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A quick plug for our new (and beautiful) printed reports
Counting the Cost, Platform’s new report on Shell Nigeria, is now available in print! Please buy your copy here. The report looks and feels incredible, thanks to our amazing designers at Ultimate Holding Company. Buying a copy of the report enables Platform to do more campaigning for human rights and corporate accountability in Nigeria. Your support…
1 Nov 2011 admin -
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More of Blair’s dodgy mates
Sarah Legge from Platform writes: This article in the Financial Times on last Saturday caught my eye – Blair works on makeover for Kazakhstan. “Tony Blair has added Kazakhstan to his roster of oil-rich clients, advising the authoritarian Central Asian regime on economic reforms and how to present a better face to the west. The…
27 Oct 2011 admin -
Violence and Gentleness – Reverend Billy on the Occupy Movement
Our friend, performance preacher, Reverend Billy of the Church of the Earthalujah guest blogs some of his thoughts on the ‘Occupy’ movement and recent police brutality at Occupy Oakland. Waking up anxious to be clear, to have an incite and then somehow state what I believe to be true, clearly. It is raining outside, 4:30…
27 Oct 2011 admin -
Egyptian Oil Ministry protestors break through police barricade
Yesterday hundreds of protesting petroleum ministry workers broke through police barricades, pushing towards the Egyptian Cabinet’s offices in downtown Cairo. Large workers’ protests take place every day, demanding contracts and a minimum wage of 1200 Egyptian pounds a month. Al Ahram English reported that on Tuesday
26 Oct 2011 admin -
Chatting art and politics with Margaret Harrison
A total honour, Margaret Harrison visited us at Platform today, and gave us a copy of her brilliant Words and Texts 1969*2010. Harrison founded the London Feminist Liberation Art Group, her work has been exhibited all around the world, and remains as fresh and as challenging as when she first burst upon the scene. The first…
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‘Britain on Trial’ event in The Guardian
Check out this coverage of Shake! and Leeds Young Authors’ event on institutional racism in The Northerner blog. You don’t want to miss this unique collaboration between young people, Leeds University’s MA Activism and Social Change, Leeds Bicentenary Transformation Project, Leeds Black Film Club, chaired by Esther Stanford-Xosei of Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition of Europe. The…
25 Oct 2011 jane -
اوروبا و الخصخصة في مصر
نائب رئيس الوزراء الانجليزية نيك كليج كان في القاهرة الخميس المماضي و قال انه يدعم الثورة المصرية. لكن اي ثورة و الذين الثورة؟ وعد كليج ٥ مليين دولار الان في مخال “المساعدة التقنية” و ٣٨ مليار في المستقبل, خلال يد البنك الدولي و “البنك الاوروبي للاعمار و التنمية” (ُي ب ر د). تقرض و تستثمر…
25 Oct 2011 admin
