250 take over British Museum in “festival of protest” against BP sponsorship

Описание: The British Museum is sponsored by planet-wrecking oil villains BP. Ugh. Our response? Take over the museum for an entire day.

Sixteen different action groups and hundreds of performers staged an all-day "protest festival" including powerful poetry, eloquent 12-year-olds, guerrilla Shakespeare, simultaneous banner-drops and even bagpipes. It all culminated with a spectacular mass flashmob action.

Please watch and share this film to tell our cultural institutions to #dropbp! You can also sign the petition at www.dropbp.org.

Performances also took place at three other BP-sponsored institutions on the same day - Tate Britain, the Royal Opera House and the National Portrait Gallery. All four organisations have deals with BP that are due to expire in 2017. Read the full story of the day here: http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/blog/art-...

See photos of all the performances here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

The day was organised by the Art Not Oil coalition (www.artnotoil.org) and featured Christian Climate Action, Codswallop Creative, Platform - activism, education and the arts/Azerbaijan Solidarity Campaign, Fuel Poverty Action, London Rising Tide, Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement - DANCE South-West, Children Against Global Warming, Los Perros Romanticos, London Quakers, BP or not BP?, Fossil Free KCL, Divest London, Fossil Free Warwick University, DANCE London and Liberate Tate.