Global support in wake of Wild Coast anti-mining assassination

Anti-mining activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe addresses a meeting. Image: Law Resource Centre of South Africa

Following the brutal murder of the ACC Chairman Bazooka Rhadebe, there has been an unbelievable global groundswell of support given in aid of the ACC and SWC’s mission to stop the extractive, cultural and environmentally destructive Australian mining company MRC from destroying the ancestral home of the Amadiba on the Wild Coast of South Africa.

To date, a total of 193 local and international Civil Society organisations and over 8000 individuals have added their names to our cause.

Strenth in unity provides encouragement

In unity lies strength, and we are incredibly heartened that with the support and encouragement of all our new friends from around the world, the road upon which we walk will be that much lighter.

The ACC and SWC would like to personally thank each and every one of the following organisations for raising their voices in support of our cause.

We would also like to extend an invitation to all others who would like to join us in our struggle to do here.

Furthermore, the response to our fundraising drive has also been incredible, however in order to realise our objective of stopping the mining, we would like to appeal to all for your continued financial support to our cause. Financial support, however small, can be done here.

The current list of highly appreciated supporters include:

106 South African CSOs:

• 350 Africa
• ActionAid
• African Centre for Biodiversity
• AIDS Foundation of South Africa
• Alternative Information & Development Centre, (AIDC)
• Awesome South Africa
• Awethu – a People’s Platform for Social Justice
• Bench Marks Foundation
• Bertha GXOWA Foundation
• Biowatch SA
• BlackSash Offices
• Bua Mining Communities
• CALUSA
• Cape Town TV
• Casac South Africa
• Centre for Civil Society (CCS)
• Centre for Environmental Rights(CER)
• Centre for Human Rights
• Co-operative and Policy Alternative Center (COPAC)
• Coalition for Environmental Justice (CEJ)
• Coast Rights Forum
• Coastal Links
• Community Media Trust
• Democracy Works Foundation
• Democratic Left Front
• Diakonia Council of Churches
• East African Climate Consortium Student forum
• Economic Justice Network of FOCCISA/AMI
• Ekogaia Foundation
• Equal Education
• Equal Education UCT Society
• SA Food Sovereignty Campaign
• Football Against Apartheid
• Fossil Free South Africa
• Freedom Under Law (FUL)
• Gendercc Southern Africa – Women For Climate Justice Network
• Global Justice Forum
• Groundwork
• Green Times
• Health of Mother Earth Foundation
• Institute for Economic Research on Innovation
• Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
• International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)
• International Socialist Movement (SA)
• Inyanda National Land Movement
• Johannesburg Anglican Environmental Initiative (JAEI)
• KeepLeft (Socialism from Below)
• Khanyisa Education and Development Trust
• Khulumani Support Group
• Lawyers For Human Rights
• UCT Left Students Forum
• Local Government Action
• Marikana Support Campaign
• Masifundise
• Masifundise Development Trust
• Mawubuye lands rigths movement
• Media Monitoring Africa
• Media Policy Democarcy Project (MPDP)
• Mejcon-SA
• Mineral Policy Institute
• Ndifuna Ukwazi
• Network of Eastern Cape Rural Organisarions (26 organisations)
• Noordhoek Environmental Action Group (NEAG)
• october6 wits movements
• ODACO
• Oparation Khanyisa Movement (OKM)
• Open Secrets ZA
• Oxfam South Africa
• Pan Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe
• Parliamentary Monitoring Group – PMG
• People’s Assembly SA
• Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)
• Quaker Peace Centre
• Right2Know Campaign
• South African Rural Women’s Assembly
• Social Justice Coalition
• Socialist Group
• Socialist Initiative
• Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)
• Sonke Gender Justice
• South African Food Sovereignty Campaign
• South African History Archive (SAHA)
• South Durban Community Environmental Alliance
• Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI)
• STEPS
• SLSJ: Students for Law and Social Justice – UWC
• Sustaining the Wild Coast
• SWC
• Thanda After-School
• The Gaia Foundation
• The John Lynch Afrikan Education Programme
• People’s Health Movement South Africa
• Thembelihle Crisis Committee (TCC)
• Timbila Poetry Project
• Treatment Action Campaign
• Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE)
• UCT PASMA
• South African Unemployed Peoples’ Movement
• Unemployed people’s organisation KZN
• United Front
• United Front Western Cape
• War on Want
• Wilderness Action Group
• Wilderness Foundation
• Women’s Legal Centre
• WoMin African Gender and Extractives Alliance
• The Zandvlei Trust

87 International Organisations

• 350 vt
• Abgefrackt
• Aclimatando
• Southern African Resource Watch
• Afrika Komitee Switzerland
• Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice
• Albertina Bay Technologies
• Alliance of Pastoralists ffrom Aurunci and Ciociaria (APAC) – Italy
• Amigos da Terra Brasil
• Asociación autonómica y ambiental Petón do Lobo
• Asociación gallega Cova Crea
• Athens County (OH, U.S.) Fracking Action Network
• BATAK FEDERATION, PALAWAN (THE PHILIPPINES)
• BI lebenswertes Korbach e.V.
• CATAPA
• CEE-HOPE Nigeria
• Censat Agua Viva – Amigos de la Tierra Colombia
• CESTA – FOE El Salvador
• Citizens’ Collective Against Hydraulic Fracking for Methane Gas Department Hérault, France
• CIVICUS
• Climáximo
• COALITION AGAINST LAND GRABBING (CALG) PHILIPPINES
• Collectif Causse Méjean – Gaz de schiste NON !
• Collectif Stop GHRM 38 French
• Colombia Solidarity Campaign, UK
• Common Frontiers – Canada
• Consumers’ Association of Penang
• Corporate Europe Observatory
• Daraja Press
• Diversencia Foundation
• Earthworks
• Ecological Society of the Philippines
• Ecologistas en Acción
• ECOLOGISTAS en Acción
• EcoNexus
• EMCSO
• Engineers without borders Extractive systems and environments
• Everett Program for Technology for Social Change–University of California Santa Cruz
• Federación ecologista de Costa Rica
• Food & Water Watch
• Foundation HELP, Tanzania
• Friends of the Earth Scotland
• Fundacion Arcoiris
• Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación
• Germany “wir gegen fracking” Lüneburg
• Global Afrikan People’s Parliament
• Global Diversity Foundation
• Global Justice Ecology Project
• Global Witness
• Green Convergence
• Green Times
• Greenpeace Africa
• Iniciativa Comunales
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Institute of Global Responsibility
• International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
• International Council for Adult Education
• JATAM (Mining Advocacy Network) – Indonesia
• Kingston University London
• London Mining Network
• Mangrove Action Project (MAP)
• MELCA-Ethiopia
• MiningWatch Canada
• Move Your Money
• NATRIPAL (UNITED TRIBES OF PALAWAN) PHILIPPINES
• New York Climate Action Group
• News & Letters
• Norwegian People’s Aid
• Occupy Bergen County (New Jersey, U.S.A.)
• Oilwatch Latinoamérica
• Oxford Women for Justice and Peace
• PHM-Ghana
• Publish What You Pay Australia
• Publish What You Pay UK
• Red Latinoamericana sobre Industrias Extractivas
• Salva la Selva /Rettet den Regenwald
• SIHDEVAS
• SOLIFONDS
• The Democracy Center
• The Oakland Institute
• The Saville Foundation
• Time For Africa
• Transnational Institute, TNI
• Vélorution
• Velorution idf9
• via campésina
• YLNM Latin America

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