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Ben Kempas

@benkempas.com
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Docu filmmaker-turned-campaigner-turned-livestreamer at Film & Campaign Ltd. Impact campaign strategist for #TheOilMachine. Born @ 332ppm. Old German, new Scot, pro indy. www.filmcampaign.org

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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 12/03/2026
Excited to be working on this and wishing I could be in Copenhagen just now!
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 21/09/2025
We’re taling the message of THE PICKERS from Maastricht, the birthplace of the modern EU, right to its centre in Brussels. We’re joining the #BackToTheFuture March by @foeeurope.bsky.social & others, and showing the film along the way: campaign.thepickers.org/march #WeWantAFairPick #March4Rights
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 05/06/2025
And if you can't make it to the @thepickers.org event tonight, you can still make your voice heard. Please consider signing our 10 demands for migrant workers' rights: campaign.thepickers.org/fairpick #WeWantAFairPick
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We want a FAIR PICK
We want a FAIR PICK: This is why we demand 10 essential guarantees for migrant workers.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 05/06/2025
And if you can't make it to the @thepickers.org event tonight, you can still make your voice heard. Please consider signing our 10 demands for migrant workers' rights: campaign.thepickers.org/fairpick #WeWantAFairPick
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We want a FAIR PICK
We want a FAIR PICK: This is why we demand 10 essential guarantees for migrant workers.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 05/06/2025
Edinburgh pals, do you agree our food should be free of exploitation? Will I see you after the film THE PICKERS tonight? This week we've been launching European-wide, community-hosted events – and there's one at @themeltingpoted.bsky.social tonight! themeltingpot.spaces.nexudus.com/events/14155...
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FAIR PICK Coalition @fairpickcoalition.org · 31/05/2025
The Meet THE PICKERS Tour delivered fair oranges to @oxfam-de.bsky.social in Berlin! Oxfam volunteers across Germany and Spain are hosting screenings to explore this crucial topic. Will you join them? campaign.thepickers.org/host #WeWantAFAIRPICK
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 26/05/2025
With impact campaigns, you can easily and happily stay in an activist bubble. The challenge always is to reach beyond that. For THE PICKERS, we drove our refrigerated van with fairly picked oranges to the global headquarters of ALDI Süd in Salzburg to show them the film and talk about our campaign.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 21/05/2025
We've now gathered more than 1,000 signatures for our demand to offer 10 essential guarantees to migrant workers that pick our daily fruit and veg. Would you sign this, too? campaign.thepickers.org/fairpick (also available in French, German and Italian) #WeWantAFairPick
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We want a FAIR PICK
We want a FAIR PICK: This is why we demand 10 essential guarantees for migrant workers.
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FAIR PICK Coalition @fairpickcoalition.org · 23/04/2025
#WeWantAFAIRPICK - Do we need a FAIR PICK certification label like Fair Trade or Organic? We've handed out fairly produced oranges to folks like @publiceye.ch and hosted screenings including the one @ethzurich.bsky.social as the Meet THE PICKERS Tour travelled across Switzerland 🍊
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FAIR PICK Coalition @fairpickcoalition.org · 16/04/2025
In Basel we met with our partners from Swiss Fair Trade hearing about their important work, including how we can safeguard and argue for legislation that effectively protects human rights. We had another packed screening in a temple of good food, the Markthalle Basel.
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FAIR PICK Coalition @fairpickcoalition.org · 15/04/2025
During our time in Geneva The Meet THE PICKERS Tour has met key people and organisations working to eliminate the exploitation of migrant workers. Watch today's update on the tour to follow the Meet THE PICKERS Campaign progress 👇🍊
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 10/04/2025
We’re on the road in Switzerland with a refrigerated van – for a good cause! Follow @thepickers.org and join us on our journey around Europe over the next five weeks.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 29/03/2025
In German: kampagne.thepickers.org/fairpick
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Für eine gerechte Ernte
Wir wollen einen FAIR PICK. Deshalb fordern wir 10 grundlegenden Garantien für Wanderarbeiter:innen
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 29/03/2025
In Italian: campagna.thepickers.org/fairpick
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Vogliamo una RACCOLTA EQUA
Vogliamo una RACCOLTA EQUA - We want a FAIR PICK. Per questo chiediamo 10 garanzie essenziali per le lavoratrici e i lavoratori migranti:
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 29/03/2025
In French: campagne.thepickers.org/fairpick
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Nous demandons un choix équitable
Exigez 10 garanties essentielles pour les travailleur.euse.s migrant.e.s
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 29/03/2025
In English: campaign.thepickers.org/fairpick
campaign.thepickers.org
We want a FAIR PICK
We want a FAIR PICK: This is why we demand 10 essential guarantees for migrant workers.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 29/03/2025
Are you enjoying your daily fruit and veg? Spare a thought for the people who pick them, often in miserable conditions. Our campaign @thepickers.org uses the documentary film THE PICKERS to draw attention to their plight. You can be among the first-ever people to sign our call for a FAIR PICK.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 09/01/2025
I've been on Bluesky for a while, but we've just set up a company account here, too. So those of you who know about Film & Campaign Ltd. could do me a huge favour and be the first-ever followers of @filmcampaign.org ...? Photo is the view from our office. Our work is all about building bridges...
Forth Bridge as seen from our office.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 18/12/2024
It was a special day today – International Migrants Day – to announce that we'll be producing an impact campaign around the film THE PICKERS in 2025. The documentary follows migrant workers in Europe who pick our daily fruit and veg – under precarious conditions. www.filmcampaign.org/who_picks_th...
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Who picks the food that feeds Europe?
Campaign for ‘The Pickers’ announced on International Migrants Day
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 13/08/2024
I‘ve been slow with the transition myself but I love the sight of my fellow butterflies here.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 30/05/2024
Forgot to share this on here – earlier this month we organised an event on behalf of @sonjahenrici.bsky.social at Dynamic Earth to celebrate some 300 events we've been facilitating for #TheOilMachine, and to remind politicians in #Holyrood of the urgency to act... FAO @ewangibbs.bsky.social
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 30/05/2024
For folk in Germany: Today, an impact tour of German cinemas begins for 'Hinter guten Türen', a very personal doc by Julia Beerhold about the violence she experienced as a child. For Mindjazz Pictures, we've been facilitating partnerships with a number of key charities. www.hintergutentueren.de
Plakat mit dem Text: "Papa schlug einen Verband um meine Wunde. Und dann mitten drauf." – "Hinter guten Türen". Ein Dokumentarfilm von Julia Beerhold. In ausgewählten Kinos.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 29/02/2024
Happy Leap Year Day, everyone! Earlier this month, a brilliant new employee leaped into our office: Tabita Knoblauch (centre) has joined us as bilingual impact producer for two German-based projects, a German-Swedish coproduction, and many more!
Two women and a man in an office, looking at the camera while holding a spray can labelled 'Multi-Purpose Impact'.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 23/12/2023
Sorry, still a bit slow with posting things on here… Earlier this month, after more than a year of getting the film #TheOilMachine out there, we finally presented clips from it to Members of Parliament in Westminster, and we discussed an urgent question: “Is the North Sea out of our control?”
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 01/12/2023
Gute Arbeit. The privilege was ours, too.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 01/12/2023
Great screenshot! Am missing you all already.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 01/12/2023
Feeling a bit melancholic today. At Film & Campaign, we've produced the livestreams for 77 (out of 140+) briefings held by @independentsage.bsky.social. Today was the last one. It's already had some 13,000 views on that other platform that allows for livestreaming... twitter.com/IndependentS...
Monitor showing a livestream production setup with previews of lots of different video signals, showing various members of Independent SAGE
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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
In Scottish wholesomeness, there's a guy who runs around Helensburgh each night making different grid patterns for his young son on Strava.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 03/11/2023
#TheOilMachine is touring Norway – starting today in Trømso! www.theoilmachine.org/norway
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 31/10/2023
This was an important event providing an alternative #PeoplesAI perspective ahead of the UK government's own AI Safety Summit. It was so insightful to serve as the livestream producer of this one!
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 31/10/2023
On the eve of our activities with #TheOilMachine in Norway, an official Climate Committee report for the Norwegian government says a complete halt in oil exploration is inevitable. English press release: files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no/wpuploads01/... Norwegian news: www.nrk.no/klima/skanck...
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Skancke-utvalget vil ha stans i all olje- og gassleting for å nå klimamålene i 2050
Klimautvalget anbefaler å ikke lete etter mer olje før en plan for å fase ut olje- og gassutvinning er på plass. Det møter politisk motstand.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 26/10/2023
Join us on Monday night for a screening of the award-winning feature documentary THE OIL MACHINE and a discussion called 'After THE OIL MACHINE: What Norway and the UK can learn from each other'. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, starting from free. Get yours now: watch.eventive.org/theoilmachin...
Graphic announcing the screening and showing headshots of the panelists:

