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Even oil dictators need a social license to operate – Aliyev’s cultural spending spree
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May 16, 2013
Whether it’s BP’s sponsorship of the Tate galleries, Shell’s funding for the Southbank Centre or Tullow Oil’s controversial deals with Sunderland football club oil company sponsorship of the arts is a familiar phenomenon. But what about oil dictators? Do they also need a social license to operate? What kinds of institutions would they throw money...
Rewriting the future: Achebe, literature, and activism
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Mar 25, 2013
Nigerian write Chinua Achebe died last Thursday at the age of 83. He is a key figure in world literature and a writer who along with others utterly changed the way cultures pre- and post-imperialism – and pre-missionary – imagined representing themselves. In so doing, he bolstered the challenge to western and white supremacist...
Photo story of Fares road blockades and resistance to Dana Gas
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Mar 11, 2013
Residents of the village of Fares near Aswan have suffered from collapsing homes, a flooded school and ruined orchards, after mysterious waters started rising out of the ground. The puddles and ponds started to appear after oil company Dana Gas began conducting seismic testing in the mango groves next to Fares. For several years, the...
Report: Shell gushed cash on Nigeria security
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Mar 5, 2013
Al Jazeera – August 20, 2012
Nigeria took 40 pct of Shell security spend in late 2000s-NGO
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Mar 5, 2013
Reuters – August 20, 2012
Shell paid Nigeria millions to guard oil facilities
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Mar 5, 2013
AFP – August 20, 2012
Shell spending millions of dollars on security in Nigeria, leaked data shows
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Mar 5, 2013
The Guardian – August 19, 2012
Shell ‘paying tens of millions to Nigerian security forces’
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Mar 5, 2013
The Telegraph – August 19, 2012
‘Spatial Politics’ event, Royal Geographical Society, 8 March 2013
Feb 26, 2013
Radical geographer Doreen Massey – whom we hugely admire – gives a keynote speech at this event marking a new publication on her influence on theory, culture and politics. In the ‘Political Cultures’ workshop. Jane Trowell (Platform) is speaking alongside Dr Ian Shaw (Univ of Glasgow). This is at the RGS in central London, 11 –...
Remember Oluwale – launch tonight, Leeds
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Jan 23, 2013
Platform hails allies in Leeds who are tonight launching a key campaign and creative project ‘Remember Oluwale’. This marks the appalling treatment and early death in suspicious circumstances of Nigerian-born, Leeds-based man David Oluwale. It looks at the contemporary legacies, and how we can change the future. Platform makes common cause with David’s life and...
Want to understand the routes of corporate power? Read ‘The corporation that changed the world’
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Dec 21, 2012
Whether it’s Google, Amazon, Starbucks using legal loopholes to avoid corporation tax; Apple’s subcontractors’ deathly abuse of workers in China; the ongoing call for justice from Bhopal over Union Carbide; Shell, BP’s activities in numerous vulnerable oil-affected communities; the bailout of RBS and Lloyds/TSB as ‘too big to fail’; or G4S taking over running sections of...
The Oil Road at the Mosaic Rooms, London, Thur 13th December
Dec 11, 2012
James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello will be discussing The Oil Road at the Mosaic Rooms in Kensington. 13th December, 7pm, free The Mosaic Rooms A. M. Qattan Foundation Tower House 226 Cromwell Road London SW5 0SW In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres...
