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Greenwash Guerrillas Embarrass E.ON
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Climate Campers and friends, including Rising Tiders, put a fresh dent in E.ON’s tarnished reputation with a Greenwash Guerrillas demo outside the 16th July Guardian Climate Change Summit, which E.ON are sponsoring.
Protected by toxic waste hazard suits and brandishing a top-of-the-line range of greenwash detecting devices, the 40 intrepid Greenwash Guerrillas swarmed around the building (the Business Design Centre in Islington, whose marketing managers were not best pleased at their presence and who might think twice about working with a climate criminal like E.ON in future), making sure that every delegate who entered knew about E.ON’s attempt to build the first new coal fired power station in the UK for thirty years at Kingsnorth, in Kent (site of this year’s Camp for Climate Action, which has other plans – like leaving fossil fuels in the ground!).
SHELL DITCHED AS WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER EXHIBITION SPONSOR IN FACE OF WIDESPREAD PROTEST
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PRESS RELEASE, January 26th 2008
Shell’s two year tenure as sponsor of the Natural History Museum’s ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ exhibition has come to an end. A determined, creative two year national campaign, coordinated in part by the direct action group Rising Tide and its Art Not Oil (1) campaign, helped to force the NHM to ditch Shell.
'Die-in' at the BP-sponsored Tate Britain
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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)
Greenwash Guerrillas tackle major greenwash leakage at Shell HQ
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On 3rd January 2008, at about lunch time, the LRT Greenwash Guerrillas discovered a major source of greenwash at Shell HQ in Waterloo, London. The Guerrillas entered the lobby for an inspection but were so repelled by the Greenwash that they had to leave (the security assisting their escape).
BBC Wildlife Magazine HQ Visited
Action:GreenwashFed Up Polar Bear Disrupts National BBC Wildlife Magazine HQ
This morning, Tuesday December 11th, at 10am, two members of “Arctic Associates” (aka Bristol Rising Tide), and one grumpy refugee polar bear paid a visit to the national offices of the BBC Wildlife Magazine at the top of Tower House in Broadmead, Bristol. More than a hundred employees looked on aghast (some winking in support) as “J. Smith” from Arctic Associates, flanked by Mr. Pole R. Bear, made a long and passionate speech about the sad and dangerous irony of allowing the world’s second largest oil company- responsible for endangering thousands of species through oil spills, toxic pollution, and climate change- to sponsor their Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award Contest, which is coming to Bristol Museum this Saturday December 15th.
International RT Hoax Targets Big Carbon
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Today, the International Rising Tide network pulled off a Yes Men style hoax targeting the 33 businesses and organisations that form the US Climate Action Partnership (including BP, Caterpillar, ConocoPhillips, Dow, DuPont, Ford, General Electric, General Motors Corp., Shell and Xerox to name but a few). The hoax was timed to coincide with the opening of the United Nations climate summit in Bali in an effort to expose the disproportionate influence of large corporations on the climate negotiations, and the greenwash these companies spin instead of taking any real initiative on fossil fuel reduction.
SHELL'S WILD LIE CORNERS SHELL IN ABERYSTWYTH
Action:GreenwashOn November 9th 2007, Aberystwyth Arts Centre finished hosting the 2007
Shell Wildlife Photographer exhibition, organised by the Natural History
Museum and BBC Wildlife magazine. On November 10th, the Centre began
showing the counter-exhibition, 'Shell's Wild Lie', which ran until
November 17th. It will feature at the after-party for the London Climate
March on December 8th, then head to Bristol to be hosted by Bristol Rising
Tide when the Shell exhibition is also in the city.
SONGS OF FREEDOM AT OPENING OF SHELL WILD LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER EXHIBITION, 27.10.07
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15 or so folk from all over Carbon Town gathered today to sing a new hymn of hope to an oil-free future in the co-opted cathedral that is the Unnatural History Museum, where the heartbreakingly beautiful Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition has just opened. For a short film click here.
