الكفاح من أجل العدالة المناخية في شمال أفريقيا
Apr 28, 2015
(المقادمة للكتاب “الثورة القادمة في شمال افريقيا- العدالة المناخية”) حمزة حموشان وميكا مينيو-بالويللو سيؤدي تغير المناخ إلى تدمير شمال أفريقيا. وسيموت الكثيرون كما سيضطر الملايين من البشر إلى الهجرة. الصحراء آخذة بالتوسع والمحاصيل تفشل وصيادو الأسماك يفقدون مصادر رزقهم. سيزداد عدم انتظام الأمطار وستتضاءل إمدادات المياه وستصبح العواصف أكثر كثافة. الصيف سيصبح أكثر سخونة والشتاء...
#MuseumWeek special: British Museum’s BP secrets revealed & more
Mar 27, 2015
The latest just in: British Museum’s BP secrets revealed BP Or Not BP? forced British Museum to reveal: BP sponsorship was just £596,000 per year from 2000- 2011 – around 0.8% of the Museum’s income. The figures were revealed under Freedom Of Information Act, just a few weeks after we forced Tate to admit that BP’s...
Find out about Shake’s new youth-led research collective and its new work on public space, young people and ‘violence’
Mar 25, 2015
Shake! is excited to launch its youth-led research collective. It starts from questions about power that come up time and again as we make and remake Shake! Why are we young people always the objects of ‘research’ and ‘policy’? And why young people of colour in particular? We are not interested in being described, explained, being told...
‘Walking among the ruins of the future’ – thinking of a city beyond neoliberalism
Mar 25, 2015
I’m waiting for Mika at the entrance to the Canary Wharf underground. We are about to go for a walk around the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets. Unfortunately we are waiting at different station exits. The upside is that I spend twenty-five minutes absorbing the scene, observing a place I’d...
Azerbaijani activists and journalists not free to collect Freedom of Expression Award
Mar 20, 2015
Guest blog from Index on Censorship Index on Censorship gave a special award at our 15th Freedom of Expression Awards – to a group of people in Azerbaijan not able to join us to collect it. Over the past eight months, Azerbaijani authorities, under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev, have been engaged in relentless...
#Budget2015: Welfare for Fossil Fuels, Austerity for the rest
Mar 18, 2015
This blog was written jointly with Greg Muttitt of Oil Change International Today, Osborne announced massive tax breaks and subsidies for North Sea oil companies. A new £1.3 billion in subsidies will be handed to oil companies, with the burden transferred to the public. £1.3 billion could cover the costs of employing another 20,000 nurses...
Art and power: reflections on austerity and sponsorship
Mar 12, 2015
We often get asked: if we want the arts to be free from sponsorship by climate-wrecking oil companies, where’s the money going to come from? And aren’t we just going to push art institutions towards other corporate sponsors (arms dealers, banks) with tarnished reputations to polish? My immediate answer to this question is in the...
Demand UK MPs speak out against Azerbaijan Repression
Mar 4, 2015
In 100 days the European Olympics will be taking place in Baku. As stadiums are completed and flags unfurled many of the people we know in Azerbaijan are in prison. The European Games are being used to goldwash the BP-Aliyev regime. So desperate are they to host the event that, despite serious economic problems, they’re...
Guest post: why we picketed Student Pride
Mar 3, 2015
This is a guest blog by Hannah Smith. A shorter version of this piece appeared in Diva Magazine’s blog. A strange thing happened the very first time I went to a pride march; usually a chatterbox, I fell silent. Watching the procession I was overwhelmed by a connection to the queer community – my community...
Oil Be Back: could drilling begin again in Ogoniland 22 years after the people kicked Shell out?
Feb 26, 2015
Recently there has been a flurry of Nigerian media headlines stating that oil drilling in Ogoniland could soon re-start. I have tried to dig deeper to assess what is currently known and what questions remain. Has Shell sold assets in Ogoniland? So far, there have been no news stories outside of Nigeria about Shell’s plans...
Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts
Jan 30, 2015
If you missed Take the Money and Run? – a discussion-packed day on ethics and arts funding – you also missed our sneak preview of Artwash the new book written by Mel Evans. Fear not! Mel recorded this short intro so you don’t have to miss out… 20 April 2015 is the fifth anniversary of...
SuAndi of National Black Arts Alliance on justice in arts funding
Jan 28, 2015
In November I participated in a seminar* on arts policy and heard writer, performance poet, and Freelance Cultural Director of National Black Arts Alliance, SuAndi give an arresting paper to an almost totally white audience of arts practitioners, funders, and policymakers. She generously agreed to it being published here. “I have told this before Many times Too...
