Tom Gatehouse

Writer, researcher, translator 🇪🇸+🇧🇷 to 🇬🇧. Latin America. Ailurophile. Author: The Heart of Our Earth: community resistance to mining in Latin America

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

Thanks to the @BRLSI for letting me come to speak next Tuesday on some of the themes of my book, The Heart of Our Earth: Community resistance to mining in Latin America.

If you're in Bath, come down! But if not, you can join online too.

https://t.co/PIBHd6fRhK

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

Venid a este evento el jueves con la Sociedad Anglo-Boliviana (@AngloBolivian) sobre el impacto de minería en América Latina. ¡En español!

https://t.co/gqTRVpxOQf

[Latin America Bureau (LAB) @LatAmB]

To mark the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile, @GatehouseTom interviewed his father Mike about his experiences of 1973: hiding out & sleeping in a bed 'with explosive-filled candles underneath me', being held in the National Stadium, and supporting campaigns back in 🇬🇧

[Billy Kenber @billykenber]

Tobacco giants linked to attacks on World Health Organisation

https://t.co/2BNlthjKI8

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

@MarinaPurkiss Classic Tory divide and rule in action

[Escarpe Occidental @EscarpeOcci]

A orillas de la #SabanadeBogotá donde nacen las aguas de la fuente hídrica del Gualivá está el Escarpe Occidental, resguardo de agua y biodiversidad. Se encuentran aquí unos de los bosques altoandinos mejores conservados y conectados. Están amenazados por una mina a cielo abierto

[Latin America Bureau (LAB) @LatAmB]

With demand for metals & minerals projected to spiral due to the global energy transition, harms to communities may further multiply. Can grassroots resistance help us to rethink our consumption of resources, put the brakes on further expansion? 🗓️ 28 SEPT
https://t.co/0xoqV13zt7

[Alejandra Costamagna @alecostama]

Allende en La Moneda.

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

Why aren't any of the main UK papers reporting this?

https://t.co/5hNEeB3uLf

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

@RishiSunak If higher education in this country is a rip-off maybe it has something to do with your mob tripling tuition fees back in 2010, making the UK the most expensive place in Europe to go to uni? Just a thought.

[LDNMiningNetwork.bsky.social @londonmining]

Coming up! Join us on 19 July to talk about The Heart of Our Earth: Community resistance to mining in Latin America with author Tom Gatehouse

https://t.co/vtsbgMXC2w

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

A big thanks to Ian Angus at Climate and Capitalism (@ecosocialism1) for featuring The Heart of Our Earth on the Ecosocialist Bookshelf this month.

"An inspiring account of popular movements against capitalist ecocide."

https://t.co/nK8kJgS7ak

[Latin America Bureau (LAB) @LatAmB]

The Heart of Our Earth by @GatehouseTom is now available at @mrbsemporium in Bath, UK! "a timely and inspiring assemblage of accounts of resistance, legal victories, and struggles for environmental justice and democracy across the region" https://t.co/2heBI8lRdI @PA_PublishingUK

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

En conversación con @ElenaRusca de @ELCLARINDECHILE, hablo de la nacionalización del litio en Chile y que significa para las comunidades aledañas a la zonas de extracción.

Escúchalo aqui:

https://t.co/I97jUbogH9

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

Check out my long read for #TobaccoTactics with @Britta_KM on tobacco industry appropriation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

https://t.co/QnKRVgZi0z

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

https://t.co/UZgTaQ8BsF

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

Thanks to the good people at Morocco Bound (@BookshopBound) for inviting me to talk about The Heart of Our Earth last weekend.

It's a lovely space, well worth ducking in for a beer and a browse when you're in London.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hancock: I want £1,500 an hour

Kwarteng: I want £1,250 an hour

@RobLaurensonD4P Junior doctors want £19 an hour

[Tom Gatehouse @GatehouseTom]

A big thanks to Sonja and the team at @latamdialogue for inviting me to speak about mining in Latin America on their podcast series.

Check out the episode here: https://t.co/Q6DgfSjlc5