[Imc-germany-editorial] inexplicable deletion

[Diet Simon]

Dear collective,

inexplicably, you have taken my story about one of the world’s biggest 
banks, Standard Chartered, announcing that it will not fund any new 
coal-fired power plant projects. A huge win for people power activism.

My report includes:

/“NGOs and community groups from around the world have been campaigning 
hard to convince Standard Chartered to rule out all new coal,” writes 
one of them, Australia-based Market Forces, calling the bank’s 
announcement “incredible news”./

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/“Although headquartered in the UK, Standard Chartered is … effectively 
based in Singapore. It is dominant in Southeast Asia, where over 100 
Gigawatts of new coal power plants are proposed. Not a single one of 
them could be considered compatible with holding global warming below 2ºC. /

//

/“People and organisations from around the world had called on Standard 
Chartered to rule out new coal power plants in their policy update. Over 
an intense few months of campaigning, which involved tens of thousands 
of people writing to the bank, messages came in from almost every part 
of the world./

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/“Market Forces coordinated with global NGOs and groups in Vietnam to 
publish a full-page ad in the Asian Financial Times, insisting the 
bank's policy update rules out new coal completely and removes them from 
the three Vietnamese power stations they were in line to finance./

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/“It looks like the wishes of those people, especially our friends in 
Vietnam, have been met!/

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/“To illustrate how significant this is, since the start of this decade 
Standard Chartered had funded over 10,000 Megawatts of new coal power 
plants. Before its policy update, the bank was in line to finance three 
new coal power plants in Vietnam that would have added 700 million 
tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere each year. This is a huge change of 
direction and one we desperately needed as we fight to prevent new dirty 
coal power being built around the world.”/

Precisely the kind of activism for which the Indymedia movement was 
started years ago. Activist methods worth reading about and possibly 
inspiring others to do likewise. What is your problem with that?

Or is it a personal vendetta against me because I dared to criticise 
your methods years ago?

You seem to have lost your way….

Diet

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