Rising Tide UK - Action:Greenwash

Shell Live Wire / Death Rope - In Memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:50:08 +0100

Thursday 10th November marked the sixteenth anniversary of the killing of ken saro-wiwa and eight other activists in nigeria. on the 9th, shell, complicit in their execution, was polishing its image by sponsoring an awards event for young entrepeneurs at the centrepoint building in central london. london rising tide organised a reminder of shell's bloody history outside the event, involving grim reapers, sombre drums, and hundreds of leaflets.

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Reverend Billy and the Tate Exorcism

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:34:42 +0200

Reverend Billy and & The Church of Earthalujah invite you to a service at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall on Monday 18 July, 5.30pm.

An exorcism of the evil spirit of BP, brought to you by Liberate Tate, UK Tar Sands Network, Rising Tide, Art Not Oil and Climate Rush.

Brothers and sisters, a dark beast lurks within the bosom of one of our most cherished arts institutions. While good-hearted, god-fearing, gallery goers glory in the miracle of art, the beast below is encircling the planet with its oily tentacles, destroying righteous communities, poisoning God’s beauteous creations, and bringing us all ever closer to the climate apocalypse.

BP portrait award demo: guests and judges file past faces of the Gulf spill

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:54:13 +0200

On 14 June, guests and judges arriving for the BP Portrait Award ceremony came face to face with portraits of people affected by BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon caused the deaths of 11 oil workers and untold, ongoing damage to the people and the environment of the Gulf Coast.

The great BP-sponsored sleep-in: REPORT

Mon, 02 May 2011 13:20:52 +0200

Sunday 17 April 2011, 2:15pm The Tate Modern, Southbank, London

This Sunday the Tate Modern became the site of a spontaneous BP-sponsored sleep in as around 100 people answered Rising Tide’s call for a flashmob at 2:15 pm within the iconic museum.

With watches synchronised and BP-branded sleeping gear at the ready, the participants found themselves falling as one under a sponsorship-induced stupor, on the floor of the Tate Modern. The flashmob provided an excellent way to catch the attention of the browsers in the gallery, and as the sleepers lay all about the turbine hall and first 3 floors, and the public stared, our cameras were there to catch their reactions.

CoMutiny - Debunking BT's Greenwash

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:23:00 +0100

Bristol CoMutiny: Debunking BT's Greenwash
18 September 2009

On Friday 18th September during the Co-Mutiny Repossess the Banks protest, Rising Tide took action against BT offices in Bristol to highlight the link between the BT Pensions Scheme and the giant Ffos y Fran opencast coal mine at Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. Fake coal was strewn on the floor of one office and walking lumps of coal attempted to enter another. A number of activists were arrested.

Greenwash spill at the BP-sponsored National Portrait Gallery

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:46:10 +0200

Guardian/E-On Greenwash Climate Summit

Thu, 28 May 2009 11:40:48 +0200

London Rising Tide and the Greenwash Guerillas cordially invite you to a morning of greenwash detecting at the Guardian Climate Summit, sponsored by E-On, Monday 15th June 2009. Following on from the success of last years detecting, a team of Greenwash Guerillas are said to be meeting at 8am at the Hotel Russell, 1-8 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 5BE

Protective attire can be easily obtained by contacting Rising Tide on 07708 794665 / london@risingtide.org.uk or attending the next Rising Tide meeting at 7.30pm on 28/5/09. The more the merrier, and what better way to start the week than by highlighting the hypocrisy of E-On's sponsorship of this event?

Greenwash Guerillas EDF Action

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:14:00 +0200

London Rising Tide's Greenwash Guerillas Brigade, Detection Platoon #1, moved into action on Monday morning at 08:00 hours – targeting energy corporation Électricité de France (EDF) at the central London headquarters of their UK subsidiary EDF Energy.

Art Not Oil visits Shell sponsored Oedipus

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:06:53 +0200

On Wednesday 15th October Art Not Oil made it's first visit to the National Theatre to highlight Shell's sponsorship of the autumn production of Oedipus.

Shell is sponsoring the National Theatre's new production of 'Oedipus', and, unsurprisingly, Art Not Oil is preparing a response on various fronts. We're asking people if they're up for making an artwork of some kind as a response This could be an image, song, film or poem to appear on our website, or to be printed on a postcard or something similar. We're open to ideas. (Unfortunately, we aren't able to pay for your work, but we have no wish to possess it!) If this is of interest, we'd love to see it as soon as possible, as 'Oedipus' runs until January 2009 only.

Greenwash Guerrillas Embarrass E.ON

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:33:15 +0200

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

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:30:21 +0100

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

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:51:31 +0100

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

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:05:59 +0100

(Click play twice to make the film start).

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

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:39:01 +0100

Fed Up Polar Bear Disrupts National BBC Wildlife Magazine HQ
11 December 2007

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.

Shell's Wild Lie

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:13:04 +0100

Stopping Shell's greenwash at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards
15 December 2007

It hasn’t been an easy week for the organisers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award and the Bristol Museum, or their sponsor and proud wildlife destroyer— sugardaddy Shell Oil Company. All week, concerned individuals from around Bristol have been exposing the truth about Shell and the public institutions who are helping to greenwash them.