Sumayyah works on our food and land justice project in her community in Tower Hamlets. She has a background in research, community organising and creative storytelling and facilitation. Alongside her work at Platform, she is also part of Land in Our Names, a land and racial justice collective, and the Nejma Collective, a prison abolitionist group.
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…
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…
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.
“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…
« 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…
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.
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…
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…
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.







