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9.40am at the Stephen Lawrence Centre and all is quiet, waiting for participants to arrive and the final day's work to begin.  Read more

My name is Ed, and I teach about politics, religion and philosophy, and one of the other things I do is volunteer at PLATFORM. For Most of the past few weeks I've been enjoying the privilege of summer holidays, but this week I'm participating in an experiment. It's a course for young people called SHAKE!.  Read more

Monday 16th sees 14 participants aged between 16 and 25 meet with artists DJ Eric Soul, poets Zena Edwards and Simon Murray from African Writers Abroad, and Ana Tovey from Chocolate Films at the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, for SHAKE! Ben Amunwa, Jane Trowell and Ed Lewis from PLATFORM are coordinating...
http://remembersarowiwa.com/events-2/

This week-long course is a central part of our year-long residency with SLC called "Shaping the Future". http://remembersarowiwa.com/shaping-the-future-global-art-project-launch...  Read more

A new report produced by conservative thinktank Policy Exchange - described as David Cameron's "favourite", promotes upstream carbon taxes as more effective than market-based cap & trade in reducing emissions.  Read more

From the Daily Monitor: "The insistence on tax has put the entire deal on ice. The President’s feelings on the matter were put forcefully and emotively by Energy Minister Hilary Onek in a phone interview on Friday. 'Arbitration only arises in the case of other disputes - not tax,' Eng. Onek said, warning that the government was ready to take “extreme measures” to ensure that it received its full pay in capital gains tax.  Read more

From the RSW blog: "New from Talib Kweli, this hard-hitting music video unpacks the story of of Nigeria’s oil curse, the Ogoni struggle and the complicit role of Western governments and companies. Warning: this video contains strong political lyrics."  Read more

From Rossport's Shell to Sea Campaign: Sign up to BEAT THE BOREHOLES!!
Join a continuous mass act of civil disobedience this summer at Sruth Fháda Chonn estuary.  Read more

While drilling holes in the Atlantic seafloor and mining tar sands, BP has also been working with Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics to geoengineer microbes that could be injected into tar sands to release methane and create algae-based biofuels, according to Jim Thomas of etc group writing for  Read more

With the media searching for new angles on BP's Gulf disaster, stories on the devastation in Nigeria and the "normality" of spills in the Delta are now finally making it back into the papers - see Benoit Faucon's piece in the Wall Street Journal and Adam Nossiter's NYT article.  Read more