Jake Molloy - Just Transition Team (RMT Union, Aberdeen)

Camilla Houeland - Researcher (The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research)

Asle Reime - National Secretary - International (Industri Energi)

Elise Tunstrom - Chief of Staff (Manifest Tankesmie)

Gabrielle Jeliazkov - Co-Author of the 'Our Power' report

Aled Dilwyn Fisher - Climate Crisis Advisor (Naturvernforbundet)
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 26/10/2023
But then the UK may be repeating mistakes of the past by not giving the state a controlling share of ownership in renewables. There is lots to talk about between the UK and Norway, and we'll bring the right people together to do just that. And you can all join. 2/
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 26/10/2023
Norway has been a lot wiser than the UK in terms of using the wealth from oil and gas for the common good. Yet now the UK is leading the way in terms of the efforts to achieve a Just Transition for oil workers to the world of renewable energy. 1/
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 25/10/2023
I'm expecting the book to be delivered in the next few days, unless something unexpected happens.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 25/10/2023
After a year of touring the UK, chuffed to be bringing #TheOilMachine to Norway in a brilliant collaboration with @naturvern.bsky.social and the #BroenTilFramtiden (Bridge to the Future) coalition. (If you think hashtags aren't working on Bluesky, try the Graysky client app.)
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 23/10/2023
Having live-produced 100+ sessions of @independentsage.bsky.social, I am very prepared for this. 🙃
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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 13/10/2023
I stopped posting drawings to social media platforms a while back, but by way of introduction…
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 21/10/2023
Aye, would still be nicer if it played inline. At least we can post pictures! (Still testing.)
Middle-aged man standing between trees on the shore of a peaceful Scottish loch surrounded by a forest in autumn colours.
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 21/10/2023
All very useful, thanks both!
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 21/10/2023
Underrated post 👇
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 21/10/2023
Just testing, if I put a YouTube video here, will it play inline? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsso... This is James Marriott on the occasion of the North American tour of #TheOilMachine, a Scottish film on our entanglement in oil & gas. Been running the campaign for this film for more than a year now!
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After THE OIL MACHINE in the United States
"The British North Sea is an American problem," says James Marriott of Platform London. On the occasion of the documentary THE OIL MACHINE touring the United...
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 21/10/2023
Thanks for doing that. It was a good one (the tiny type on slides aside...)!
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Ben Kempas @benkempas.com · 20/10/2023
Hello! Anybody out there? With thanks to @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social of @independentsage.bsky.social for the invite!
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