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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to this book launch tonight

Latin America Bureau (LAB) @latinamericabureau.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for the launch of 'The Congress of the Disappeared', the brand-new novella by Bernardo Kucinski translated by Tom Gatehouse with support from @englishpen.bsky.social
tomorrow, 7 October at Photobook Cafe near Old Street, London, with @brazilmatters.bsky.social and @amnestyuk.bsky.social

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 5d

US attacks another boat in Venezuelan waters - a clear violation of international law

At least 21 people have been killed in four US strikes on boats near Venezuela in recent weeks

The Trump administration has provided no evidence of its claims they were carrying drugs

apnews.com/article/trum...

Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, expanding what the Trump administration has declared is an “arme...

apnews.com

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 6d

An important book

Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Mar 3

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 6d

The UK's Critical Mineral Strategy (2022) lauds Anglo American as an example of a responsible mining company

Yet I've just been reporting from Chile where it has been fined numerous times for environmental infractions

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster

www.theguardian.com

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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 6d

📣As the UK prepares to launch a new Critical Minerals Strategy, Cristóbal Rodríguez (spokesperson for MODATIMA) takes a deep dive into the previous strategy from the perspective of mining affected communities in Chile.
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/crit...
#CriticalMinerals #JustTransition

Critical Minerals, Empty Rhetoric: A Look at the UK's Critical Minerals Strategy from the MODATIMA movement in Chile - London Mining Network

London Mining Network - Holding the Mining Industry to Account

londonminingnetwork.org

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 6d

I'm editing a book with @tanyaharmer.bsky.social on the Chilean solidarity movement in UK in 1970s and 1980s -

recovering these moments of British internationalism

@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 6d

I've been reading a testimony of a Chilean exile who came to Britain after Pinochet's coup in 1970s

Her family were welcomed by a delegation of Scottish miners, playing bagpipes. Her house was furnished by donations from the local community

Isn't that the way to welcome refugees?

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 6d

Atrocious attack in Manchester. Love and solidarity to the Jewish community.
We must stand together against hate.

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 7d

Cleaners at University College London (UCL) are on strike

They are threatened with job losses and cuts
Many of the workers are Latin Americans and people of colour

@ucu.org.uk lecturers, students and local anti-racist groups joined a rally in support today.

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 7d

Anti-racists outnumbered the far right outside Downing Street today.
They shouted:
‘We will not be silent.
Smash the far right. Refugees welcome here’

@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 13d

I wrote a review of Hayley Cohen Gilliland's wonderful book about the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in @thetls.bsky.social

It focuses on the inspiring life of Rosa Roisinblit, who died this month. She dedicated her life to finding people 'disappeared' by the dictatorship in Argentina.

https://www.the-tls.com/politics-society/social-cultural-studies/a-flower-traveled-in-my-blood-hayley-cohen-gilliland-review-grace-livingstone

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 16d

Anglo American acusada de causar:

enfermedades humanas
muertes de animales
contaminación del aire y el agua

y perforaciones bajo glaciares

Mi informe desde Chile

@obsclima.bsky.social @obsmineracao.bsky.social @criordor.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster

www.theguardian.com

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 16d

Anglo American acusada de causar:

enfermedades humanas
muertes de animales
contaminación del aire y el agua

y perforaciones bajo glaciares

Mi informe desde Chile

@obsclima.bsky.social @obsmineracao.bsky.social @criordor.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster

www.theguardian.com

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 16d

Anglo American accused of causing:

human illness
animal deaths
contamination of air and water

& drilling under glaciers

My report from Chile

@clascam.bsky.social @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social @nujlfb.bsky.social @latinamericabureau.bsky.social @waronwant.bsky.social

www.com/global-devel...

Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster

www.theguardian.com

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 23

Chilean govt to expropriate part of Colonia Dignidad - German sect colony where opponents of Pinochet ‘disappeared’

I spoke about this on BBC From Our Own Correspondent today

Also on the prog today @tombatemandc.bsky.social on Trump and Jean MacKenzie on N Korea

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 17

Chilean govt to expropriate part of Colonia Dignidad - German sect colony where opponents of Pinochet ‘disappeared’

My story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once home to a cult, the Chilean tourist village haunted by torture and child abuse

Chile wants to turn the site where a cult leader tortured prisoners and abused his followers into a memorial.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Latin America Bureau (LAB) @latinamericabureau.bsky.social · Aug 21

Once known as Colonia Dignidad, it was home to a secretive religious sect founded by a manipulative and abusive leader who collaborated with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet... Story from @graceliv.bsky.social

Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 17

Chilean govt to expropriate part of Colonia Dignidad - German sect colony where opponents of Pinochet ‘disappeared’

My story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once home to a cult, the Chilean tourist village haunted by torture and child abuse

Chile wants to turn the site where a cult leader tortured prisoners and abused his followers into a memorial.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 17

Chilean govt to expropriate part of Colonia Dignidad - German sect colony where opponents of Pinochet ‘disappeared’

My story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once home to a cult, the Chilean tourist village haunted by torture and child abuse

Chile wants to turn the site where a cult leader tortured prisoners and abused his followers into a memorial.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 17

Chilean govt to expropriate part of Colonia Dignidad - German sect colony where opponents of Pinochet ‘disappeared’

My story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once home to a cult, the Chilean tourist village haunted by torture and child abuse

Chile wants to turn the site where a cult leader tortured prisoners and abused his followers into a memorial.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 13

Correction: 194 journalists have been confirmed killed in Palestine since October 7th.

NUJ members will be holding up their names outside Downing Street tonight.

londonfreelance.org/fl/2311gaza-...

There have been several more unconfirmed deaths of journalists in Gaza. @nujlfb.bsky.social

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 12

186 journalists killed in Palestine since October 7th, more than any other conflict

NUJ Freelance branch holding a vigil tomorrow in London

NUJ London Freelance Branch 🗞️ @nujlfb.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨 ISRAEL, STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS
NUJ London Freelance Branch Vigil
Wednesday 13 August, 5.30pm
Opposite Downing Street

Please join us!
#JournalismIsNotACrime #StopKillingJournalists #PressFreedom

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Aug 11

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Two Al Jazeera journalists & 3 camera-men killed yesterday

Al Jazeera describe it as targeted attack on a journalists tent in Gaza City by Israel

Their names: Ibrahim Zaher
Mohammed Noufal
Moamen Aliwa
Anas al-Sharif
Mohammed Qreiqeh

@nujlfb.bsky.social

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Jun 5

Indigenous community of Arimae in Darien, Panama complain of police repression, raids and tear gas - after general strike and national protests.

I reported fromArimae in 2022 and it shocking to see these scenes posted today by www.radiotemblor.org

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · May 28

US company Chiquita has sacked thousands of banana plantation workers in Panama for going on strike

They were striking about new laws that affect their pension rights

Last week, the company ended all their contracts, Radio Temblor reports

www.radiotemblor.org/chiquita-des...

Chiquita despide a miles de trabajadores en huelga – Colectivo Voces Ecológicas

La protesta bananera, encabezada en la zona de Bocas de Toro por el Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria del Banano y Empresas Afines (Sitraibana), se suma a las movilizaciones que se están dando a nivel nacional.

www.radiotemblor.org

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · May 28

General strike continues in Panama

It's against pension cuts, the re-opening of a huge foreign-owned copper mine & allowing the USA to use military bases in Panama

www.radiotemblor.org

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · May 23

Lawyer & human rights activist Ruth Lopez has been arbitrarily detained in El Salvador

- a sign of the country's further descent into authoritarianism

She's been illegally detained for 4 days now

She was one of the BBC’s 100 most influential women 2024
@latinamericabureau.bsky.social

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · May 19

El Salvador’s National Civil Police have arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has become one of the nation’s most prominent critics of President Nayib Bukele’s regime.

El Salvador Arrests and Disappears Prominent Human Rights Attorney

El Salvador authorities have arrested Ruth López, a prominent anti-corruption and human rights attorney with Cristosal.

www.rollingstone.com

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