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20 Mar 2014 adminMarch 2014 – Egypt, the Arctic and events in London & Oxford
March 2014 – Egypt, the Arctic, Oxford & London 20 March 2014 Dear All,New research from us in Egypt and the Arctic, upcoming events in London and Oxford, updates from the last Shake! course, and some thoughts on how arts organizations can approach the tricky issue of ethical fundraising. Gas corruption in Egypt We released our new…
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Arts and Ethical Fundraising Policies – you know they make sense
In the context of the furore that’s raging about artists provoking the Sydney Biennale to reject funding from Transfield Holdings – who run offshore detention centres for asylum seekers – now is the moment to really grasp just how incendiary the sources of our funding can be. Or to put it positively, just how important…
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Shell’s new direction needs to address Arctic investor risk and Niger Delta clean up
Thurs 13th March 2014 ** For immediate release ** Commenting on today’s Shell Management Meeting where CEO Ben van Beurden sets out new directions for the company, Sarah Shoraka, an oil and human rights campaigner from Platform said: Shell’s profit warning in January was exactly a decade on from the Shell Reserves Scandal of 2004.…
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‘The Bus’ memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa is on the move…
Today, the Bus moved from Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham where it has been for three years, round the corner to Hale Village where it will be throughout 2014. The Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa, aka The Bus, is a spectacular steel sculpture by artist Sokari Douglas Camp. Platform commissioned it in 2005, the…
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Sign the petition: Shell must clean up its oil pollution in the Niger Delta
[emailpetition id=”2″ width=”100%”] The Niger Delta is one of the most polluted places on earth, laid to waste by an oil industry that does not respect people or the environment. It wasn’t always that way. Before Shell first discovered oil in Nigeria in 1956, it was a globally important wetland habitat with rich biodiversity, providing livelihoods for people…
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Why we’re telling Shell’s investors to tell Shell to stop Arctic drilling
A tricky, or should I even say embarrassing, moment in Shell’s history: on 31 October 2013 the company announced that they would be returning to drill in the Arctic in 2014, after all the mishaps and near-disasters of 2012. Three months later, they had to announce they wouldn’t be drilling in 2014 after all.…
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19 Feb 2014 adminFebruary 14: Gas grabbing in Algeria, floods & fossil fuel subsidies & more
Gas grabbing in Algeria, Floods & fossil fuel subsidies & more 19 February 2014 Dear All,Welcome to our first newsletter of 2014. We’ve got some new reasearch published on the link between the UK’s “gas grab” and human rights abuses in Algeria, an intervention we’ve been making to link the recent flooding to fossil fuels, a report…
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New law in Nigeria could hold polluters to account
Last week, a letter coordinated by Platform and signed by 18 organisations was published in the Nigerian media. The letter focussed on a new piece of legislation designed to improve the response to oil spills. In 2012, Senator Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Chair of the Senate committee for the environment tabled a bill aimed at strengthening…
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UK foreign policy & the Algerian dictatorship – “an ideal relationship?”
A guest blog from Hamza Hamouchene of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign and author of our newly published report Reinforcing Dictatorships – Britain’s Grab and Human Rights in Algeria. After more than six months of researching and documenting the British energy interests in my country Algeria, I feel extremely happy that the Algerian-British relations came under scrutiny from the…
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It exists because it exists – Bioregional activism in the Chesapeake watershed
Mika Minio-Paluello, Anna Galkina and James Marriott travelled in North America as part of a tour over September and October to promote The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian to the City of London. The tenth of a series of blogs on the journey comes from Maryland … St John’s Church, Baltimore, Maryland “Crabs…
