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"You may well ask: 'why direct action? Isn't negotiation a better path?' You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored"

On Saturday January 3rd, Art Not Oil activists put on an impromptu performance in the foyer of the National Theatre prior to the matinee performance of Shell-sponsored 'Oedipus'.

While a singer took to the stage (where there was a conveniently placed live microphone), another activist handed out leaflets, including a glossy spoof that looked like the National Theatre was inviting an open discussion about the morality of accepting oil company sponsorship. A third person joined in on cornet as security guards surrounded the singer. After singing, playing and speaking their point for a few minutes, they ended the protest, to a gratifying round of applause from the theatregoers who had watched the performance with interest.

Activists from London Rising Tide staged a 'die-in' in the BP sponsored Tate Britain on 4 January. Bob Jones from LRT said, "We're here to demand that the Tate cut its ties with BP; an art gallery is no place for an environmental hazard such as an oil company".

"BP are here to greenwash their image and distract from the ecological devastation they're causing around the world". The protesters handed out lots of leaflets and urged patrons to demand the end of oil company sponsorship of art galleries. (CLICK 'read more' TO SEE VIDEO)

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Rising Tide North America Climate Action Tour Video, Part 1
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Rising Tide North America Climate Action Tour Video, Part 2
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Camp for Climate action 2007- the insiders view

Various formats on archive.org

’Reclaim Power’ - voices from the Camp for Climate Action 2006

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Play sample (.mpg 157MB)

Cheeky Apocalypse (.mpg 103MB)

George Marshall and Richard Hering

Air travel (.mpg 13MB)

Don't fly within Europe - take a train!

Art vs Oil (.avi 91MB)

A short look at London Rising Tide's 'Art Not Oil' campaign and exhibition, which believes in 'creativity, climate justice and an end to oil industry sponsorship of the arts'.
London Rising Tide.

Other films we recommend

Still We Ride (re. NYC Critical Mass)

Reach for the Sky (re. aviation resistance)

Remember Saro-Wiwa

Raised Voices (raisedvoices.net)

Sakhalin's Black Tears

The Oil Factor

The End of Suburbia

Oil Crash

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