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Dirty Money – Europe’s Thirst for Oil in Nigeria 25th June 18.30 at the Free Word Centre.
Jun 22, 2015
Book tickets here What are the environmental and social impacts of Western oil corporations in the Niger Delta? Dirty Money is a graphic novel that tells the incredible story of Dotun Oloko, a Nigerian whistleblower. He tries to expose what he suspects is the involvement of the British Government and European Institutions in the laundering...
Of Turmeric and Truth – ‘Fuel for Thought’ and the struggle in Ogoni
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Jun 12, 2019
This blog is co-authored by Andy Rowell (Oil Change International) and James Marriott (Platform) Lazarus Tamana, Europe Coordinator of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), holds up a small round plastic container, an inch deep, two inches across. It is filled with a rich yellow-ochre coloured powder. “This was grown...
Decades of neglect, years of waiting: it’s time to clean up Ogoniland’s oil pollution
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Jun 4, 2018
Two years ago, the Nigerian Government officially launched a clean-up programme of Shell’s oil pollution in Ogoniland. But today communities are still waiting for emergency measures on drinking water and health protection and the clean-up to begin. Here’s what Godwin Uyi Ojo, Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria had to say about it:...
Nigeria and Shell ‘not cleaning pollution’
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Aug 5, 2014
Vigil on 20th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni 9 execution demands Shell clean up in Niger Delta.
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Nov 10, 2015
Vigil on 20th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni 9 execution demands Shell clean up in Niger Delta. The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, and Platform held a vigil outside the Shell headquarters in London November 10th, 2015 on the 20th year anniversary of the execution Ken Saro-Wiwa. Artists, activists and...
Breaking: The Struggle to Free the Bus: The Twists, the Turns and the Conspiracies
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Feb 24, 2016
BREAKING Guest Blog by Ken Henshaw, Social Action, Nigeria The extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Bus memorial seizure and the struggle to release it, on the day of the 3rd Hearing to release the memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8. Show your support – follow and tweet @GreatOgoni, @Kenn_Henshaw, @S_DouglasCamp. Support the Movement...
Release the Bus memorial NOW: Artists, campaigners and others speak out!
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Nov 6, 2015
Twenty years ago, on 10th November 1995, the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed, alongside eight colleagues, for crimes they did not commit. They were campaigning against Shell’s exploitation and environmental destruction of Ogoniland in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. As a Living Memorial, The Battle Bus, a large-scale mobile interactive steel sculpture...
RELEASE: ‘Living Memorial’ to Ken Saro-Wiwa seized by Nigerian Customs
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Nov 5, 2015
RELEASE: ‘Living Memorial’ to Ken Saro-Wiwa seized by Nigerian Customs Thursday, November 5th, 2015 Suzanne Dhaliwal – [email protected] +447772694327 UK contact for images and interviews Memorial sculpture to murdered activist seized at Lagos port by Nigerian Customs Customs chief was on tribunal that condemned Ken Saro-Wiwa to execution; Shell stands accused of conspiring in the...
Democratising energy – an online peer learning course
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Sep 6, 2016
6 weeks of learning and sharing with people working on energy transitions around the world PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this course has now closed. If you would like to be notified of future courses like this, you can still fill out this form or sign up to Platform’s mailing list at the top of this page....
“Unprecedented Change”? What does a corporation in transition look like? – notes from the Shell AGM 2016
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Jun 9, 2016
“Innovation and care are in our DNA”, says the soft female voice-over that accompanies the new promotional video by Shell. We, the attendees at the corporation’s 2016 Annual General Meeting in the Circus Theater, Scheveningen, sit comfortably in our red velvet seats watching the massive screen above the heads of the Shell directors on the...
We need to hear Black Lives Matter on climate and pollution
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Sep 9, 2016
Tuesday’s news was dominated by Black Lives Matter’s audacious action to shut down City Airport and to force the issue of racism into the media discourse on climate change and environment. You would think that reportedly swimming or paddling their way across a dock to reach the runway was no mean feat but their success...
