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Our Power: Methodology & Lessons Learned
Briefing for anyone who is interested in climate justice and wants to learn more about how we spoke to offshore oil and gas workers, what the process looked like, and what lessons we learned.
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Culture
In order for an oil company to produce oil and transport it to the global market, it needs either the support or the silence of the population in those areas of the world where this takes place. Where the necessary support – or ‘social licence to operate’ – is not forthcoming, the ability of that…
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8 May 2009 adminThe Life of Ken Saro-Wiwa
You can watch a short clip from ‘In Remembrance’ a documentary made by Glenn Ellis, which charts the history of Saro-Wiwa’s life, activism and the executions. You will also find a detailed account below. » The Ogoni Struggle » The Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa » After the executions Ken Saro-Wiwa was born in October 1941,…
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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.
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External Energy Policy
Our work on foreign energy policy explores some of the intellectual, philosophical and historical underpinnings of contemporary ‘energy security’ discourse – a deliberate use of language designed to foster anxiety about energy supplies and engender resource wars. We aim to evaluate the real-world impacts of this seemingly innocuous view of energy policy and unpack some…
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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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15 May 2023 adminFlick Monk
Flick is based in Glasgow and grew up up in rural Galloway. She previously worked at Friends of the Earth Scotland on fracking and divestment. She has an MSc in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England where she researched community energy.
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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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14 Aug 2023 AnnieJames Marriott
James works on our project Crude Britannia, using literature, film, theatre & live art to explore how oil has shaped the UK’s economy, politics and culture over the past century. He’s co-author of several books – The Next Gulf (2005), The Oil Road (2012) and Crude Britannia (2021).
