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Movement history
COP 6 climate justice mobilisation & the birth of Rising Tide It’s been a season of archiving action at Platform! We’re been sweatily rummaging about our storage unit, ferreting through 30 years-worth of materials as the lovely people from the Bishopsgate Institute library are going to be sifting through it all and making it more…
18 Jul 2013 admin -
July: BP resistance in Egypt, oil & universities, new Shake! course
July: BP resistance in Egypt, oil & universities, new Shake course 17 July 2013 Dear All, While the UK endures a July heatwave (aka ‘Summer’) I’ve been sweating in the Platform storage space to make 30 years-worth of our materials more available to the public through a partnership with the Bishopsgate Institute library. We’ll let you know…
17 Jul 2013 admin -
And …Where Do You and I Fit In?- Reflections on Coordinating Shake!
Some 9 months since joining Platform, I wanted to offer some reflections on working on Shake!, which is the project I co-ordinate and what I largely work on. This piece is extracted from my concluding remarks at our last Shake! Showcase , slightly paraphrased for the blog reader. Shake! is a project that brings together…
16 Jul 2013 admin -
Reclaim the power: connecting the dots
This August, we will be at Reclaim the Power camp at West Burton power station in Nottinghamshire, and we hope you will join us! Here are three reasons why: 1) More frontier gas means more repression and environmental injustice This January, David Cameron made the first official visit to Algeria post-independence. While arms sales are…
12 Jul 2013 anna -
Putting Oil before People – Cameron in Kazakhstan
So David Cameron’s been cozying up to Kazakhstan’s autocratic president Nursultan Nazarbayev, talking up ‘a new relationship’ between Britain and Kazakhstan and claiming that trade between the two countries could total £85bn. Cameron did briefly mention a letter he received from Human Right’s Watch which detailed President Nazarbayev’s appalling record on democracy and human rights…
3 Jul 2013 admin -
Calling students and HE staff – how fossil fueled is your university?
Last week we took part in a hugely inspiring meeting of more than 500 international climate activists at Global Power Shift in Istanbul, with people networking and learning the skills that they need to shift power away from fossil fuel companies and to communities working for justice-based solutions to the climate crisis. The meeting was…
2 Jul 2013 anna -
Official: Shake! Showcase at least 18% better than Glastonbury
BLOG from Platform’s youth project Shake!, first posted 28.6.13. Gender issues get a lot of discussion here at Shake! so it was with interest that we saw this article today on the representation of women on the line-up at festivals. We thought it only fair that we checked ourselves and with a hasty count-up and…
1 Jul 2013 jane -
Signing of TAP agreement delayed as Aliyev tries to silence EU critics
This morning’s planned announcement that the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline has been chosen as the final part of the mega gas pipeline that would run from the Caspian Sea to Italy1 has been overshadowed by controversy over when the agreement will be signed. The official announcement and a statement by the EU Commission are both expected today…
28 Jun 2013 admin
