
 ed Minewatch Collective and the Mines and Communities network which grew o
 ut of it. He was one of the original members of the Colombia Solidarity Ca
 mpaign from 2001 and administered Partizans (People Against Rio Tinto Zinc
  And Subsidiaries) from 2003 to 2022.\nPrior to his involvement with the M
 inewatch Collective\, Richard worked on Indigenous land rights in Alberta\
 , Canada\, from 1989\, mainly with the Edmonton Interfaith Committee on Ab
 original Rights and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate of Grandin Province. Th
 e main threats to Indigenous land rights in Alberta at that time were oil\
 , gas and logging companies.\nRichard was born in Maidstone\, Kent\, in 19
 59. His father was a potter\, his mother a dressmaker. Both families had v
 ery deep roots in Kent.\nRichard studied History at Magdalen College\, Oxf
 ord\, from 1978 to 1981\, taking a particular interest in medieval church 
 history\, was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York from 
 1982 to 1984\, and studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at St John’
 s Seminary\, Wonersh\, from 1984 to 1987. He is a member of the Community 
 of the Passion\, a Catholic religious community.\n
LOCATION:In person\, SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, University of Cambrid
 ge
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