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8 May 2009 adminThe 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 Ogoni Struggle Nine days after Okuntimo’s memo, on 21st May, four conservative Ogoni leaders were killed in Gokana, giving the military an excuse to “justify” a military presence, to undertake “wasting…
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31 Oct 2024 AnnieCarys Boughton
Carys is based in London and campaigns to cut the flow of political and financial power to the fossil fuel industry. Alongside her work at Platform, she’s an illustrator creating climate and social justice-themed comics.
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Education
“Education involves ethics and aesthetics hand in hand. It is beautiful because it is ethical” Paulo Freire Platform’s education work and exhibitions are creative opportunities for people to meet together, share, learn, and make change happen. It cuts across all of Platform’s work, demonstrating our values, processes, and…
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8 May 2009 adminThe Ogoni Struggle
« Continued from The Life of Ken Saro-Wiwa “The Ogoni have been gradually ground to dust by the combined effort of the multi-national oil company, Shell Petroleum Development Company, the murderous ethnic majority in Nigeria and the country’s military dictatorships.” – Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1992 Shell started producing oil in the Delta in 1958. In 1970…
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11 Sep 2024 AnnieZainabb Hull
Zainabb is a queer, disabled, brown Muslim femme from London who works on Fossil Free campaigning at Platform. Alongside their work at Platform, Zainabb is a writer, editor, and grassroots organiser focused on decolonisation, disability justice, and celebrating Black and brown trans joy.
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Fossil Fuel Finance – Divest/Invest
The climate transition changes everything. The next decade will require a wholesale recalibration of how our society and economy function. This creates opportunities to place democracy and social justice at the heart of our future political and economic structures. Platform data research and analysis shows that UK local government pensions are worth nearly £300 bn…
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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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9 Sep 2024 AnnieGabrielle Jeliazkov
Gaby previously worked on Platform’s just transition project, where she co-authored the Our Power report. She is originally from Canada but has lived in the UK since 2018, including in London and Glasgow. She has a background in trade union organising, community organising and campaigning.
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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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14 Aug 2023 AnnieRadhika Jani
Radhika works with communities in Tower Hamlets to dream up alternative food systems. She has a background in community arts & writing, and leads on the project’s creative strand to tell local food stories.
