Climate Rush holds picnic at Tate Britain to remember the oil spill
On the first anniversary of BP's oil disaster, Climate Rush held a party and art show to protest outside Tate Britain. As they point out, disasters such as this oil spill are only a part of the enormous damage BP causes to the planet.
Students protest against BP sponsorship of Manchester Museum exhibition, 20.4.11
For immediate release: Thursday 21st April 2011
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Oil spilled inside Tate Britain on Gulf of Mexico anniversary
(Photo by Amy Scaife: http://www.amyscaife.co.uk)
20.4.11: Art activists stage performance against gallery links with BP
166 artists sign Guardian letter opposing BP's presence in Tate
This letter was pulled together by PLATFORM/Licence to Spill...
The Guardian, Wednesday 20 April 2011: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/apr/20/tate-end-relationship-with-bp?INTCMP=SRCH
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Press contacts: 07858 177 178 or 07708 794 665info@risingtide.org.ukRecent press releases15 April 2011Tate Modern targeted by anti-BP flashmob protestProtesters angry at BP’s failures over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will descend on Tate Modern this Sunday in protest at the gallery’s links with the beleaguered oil giant.
BP Week of Action
BP Week of Action
BP and culture: time to break it off
A week of action to kick BP out of our cultural spaces
14 – 20 April 2011
The great BP-sponsored sleep-in
THE GREAT BP-SPONSORED SLEEP-IN
Sunday 17 April 2011, 2pm at Tate Modern, Bankside, London (map)