Oil on the Warpath programme

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 11:11

Oil on the Warpath
challenging the oil empire

Saturday 27 March 2004 10am-6pm
Friends Meeting House, James St, Sheffield

Programme

When	What	Who
	Morning Session
10.10 – 10.20	Introduction	Jan, Sheffield Stop the War coalition
10.20 – 10.30	Overview of the day	Jo Hamilton, Rising Tide
10.30 – 11.00	Overview of worldwide oil expansion	Ian Rutledge, Independent Energy Consultant / Sheffield Univ
11.00 – 11.30	After the military war the economic war – BP and Shell in Iraq	James Marriott, Platform
11.30 – 11.45	Questions & Discussion
11.45 – 12.00	BREAK
12.00 – 12.20	Climate Change – overview and political process: why action is needed	Mark Lynas, journalist and author
12.20 – 12.50	Bankrolling oil and war – the International Financial Institutions, how to oppose them and what they’re up to	Nick Hildyard and Larry Lohmann, The Cornerhouse
12.50 – 1.00	Call to action and campaign ideas	Rising Tide
1.00 – 1.15	Questions & Discussion
1.15 – 2.15	LUNCH (Videos showing in main hall)
2.15 – 3.30	Workshop Round 1
	Campaigning on oil developments - lessons learnt from Baku-Ceyhan campaign	Nick Hildyard
	Ian Rutledge
	Ideas for local action – no new oil, getting active locally	Rising Tide
3.30 – 3.45	BREAK
3.45 – 5.00	Workshop Round 2
	new frontiers for campaigning on oil and war – planning campaigns and resistance	Platform & Rising Tide
	Impacts of climate change	Mark Lynas
	carbon trading and world bank - how the financial institutions and the fossil fuel companies are stitching up the solutions agenda	Larry Lohmann
5.00 – 6.00	Final plenary session and wrap up

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