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Shell’s ‘polluted promises’ in Nigeria means it’s time for #ActionSaroWiwa
This week sees the publication of our latest briefing Polluted Promises, How Shell failed to clean up in Ogoniland, based on research done on the ground in the Niger Delta in October 2013 by our campaigner Sarah Shoraka, with allies from the Delta. The new report and research was covered in the Daily Mail yesterday.…
28 May 2014 admin -
Shell AGM – Securing the comforts of the present generation at the expense of the next
Last week I headed home from the Netherlands, crossing the North Sea from the delta of the Rhine to the delta of the Thames, after having attended the Shell AGM in Den Haag with friends and allies from Greenpeace, ShareAction, Observatorio Petrolero Sur, Milieudefensie and Global Witness. This year’s Shell AGM was a quieter affair…
27 May 2014 james -
‘Cleaned’ Nigerian sites still blighted by oil
Rob Davies, Daily Mail
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20 year’s since Ken Saro Wiwa’s arrest – 20 years of Shell’s inaction
Twenty years ago today, Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested for the final time. Eighteen months later he and eight others were dead; hanged by the Nigerian military government on trumped up charges, for campaigning against Shell’s destruction of their home. Today is also Shell’s London AGM – a chance to foreground the voices of those still…
22 May 2014 admin -
Egyptian climate justice campaigner & Platform ally jailed for 2 years
A close ally of Platform’s was jailed for two years for her activism on Tuesday. Mahienour El-Massry is an inspiring Egyptian human rights lawyer, who led the way in challenging police brutality in Alexandria. Mahienour helped communities demand environmental justice, factory workers to fight for their rights and has been on the frontline of the…
22 May 2014 admin -
Shell CEO given Nigeria ‘to do list’ at memorial outside shareholder meeting on 20th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s arrest
Activists from oil-industry watch dog Platform this morning delivered an out-sized ‘to do list’ to Shell’s new CEO Ben van Beurden at its shareholder meeting in London, while young people read out Ken Saro-Wiwa’s final poems. The four-foot-high ‘to do list’ sets out what Shell needs to do to address its legacy of five decades…
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Art in the face of climate change – Deller, detachment and William Morris
Recently I gave a short talk followed by a lengthy discussion in a ‘Green Drinks’ forum organised by Artsadmin at Toynbee Studios in Whitechapel, London. The audience was comprised mainly of people in the arts engaged with ecology, and people in the ecological movement engaged with the arts. The text of the talk ran as…
12 May 2014 james -
Not cool
(on Tate’s reaction to Platform’s Freedom of Information request to see the minutes of the ethics committee for the meeting where the decision on renewing BP’s sponsorship was taken) Art Monthly news piece
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Extent of oil money in the arts revealed by new research and infographic
Oil money only ‘tiny sliver’ in comparison to overall incomes New research from oil industry watchdog Platform today has revealed how small the amount of oil money going into UK arts institutions compared to their overall budgets. At the end of 2011, BP announced a £10 million sponsorship deal for four of London’s flagship cultural…