Thanks to everyone who made it down to Rich Mix for our latest film night, ‘Power Hungry: Cutting the corporate control of energy’. And a massive thank you to all of our speakers and everyone who gave a shout-out about their own energy campaigns.
We’ll be putting a write-up on the website soon, but in the meantime, here are links to all the films and campaigning resources to put on your own Power Hungry film night anywhere in the country (or world!)
Opening trailers:
- Green Peace spoof of fox striking oil in the Arctic
- Green Peace spoof of Shell’s readiness for a spill
- Greedy Lying Bastards (trailer)
First half:
Our corporate controlled energy system and industry attempts to keep it that way
- Worse than Bad (campaign against Shell’s activities in Nigeria)
- Short interview with Wole Solyinka (from 27 minutes in)
- Tar Sands: To the Ends of the Earth – not out yet, sorry!
- Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
Second half:
Resisting the system and building a new one
- Friends of the Earth International Chair, Nnimmo Bassey, talking about recognising Ecocide
- Green Peace activists closing down Shell forecourts
- IBEKA’s community-owned micro-hydro electricity projects in Indonesia
- Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) wind turbine workshops
Information on speakers and shout-outs:
- Arts and activism organisation, Platform, who are looking at the social, environmental and economic impacts of the oil industry
- The Oil Road, which was referenced by speaker Emma Hughes
- Greenpeace’s Save the Arctic campaign
- UK Tar Sands Network
- Frack Off!
- Friends of the Earth International; ERA Nigeria
- Eradicating Ecocide
- Ashden Awards (who support projects like IBEKA’s)
- Friends of the Earth’s Clean British Energy campaign
- Community Energy Warwickshire (and Co-operatives UK’s guide to community energy co-ops and what it takes)
- Fuel Poverty Action
- Brixton Energy Cooperative
- Alliance for Jobs and Climate
- Friends of the Earth Hackney and Tower Hamlets local group
- Occupy LSX
