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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…
26 Oct 2011 admin -
‘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 -
Tax breaks ‘crucial’ for Arctic oil
On Friday 14th October, Texas governor and US presidential candidate Rick Perry unveiled his ‘jobs and energy’ policy which “resembles a wish list for the oil and gas industry” according to the New York Times. The plan, available online, involves scaling down the “job-killing” Environmental Protection Agency and opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge…
24 Oct 2011 anna -
TAKE ACTION: Demand corporate accountability
The Global Greengrants Fund has set up an online petition calling on Shell to immediately clean up its appalling pollution in the Niger Delta and end its daily human rights abuses. The action has collected over 9,900 signatures since Wednesday. Let’s see if we can hit 10,000 by the end of today! Please sign the…
22 Oct 2011 admin -
Shell hit with $1bn US lawsuit over Nigeria pollution
Within a day of the US Supreme Court decision to hear the case of Kiobel v Shell, which accuses Shell of complicity in crimes against humanity and human rights abuses in Nigeria during the 1990s, the oil giant was hit by another class action lawsuit for 50 years of pollution in the Niger Delta. AFP…
21 Oct 2011 admin -
Canada’s Dirty and Dangerous Tar Sands
When the pro-tar sands lobby group pounced on Platform’s new research on Nigeria to justify Canada’s “blood oil”, we were disgusted. Here is my blog response in The Huffington Post Canada. (Note they changed the title from ‘tar sands’ to the more innocuous ‘oil sands’). Canada’s Dirty and Dangerous Oil Sands EthicalOil.org has a reputation…
21 Oct 2011 admin -
Canada’s Dirty and Dangerous Oil Sands
This article by Ben Amunwa first appeared in The Huffington Post on 19 October 2011. EthicalOil.org has a reputation for using just about anything to promote Canada's tar sands. The local mayor, Aboriginals and environmentalists have all been thrust into EthicalOil.org's narrative, some against their will. This Monday it was my turn to get 'tarred' as…
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Tax dodging corporations keep Nigerians in poverty
New research from ActionAid has exposed the multinationals dodging taxes in Nigeria. Shell is considered to be among one of the biggest offenders. As Tunde Aremu of ActionAid reports: Shell, with its massive interests in the Niger Delta, has 18 subsidiary companies located in Nigeria, but 455 in tax havens around the world. BP has…
17 Oct 2011 admin
