From @Cult_Unstained: 'Wow! This weekend saw huge resistance to unethical sponsorship of two of London’s major museums - by the climate justice movement, Palestine solidarity groups, human rights groups, parents and scientists and young people'...
On Monday, March 12, more than a dozen demonstrators entered the Louvre museum in Paris and laid down in front of Theodore Géricault’s iconic oil painting The Raft of Medusa, 1818–19, in protest of the French oil and gas company Total and its sponsorship of the institution.
The activists, who were dressed in all black, pretended to collapse on the
By taking sponsorship from Shell and BAE Systems for this year's 'New Scientist Live' festival, the science magazine is giving oil and arms a legitimacy they don't deserve.
Several campaign groups and organisations have now come together to oppose these sponsorship deals, and have made the statement below. You can
Photo by Diana More.