Perth Festival cuts links to Chevron
From our friends at Fossil Free Arts:
'Friends, we did it!!
'Pressure on British Museum to ditch BP mounts following UK's record summer heatwave'
Thanks to the Art Newspaper for running this story:
'Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point'...
'Artist stages intervention at Shell-sponsored climate exhibition'
Taken from the Morning Star, 12.9.22:
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/artist-stages-intervention-sh…
Artist Darren Cullen challenged an exhibition sponsored by Shell at London’s Science Museum by staging an “impromptu intervention” on Friday.
South Asia Solidarity Group vs. Adani
The South Asia Solidarity Group protested against Adani sponsorship of the Science Museum both outside and inside it on August 31st 2022, on the evening of its India-related 'Lates' event:
Hundreds of teachers boycott Science Museum show over Adani sponsorship
From The Guardian (15.7.22):
Hundreds of teachers have pledged not to take their students to a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London until it cancels its sponsorship deal with a company linked to the coalminer Adani.
Fossil Free Science Museum coalition returns
From our friends at UKSCN:
29.6.22: 'today, we visited the science museum with the Fossil Free Science Museum coalition to demand that they drop Adani as a sponsor #StopAdani with this climate crime scene we wanted to highlight the crimes of @Gautam_Adani against indigenous communities and the planet'
Mass BP action at British Museum ends with creative occupation of four galleries
Last night (April 23rd), we occupied four rooms inside the British Museum after hours in protest against the museum’s controversial sponsor, the oil giant BP. Our performers smuggled in a huge, 10-metre version of the oil company’s logo, made from wood and fabric, which we dramatically “dismantled” in a hundreds-strong performance in the museum’s Great Court at 4pm.