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6 Oct 2012 adminThirty national & international groups call for support of tar sands blockade
We’re honoured to be one of the groups to be standing in solidarity with this inspiring direct action taking place in Texas attempting to block construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The activists have been facing a variety of awful police responses, including pepper spray, choke holds and tasers. For more information on the…
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24 Sep 2012 adminBetter Banking in Action: A Credit Union Open Day – Sat 6th October 2012
This is a guest blog by Danni Paffard, one of the fabulous people at Move Your Money – the campaign for people to switch accounts from dirty banks to more ethical or community finance institutions. As scandal after scandal blows up in the papers, and the behaviour of our big banks goes from bad…
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20 Sep 2012 adminAs BP’s “Contract of the Century” comes of age, new book reveals untold story of corruption & power
Today, BP’s Baku mega-oil project – one of its largest in the world – comes of age, 18 years since the Contract of the Century was signed in September 1994. To mark the anniversary, Verso Books and Platform are releasing a new book detailing its hidden story of geo-political manipulation, imprisonment of critics and environmental…
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5 Sep 2012 admin“Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution” comes to London
A guest blog post by Mara Ranville. “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution” (OR Books 2012) is a book and web toolbox that puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of change-makers. Part manifesto, part reference guide, Beautiful Trouble is the anti-textbook—not another how-to manual, but…
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29 Aug 2012 adminStrong Laws Needed To Curb Corporate Abuse
This is a guest post by Katie Redford, Director of EarthRights International. For many in the international human rights community, the new data about Shell’s security spending in Nigeria – including outlays of over $380,000,000 for just the period from 2007 to 2009 – released last week by Platform, is not surprising. The multinational oil giant has had…
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1 Aug 2012 adminCollected Films by the Reclaim Shakespeare Company: ‘To BP or not BP’
The Reclaim Shakespeare Company has delivered a spectacular set of performances at BP sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company events over the Cultural Olympiad season. Here's the collection of videos they've put together to tell the whole story. Performance 1: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, before The Tempest, April 23rd (Shakespeare’s birthday!) Performance 2: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre…
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11 Jul 2012 adminQue Sera Sera: the UK Government and Arctic oil
Last week ministers appeared in front of the Environmental Audit Committee to defend their position on Arctic oil extraction. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Polar Regions Unit states that while it is concerned with “the effects of climate change on the Arctic” they also recognise “the potential of the Arctic to strengthen energy security” –…
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25 Jun 2012 adminRBS & ECGD offer billions in public money to expand Caspian fossil fuel infrastructure
While the Tory government forces through unpopular cutbacks to the NHS, education and pensions, British public institutions plan to invest hundreds of millions – if not billions – of pounds into new fossil fuel infrastructure on the Caspian. Both the British Export Credit Agency (the ECGD – recently rebranded "UK Export Finance") and the Royal…
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21 Jun 2012 adminThe Egyptian Revolution & Environmental Justice – Platform on Resonance FM Thurs 8pm
As both candidates claim to have won Egypt's Presidential elections, the military launches a "quiet coup", imposes martial law and awards itself legislative powers. Meanwhile, popular and grassroots struggles for social and environmental justice continue in Egypt. Tonight on Resonance FM, tune in to hear Platform's monthly radio show featuring Mel Evans & Mika Minio-Paluello…
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18 Jun 2012 adminOpportunity – 3 day workshop with Platform and Live Art Development Agency
Art-Oil-Numbers-Bodies-Love: Live Art Workshop on the Problems of the Oil Economy and Oil Sponsorship of the Arts with Nicole Garneau August 9-12, 2012 Application deadline: July 9 Art-Oil-Numbers-Bodies-Love is a 3-day intensive workshop in which participants will be encouraged to try different strategies for producing small solo and collaborative live art gestures or mini-performances on the subject of…
