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Bill McKibben slams Shell sponsorship at Chatham House keynote on climate
More images available on request Contact: [email protected] — @platformlondon Speaking at the annual Chatham House climate change conference, keynote speaker Bill McKibben of 350.org said: I didn’t know Shell was sponsoring this conference when I agreed to do it, but I’m glad for the chance to say in public that Shell is among the most…
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Shell’s climate marketing tricks
Have you seen all these new Shell ads? Billboards on high streets and tube stations celebrate Shell as a champion of climate action and “keeping-the-lights-on”. When she’s your age What’s the way to keep the lights on into 2050? Burn the rest of the world’s fossil fuels, of course. And look, she’s even got a…
3 Nov 2014 anna -
Green scapegoating of immigrants is an intellectual deceit of the worst kind
Guest post by Alex Randall I’ve spent the past year gathering testimonies from people who have moved due to the impacts of climate change. These stories reveal there is something deeply wrong with the way some green groups talk about migration. It has become a mantra among green groups that climate change will create…
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A journey to ‘communities of the ideal’
A while back James Marriott made a journey to two communities – each of which tries to approach an ideal. This is his reflection on the experience. The first, La R.o.n.c.e in the Morbihan region of Brittany, is being established on an abandoned farm by six activists and artist-activists, two of whom, John Jordan and…
22 Oct 2014 james -
Exciting week for ending the licence to spill
Why do BP and Shell need cultural institutions (Tate, British Museum, National Portrait Gallery), consumer brands (Lego, Waitrose) and universities? The simple answer is so that the rest of us think we need them. As the Tate’s lawyer explained BP’s sponsorship, if they didn’t think they were getting something out of it, they wouldn’t do…
10 Oct 2014 anna -
Offshore: Iran, BP, Algeria & Boris Island
“No you can’t get through down there. They’ve got a full set of anti-terrorist police. Machine guns and all. They’ll jump out at you if you go beyond that fence. Mind you, it helps keep the crime down in the village”. The tall man with white hair straggling out from under his black hat and…
9 Oct 2014 james -
Tate and oil: does the art world need to come clean about sponsorship?
Susanna Rustin, The Guardian
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BP and #IndyRef – the need to constrain corporate influence in our democracy
Around about 3.00 am on the morning of Friday 19th September, whilst anxiously watching the results come in on the Scottish Independence Referendum, we heard one of the commentators on STV ‘Scotland Decides’ explain his view that after months of the politicians being unable to help the voters make their decision, ‘business leaders’ had stepped…
26 Sep 2014 james -
When Art Meets Activism. As Tate faces the Information Tribunal over BP sponsorship, is there a line between art and ethics?
Interview with Kevin Smith (Platform) and Hannah Davey (Liberate Tate)
