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  • 25 Jun 2013 admin

    Winning against the odds – How an Egyptian community stopped BP in its tracks

    (Video produced by Mosireen, supported by Platform & EIPR) We recently visited a small Egyptian town that fought off plans by giant BP to build a gas terminal on its land as part of an $11 billion project. After a year of delays, the oil company was forced to re-route its proposed pipeline and processing…

    Winning against the odds – How an Egyptian community stopped BP in its tracks

  • 21 Feb 2012 jane
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    Don’t throw activist histories away: Huntley Conference on Arts & Activism, Culture & Resistance

    18th February, London There were over a 100 artists, activists, community workers, young people, archivists & conservators, educators, parents, grandparents, policymakers. We were taking part in talks, creative “Groundings” sessions, a parallel youth conference, music & poetry performances, from the fabulous El Crisis, younger talented artists, and the more experienced, discussing race and power, creativity and…

    Don’t throw activist histories away: Huntley Conference on Arts & Activism, Culture & Resistance

  • London-based oil-mercenary company marches into Libya

    Oil and private military/mercenary company Heritage has muscled its way into Libya. The London-based oil company is the first new foreign oil company to buy its way into Libya, after acquiring a controlling 51% stake in Sahara Oil Services – which apparently brings the right to bid for and operate oil and gas licenses in…


  • 26 Aug 2011 admin
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    Crackdown intensifies in oil region – Shell pledges to keep paying Syrian regime

    The crackdown on the Syrian uprising has intensified in the eastern oil region around Deir Az-Zour. According to the FT, The towns of Mayadin and Burhama were attacked on Wednesday, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist group, with tanks and machine guns used during mass arrest campaigns. Another local resident said she had…

    Crackdown intensifies in oil region – Shell pledges to keep paying Syrian regime

  • C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture

    Newspaper-catalogue for Platform’s major exhibition and 50-day season of events at Arnolfini, Bristol, Oct/Nov 2009. Contains essays and schedule of events, workshops, courses, art-interventions, film screenings, courses and performances on issues of climate justice in the run-up to the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change – COP 15 – in Copenhagen. Download the C Words…

    C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture

  • 13 Sep 2011 admin

    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…

    Economy