PLATFORM works across disciplines for social and ecological justice. It combines the transformatory power of art with the tangible goals of campaigning, the rigour of in-depth research with the vision to promote alternative futures.
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Barclays Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management… |
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HSBC Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC operates from around 9,500 offices in 86 countries and… |
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RBS RBS was founded in 1727 and is one of the major UK banks. RBS has 40 million customers using the financial services of over 30 brands, including NatWest, Direct Line, Churchill,… |
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Canadian Tar Sands In the Canadian Boreal forest just downstream of the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains are the Canadian tar sands. The region contains some 2 trillion barrels of oil,… |
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Congo Tar Sands Oil sands are a mixture of bitumen and sand. Oil sands production is a carbon-intensive process because it is a hugely inefficient way of extracting and refining the oil.… |
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Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Mountain top removal mining is a form of strip mining in which coal companies use explosives to blast as much as 800 to 1000 feet off the tops of mountains order to reach… |
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Banksecrets Website exposing investments of thirteen large European banks in harmful practices and companies. |
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Banksecrets International website developed by BankTrack, CRBM, Les Amis de la Terre, Netwerk Vlaanderen, Platform, Setem and Urgewald.
Information in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish. |
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RBS- the oil bank of Scotland |
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Unravelling the Carbon Web This is a project by PLATFORM, working to reduce the environmental and social impacts of oil corporations, to help citizens gain a say in decisions that affect them, and to support the transition to a more sustainable energy economy. |
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RBS protests pictures Apr 29, 2010
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videos
| 10 Reasons Why Bankers are Mostly Human Jan 04, 2012 - 2011 was the year full of controversies. Our cyber satire unveils banks and bankers that talk green but invest in climate killer coal fired power plants. |
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| curing RBS of its oil addiction Aug 29, 2011 - Short video on campaign on RBS and their investments in oil/tar sands |
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| Curing RBS its oil addiction Aug 29, 2011 - Campaign to clean up the bailed out banks like RBS |
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| Protests at RBS AGM Apr 21, 2011 - Protesters dressed as oil addicted bankers demonstrate outside the Royal Bank of Scotland AGM in Edinburgh. |
| Dirty Money Mar 21, 2011 - Research group PLATFORM launches a new report 'Dirty Money - Corporate greenwash and RBS coal finance'. |
| A Sticking Point Feb 01, 2011 - Poker-face as you've never heard it in a place you've never seen it - how to close the Royal Bank of Scotland with songs and superglue. |
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| Cleaning up the Royal Bank of Scotland Sep 30, 2010 - short video about activities around the RBS Annual General Meeting earlier this year |
| What's wrong with RBS Aug 30, 2010 - Platform's Kevin Smith and Hannah from Corporate Watch explain why they campaign against RBS |
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| Trojan pig makes a mess at Cairn energy Aug 26, 2010 - a three min video of people carrying a 'trojan piggy' bank to RBS-financed Cairn Energy HQ (who are currently drilling in arctic Greenland) and covering it in oil |
| Mel Evans about Platform and BankTrack May 19, 2010 - Video shot during the BankTrack annual meeting in Zuerich, January 2010. |
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| BBC item on RBS AGM 2010 Apr 29, 2010 - involving protest of local UK groups |
| Banking in the Shadows .. a Trip to Jersey Sep 07, 2009 - The British Channel Island of Jersey is a major European tax haven.
In March 2009, European activists visited Jersey to expose how tax havens affect the lives of ordinary people around the world. |
| Lawsuit on RBS on channel 4 Jul 07, 2009 - item on channel 4 news describing lawsuit on UK government support for RBS |
