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Bribes, bulldozers and BP: what makes a gas mega pipeline?
Earlier this week, the Guardian’s Azerbaijani Laundromat investigation uncovered thousands of covert payments totaling £2.2bn from Azerbaijan’s ruling elite to prominent Europeans through a network of...
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The River Resurfaces – reflecting on politically engaged art from the 1970s...
Joseph Beuys’ action – ‘I like America and America likes me’, (Coyote), photographed by Caroline Tisdall, New York, 1974 I’m sitting talking with Caroline Tisdall, a friend who has known Platform...
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Boom! – Historic Union Vote for Climate Transition
A worker led movement for climate justice came one step closer to reality yesterday as the UK trade union movement unanimously passed a motion calling for a just climate transition for workers,...
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How would you measure our effectiveness?
A few weeks back, Matt Shardlow, CEO of Buglife, tweeted the chart underneath. It shows Platform apparently outstripping other UK environmental organisations in terms of our impact relative to our...
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The Great Gas Lock-in
New Report out on the gas industry’s lobbying power This year we have seen devastating hurricanes and floods, deadly wildfires, and other extreme climate catastrophes. But rather than facing up to the...
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Revealed: UK council pensions are banking £16.1 billion on climate disaster
Today we’re releasing new data analysis showing that UK councils invest £16.1 billion in fossil fuel corporations through their workers’ pensions. These investments are bankrolling the companies most...
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Today, remembering the Ogoni Bill of Rights
Road to Justice. Artwork by Alfredo Jaar, Sokari Douglas Camp, designed by Jon Daniel. See below. 10th November 2017 marks the 22nd anniversary since the executions of nine Ogoni men from the Niger...
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No TAP. No TANAP. Not here. Not anywhere.
Earlier this morning, a group of us demonstrated outside the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to demand that the bank rescinds its Oct 18th commitment to finance $500 for TANAP...
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‘How you would have loved these times’ – A conversation with Doreen Massey
Fieldfares in flight – migrating to Britain from the tundra with the coming of winter The days tip towards the darkness of Winter. The world of the North comes into our lives. The year stops and takes...
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Transitions Just and Unjust – the question of power
A’Chailleach, one of the peaks of the Fannich mountains We’re descending from the peak of A’ Chailleach (The wise old Woman). Trudging down the steep slope of Sron na Goibhre (Under the Nose/promontary...
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Avebury and the infrastructure of community
Avebury Henge – part of the Neolithic stone circle Over the Winter Break I walked at Avebury in Wiltshire with Nick Robins, a long term Platformer, who’s worked on several projects and was a Trustee....
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Victory at La Zad ! – inspirational resistance through community
The people of Notres Dame des Landes have won! The people of La Zad have won! The airport that the French state have tried to build for 50 years has been defeated! On 17th January President Macron...
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In memoriam Ed Ross – in honour of one who honoured others
A Robin sings among the bare branches of the Ash trees. A small crowd is gathered in a corner of Highgate Cemetery to commit the ashes of Ed Ross to the earth. A few hundred yards away, obscured by...
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Communal Memory – the power of community to resist Shell in Nigeria
Front cover of Amnesty International’s report on Shell’s complicity in human rights abuse in Ogoni I’m holding in my hands a report published by Amnesty International in November last year – ‘A...
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Defending the NHS – Platform and a community of health
Recently I was sitting talking with a friend who was relating the harrowing tale of her partner’s sudden illness. My heart was in my mouth as she described the paramedics arriving in minutes to their...
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What’s the role of climate change in Snowmageddon and the gas crunch?
National Grid issued emergency warnings last week when snow and freezing temperatures caused a gas crunch in the UK. With great tact, Big 6 company E.on chose the same week to hike average energy bills...
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La Zad puts down roots – sensing the future
Live performance by the Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp We’re in the middle of the crowd. Standing some way back from the stage, watching transfixed and elated at the performance of Orchestre...
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The slow dismantling the house of oil – The Gulbenkian Foundation divests
Calouste Gulbenkian at the height of his powers as an oil titan Quite unexpected comes remarkable news! Lucy Neal, a long-term part of the Platform family, e-mails out of the blue, forwarding an...
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Home is a Hostile Lover – ending the UK Government’s racist deportations regime
Hundreds gather outside the court to support the Stansted 15 and demand an end to deportations. Credit End Deportations ‘Home is a hostile lover’ a poem by Selina Nwulu is read from the concrete...
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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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