Greater London

Tullow's controversial drilling in Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda continues to threaten wildlife and local communities' income, leading to increased opposition.
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Shell sponsor high-profile exhibition on climate change at Science Museum. Good thing?

Except that the exhibition backs down from the need for urgent action to deal with climate change. Chris Rapley, the museum's director, went as far as stating that “The Science Museum will not state a position on whether or not climate change is real, driven by humans or threatening.” A Reuters article covering the story was titled "London Science Museum goes climate science neutral".

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Dorothea Smartt (African Writers Abroad) joined the C Words closing Party and Benefit for the Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaigners live via Skype. She performed her specially commisioned poem, A Sense of Denial, together with several other poems written specifically to the C Words season and inspired by the issues raised.

A Sense of Denial

Denial looks black, panelled, silver-edged
and gleaming. Car-washed in water
enough to quench a dying village’s thirst,  Read more

On 1st December PLATFORM's Agitpod mobile cinema will set off on it's return journey from Bristol to London, why not join us?  Read more