LMN Education Day

London Mining Network

Calling all educators, youth workers,  and young people. 
London Mining Network is inviting you to attend our education day.

Waterloo Action Centre

London Mining Network Education DayTeachers, educators, youth workers, students and young people. London Mining Network is inviting you to attend our education day where you will hear about our work, try out our teaching resources and find out how you can support us. London Mining Network works in solidarity with communities around the world whose land, livelihoods and rights are threatened with destruction by the activities of large mining corporations listed on the London Stock Exchange. The education day will be at Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Rd, London SE1 7AA (2mins walk from Waterloo Station). Saturday, May 14th at 10.30am for an 11 am start – Finishes at 3.30 pm. In the morning, there will be an opportunity to try out and discuss some of our top teaching resources in a series of short workshops including our popular PhoneCycle game and our brand new COP materials. There will be sample materials to take away to reproduce at school for your classes. After lunch (plenty of places for takeaway food nearby or bring your own) we will discuss the problematic relationship between the extractive industries (big mining and big oil) and education, the arts, science and culture. We have invited some of the activists and campaigners demanding an end to fossil fuel funding of London museums to speak about their work and we will show a short film about the communities resisting Adani coal mines in the Hasdeo Forest in Central India. Adani’s sponsorship of a new green energy gallery at the London Science Museum has been widely criticised and has led to the resignation of two well known science museum trustees, scientists and educators Jo Foster and Hannah Fry. As many teachers and schools visit the Science Museum, a coalition of organisations including Culture Unstained, XR scientists, UK Student Climate Network and London Mining Network will be inviting teachers to sign an open letter, urging the Science Museum to drop Adani’s sponsorship. We will also have an open session for wider discussions about mining including how, as teachers, you can get involved in our education work at London Mining Network. This event is primarily aimed at educators but is also suitable for young people aged 14 upwards (younger if accompanied) and anyone involved in activist and /or community education settings. If you would like to run a workshop on mining in your school, college or for your friends and community and need some materials and support, then this event is a good place to start. We will be providing tea and coffee and there will be resources to take away. The event is free but we would really appreciate it if you could make a donation towards our costs.Numbers are limited owing to space so if you book and are then unable to attend please let us know. Please contact Kerima at education@londonminingnetwork.org if you need any further information

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