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READ: The People Will Possess The Wind
The People will Possess the Wind was commissioned by Estuary Festival for Estuary 2025. Read the booklet now.
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ACTIVE 2025 — 2026Archive as Catalyst
A public programme of events and creative work exploring movement histories.
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NEW TOOLKIT
A deep dive into Eni and Dana Petroleum for grassroots campaigners.
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‘Oil is the poison’
Action is the antidote’ – sixteen days in the movement to end fossil fuels. At 8.25 on Friday 15th April, as the rush hour traffic poured off the M4 at Chiswick, four activists stepped out in front of an Eddie Stobart oil tanker. Two held up a banner declaring ‘Just Stop Oil’ whilst two others…
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4 Apr 2022 jamesTectonic shifts – the energy crisis and the leap beyond – The Economic War, part 4
Shell declares it may go back into Cambo and the oilfield’s exploration license is extended by two years. The British government pushes for renewed drilling in the UK North Sea. There is public outcry at the Chancellor’s failure to defend households from the attack on living standards driven by price inflation. The Russian government announces…
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10 Mar 2022 jamesHail to the dockworkers! A Tale of Three Tankers – The Economic War, part 2
You can track them still on MarineTraffic.com … the MV Seacod, the MV Boris Vilkitsky and the MV Pearl. Three ghost ships of the energy system, the spirits of the Economic War. All three of these vessels broke out of the fog that normally swathes the constant trade in oil and gas. All three neared…
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Just Transition in Glasgow – now is the time for ‘For’ and ‘Against’
“We need a massive programme of retrofitting homes”. Francis Stuart of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) is outlining his understanding of the social project that needs to take place, the transformation of pretty much the entirety of the housing stock of Scotland – and indeed the UK. Stuart sits behind a long table…
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The Open Wound – keeping eyes on the constant injustice of oil production in Nigeria
26th Anniversary of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni comrades Authored by James Marriott of Platform drawing from the collective experience of so many others in Platform and the multiple organisations we’ve collaborated with. On the morning of 10th November 1995 in a Port Harcourt goal, Nigeria were murdered: Ken…
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5 Nov 2021 jamesHow to Capture the Future and Store Capital – the plans for CCS in Liverpool Bay
You can see the future from Formby Beach. You don’t even need to climb up on one of steep sand dunes to catch a glimpse of it. It is out there yellow and white lights blinking in the grey dusk away to the North West. It has supplanted the red dots of the turbines on…
