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Of Turmeric and Truth – ‘Fuel for Thought’ and the struggle in Ogoni
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…
12 Jun 2019 james -
North Sea oil: The unmentionable climate emergency scandal… until now
We’re in a climate emergency – so why is the UK aiming to extract 20 more billions of barrels of oil?! Our research, out today, shows just how far out of touch with reality this plan is – and what the UK needs to do instead, not only to protect the climate, but also workers’…
15 May 2019 anna -
Report: UK oil and gas drilling plans incompatible with responding to climate emergency
Wednesday 15 May 2019 Contact: Anna Markova // Platform // anna@platformlondon.org // 07942044472 Greg Muttitt // Oil Change International // greg@priceofoil.org // 07508 421 527 Connal Hughes // Friends of the Earth Scotland // chughes@foe.scot // 0131 243 2715 Download report The UK’s oil and gas drilling plans are incompatible with responding to the climate…
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Of Plastics and Brexit – the struggle against the new lords of oil & gas
On 16th January 2019 news was leaked through the German paper Handelsblatt of The Alliance to End Plastic Waste. A new industrial coalition that will invest $1billion over the next five years in a campaign to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the world. Here was a powerful body of major corporations determining to…
4 Apr 2019 james -
Volunteering on ‘London Divests’ – guest blog
This blog is by Freya Brindley Rowell who was on placement with Platform in March. She is about to go to university. Nervous, anxious and excited were all things I was feeling as I headed to London to volunteer at Platform. As a person that grew up in the countryside, just navigating my way through…
25 Mar 2019 jane -
Iraq, BP and the British Museum – look upon these works and hang our heads in shame
I had read in advance the briefing that Culture Unstained had put out to accompany the planned action. The protest at the British Museum was to be against BP’s sponsorship of the exhibition ‘I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria’, a display of treasures from the land of Iraq. I read lines…
14 Mar 2019 james -
Hopes and fears in the climate of change….
I have been involved in various climate campaigns and research projects for the last 10 years and have often found myself in rooms full of well meaning, reasonably wealthy, middle aged white people. They are usually the Heads of Sustainability or Corporate Responsibility in their places of work – banks, local authorities, consultancies, funding…
5 Mar 2019 Jo -
Silence in the Storm – Business and No Deal Brexit
The storm in Westminster rages so ferociously that at times it’s hard to hear ourselves think. There is second by second coverage of the House of Commons and Downing Street from every conceivable angle. Backbenchers so obscure that we’ve never heard of them before are dragged through the TV studios and closely cross-questioned. Others…
28 Feb 2019 james -
‘The Knowledge Quarter’ – resistance to capture and divestment from capital
In the Autumn I attended an utterly inspiring Shake! & Stuart Hall Foundation event – the launch of the Black Cultural Activism Map. It was held at the Platform theatre space in the Central Saint Martin’s art school – CSM – part of University of the Arts London. This new premises is a vast warehouse of…
24 Jan 2019 james
