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  • BP’s sponsorship of Tate is over!

    BP’s sponsorship of Tate is over!

    Today is one of those days when we know we’re winning. It emerged that BP’s sponsorship of art gallery Tate will end within a year. Until this morning we didn’t know whether Tate would be signing a new deal with the oil company, locking it into fossil fuel promotion for a further 5 years. But in a victory for cultural divestment,…

    11 Mar 2016 mika
  • Walking the Line. New Interactive Documentary

    Walking the Line. New Interactive Documentary

    In Italy, Azerbaijan and the UK people are fighting against the devastating impacts of import pipelines and wresting back control over their energy system. In this beautiful documentary we made with Global Motion, Re:common and Counter Balance we meet the people who live alongside the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline and are organising against this gargantuan piece…

    8 Mar 2016 emma
  • Walking The Line – Sign the Petition

    Walking The Line – Sign the Petition

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    8 Mar 2016 emma
  • Tate to go back to court over BP secrecy

    Tate to go back to court over BP secrecy

    Press release: Tate to go back to court over BP secrecy Tate accused of using technicalities to keep BP sponsorship fees secret. Art museum believed to be reviewing BP deal this year, ahead of potential renewal.[1] Hearing scheduled for 11 May 2016. Please contact for details. Contact: Anna Galkina, Platform / @platformlondon / anna@platformlondon.org Tate…

    Press Release
    7 Mar 2016 anna
  • 2015 – The End of the Eternal Present

    2015 – The End of the Eternal Present

    Notes after a conversation with Doreen Massey, which took place ten days before the one-year anniversary of Syriza’s landslide victory of 25th January 2015. We were reflecting on the past year. What an extraordinary set of events has unfolded in those twelve months – the Syriza election, The Green Surge of last Winter, the transformational…

    4 Mar 2016 james
  • Breaking: The Struggle to Free the Bus: The Twists, the Turns and the Conspiracies 

    Breaking: The Struggle to Free the Bus: The Twists, the Turns and the Conspiracies 

    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…

    24 Feb 2016 jane
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  • Possession – the Boxing Day Floods and the recommoning of the rivers

    Possession – the Boxing Day Floods and the recommoning of the rivers

    We wake in a B&B in Kilnsea, the last village before the shingle bar of Spurn Head that juts out from Holderness in East Yorkshire. All night a South Easterly wind of Force 6, gusting to Force 7, has buffeted the farmhouse. From the windows we can see white horses on the River Humber and…

    13 Jan 2016 james
  • Artists to take over Tate Modern during Paris climate talks for 3-day unauthorised festival

    Artists to take over Tate Modern during Paris climate talks for 3-day unauthorised festival

    For immediate release Unauthorised festival to take over Tate Modern spaces during next weekend of climate talks Contact: Mika Minio-Paluello / +44 7733466038 Full programme available on deadline.org.uk/programme Deadline Festival @Tate takes place exactly a year before Tate’s BP sponsorship deal expires Full programme is now available online. Including poetry, video installations, Caryl Churchill play,…

    Press Release
    30 Nov 2015 anna
  • We will Remember them – those who were hung and those who executed the hanging

    We will Remember them – those who were hung and those who executed the hanging

    Here again. Standing before the white Portland Stone cenotaph of the Shell Center. A crowd of fifty or more in silent attention as the names of the dead are read out: Saturday Dobee Nordu Eawo Daniel Gbooko Paul Levera Felix Nuate Baribor Bera Barinem Kiobel John Kpuinen Ken Saro-Wiwa The chief mourner is Lazarus Tamana,…

    19 Nov 2015 james

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