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الكفاح من أجل العدالة المناخية في شمال أفريقيا

Blog post - Apr 28, 2015

(المقادمة للكتاب “الثورة القادمة في شمال افريقيا- العدالة المناخية”) حمزة حموشان وميكا مينيو-بالويللو سيؤدي تغير المناخ إلى تدمير شمال أفريقيا. وسيموت الكثيرون كما سيضطر الملايين من البشر إلى الهجرة. الصحراء آخذة بالتوسع والمحاصيل تفشل وصيادو الأسماك يفقدون مصادر رزقهم. سيزداد عدم انتظام الأمطار وستتضاءل إمدادات المياه وستصبح العواصف أكثر كثافة. الصيف سيصبح أكثر سخونة والشتاء...

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#MuseumWeek special: British Museum’s BP secrets revealed & more

Blog post - Mar 27, 2015

The latest just in: British Museum’s BP secrets revealed BP Or Not BP? forced British Museum to reveal: BP sponsorship was just £596,000 per year from 2000- 2011 – around 0.8% of the Museum’s income. The figures were revealed under Freedom Of Information Act, just a few weeks after we forced Tate to admit that BP’s...

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New book ‘Artwash’ reveals Big Oil’s art PR strategies

Press release - Mar 18, 2015

Artwash: Big Oil and The Arts by Mel Evans, out 20 April with Pluto Press To arrange interviews, contact Anna Galkina / [email protected] / @platformlondon For review copies or to arrange the publication of an abstract, contact Alison Alexanian / [email protected] New book analyses BP and Shell’s strategy to gain ‘social licence to operate’ by...

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Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts. Out 20.04.15. Press pack

Press release - Mar 18, 2015

Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts is out 20.04.2015. Images and video here

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North Sea oil companies demand tax breaks in budget, despite 6 years of eye-watering profit levels

Press release - Mar 16, 2015

Press release from Platform and Oil Change International Contact: Mika Minio-Paluello – Platform – 020 7403 3738 / 07733466038 /////// Greg Muttitt – Oil Change International – 07508 421 527 Figures released today show that North Sea oil and gas companies are many more times profitable than other businesses in the UK and already benefit...

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Art and power: reflections on austerity and sponsorship

Blog post - Mar 12, 2015

We often get asked: if we want the arts to be free from sponsorship by climate-wrecking oil companies, where’s the money going to come from? And aren’t we just going to push art institutions towards other corporate sponsors (arms dealers, banks) with tarnished reputations to polish? My immediate answer to this question is in the...

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Take the Money and Run? a response to an event about ethics, funding and art by Mary Paterson

Article - Mar 12, 2015

Take The Money And Run? was an event about ethics, funding and art that took place at Toynbee Studios, London on January 29, 2015. Attended by over 200 people, it was a day of presentations and discussion hosted by three organisations, Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin, Home Live Art and produced in collaboration with Platform. We commissioned Mary Paterson...