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8 May 2009 adminAfter the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa
You can download the full story of the Life & Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa with full references here. (PDF 175kb) « Continued from The Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa Just days after the murder, Shell announced that it would press ahead with a $3.8 billion liquid natural gas project in Nigeria. “There have been suggestions that…
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Action Saro-Wiwa
In 2015, it was 20 years since the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni colleagues were hanged by the military government for campaigning against Shell In 2018 it will be 60 years since Shell started drilling in the Niger Delta, the breadbasket of Africa, to get at its oil resources. That’s…
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Economy
“The planet today is the battlefield of a 4th world war (the 3rd was the so-called ‘Cold War’). The aim of the belligerents is the conquest of the entire world through the market. The arsenals are financial; there are nevertheless millions of people being maimed or killed every moment… Globalisation is merely the totalitarian extension…
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Fighting to keep fossil gas in the ground
This project is part of Platform’s long-term commitment to support environmental justice struggles at the front lines of oil and gas drilling internationally. BP does not carry out fracking in the UK where it is headquartered, because “it would attract the wrong kind of attention”. But BP, Shell and a host of other companies are…
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2 Apr 2019 annaEconomy
Sustainable Cities Climate change is often described about as a global complex problem – understandable only through parts per million and technical papers. But at Platform we know that climate change is an everyday issue. It’s about the places we live, the structures and systems that shape those places and how we want the future…