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Win! Mayor of London and More Councils Back Divestment
Credit: Divest London Yesterday, the Mayor of London joined the divestment movement. Sadiq Khan announced plans to divest the London Pension Fund from fossil fuels, calling on other London boroughs to...
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Spring in the Thames Valley – The extraordinary resistance of the more than...
Male Blackbird in full song. Even in the dark the Blackbird sings. The bubbling song fills the night outside our bedroom window. You sleep silently, the bedclothes rising and falling, as the notes of...
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Vive La Zad ! – in the midst of the tear gas, La Zad exists in our hearts
French police armoured vehicle on the road into La Zad surrounded by clouds of tear gas, Tuesday 10th April The police arrived at 03.00 am on the morning of Monday 9th April. The exact number is, of...
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Aliyev re-elected as President for another 7 years – the chain of oil...
Ilham Aliyev voting in the Azeri Presidential elections 11th April 2018. Behind him stands his daughter Leyla Aliyeva, waiting to vote. On 18th April Ilham Aliyev will be inaugurated for the fourth...
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The Invisible Machine – a gas pipeline in the Caucasus and a handshake in No10
Prime Minister May welcomes President Aliyev to No 10 Downing Street – April 26th 2018 On the evening of Thursday 26th April 2018, it was warm and sunny in London. President Ilham Aliyev strode down...
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Update: The Bus, its seizure and our story
Celestine AkpoBari addressing the vigil for the Ogoni 9, Nigeria, 2013. Photo: Patrick Kane Here is the latest on the campaign to pressurise Nigeria Customs release the Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa...
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BP Chairman: “fracking is a great opportunity” but don’t ask us about the risks
Today I attended BP’s annual shareholder meeting alongside Fernando Cabrera from OPSur (Argentina). Fernando came to challenge BP’s board on the dangers from their fracking operations. BP’s Argentinian...
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Decades of neglect, years of waiting: it’s time to clean up Ogoniland’s oil...
Photo: Sarah Shoraka 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...
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#FromNopeToHope – Salon des Réfuseurs for our time
Heads up everybody interested in powerful political art and graphics. The exhibition From Nope To Hope – Art vs Arms, Oil and Injustice is running for an extra week, in Brixton Rec, London. Come and...
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Victory at Leith Hill! Divest Fracking! Resisting sites of speculation
A light projection onto the famous Leith Hill Tower celebrating the victory to stop fracking around this beautiful Surrey Hill This piece was written before the news of the draconian jail sentences...
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