The recent increase in conflicts between communities and companies indicates that a multidisciplinary approach is needed to more broadly understand the complexity of community resistance on large projects. This study introduces the Brazilian anti-mining movement as a response to Brazil’s neo-liberal agenda in the early 2000s. Conflicts are happening nearby mining sites, along the logistics complex and close to the ports where the minerals are exported. Groups are fighting against social and environmental injustice while trying to influence the mining code draft that is running on the Parliament. Recently Brazil made room for one of the biggest mining catastrophes ever seen: a tailing dam burst in Mariana and the slurry reached many other cities destroying livelihoods and the surrounding environment. This was a turning point that definitely put mining on the top of National agenda. While Governments and corporations are reviewing their assessment tools on the matter, activists are mobilizing and organizing themselves to achieve better outcomes on their grievances and to alleviate the social injustice related to how mining projects are being carried out in the country.
