Rising Tide UK - Action:Greenwash

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

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

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:34:37 +0100

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

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:32:58 +0100

On 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

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:56:36 +0100

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.

OIL SPILL ACTION AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, 3.2.07

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:17:30 +0100

Climate activists splatter oil across photo exhibition in outrage at Shell
greenwash tactics

Today at the Shell-sponsored Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
at the Natural History Museum, 20 activists inspired by the Camp for
Climate Action (1), smeared oil over the photographs. This was an act of
outrage at Shell’s painfully transparent attempts to greenwash its
reputation via cultural sponsorship.

Art Not Oil at The Foundry, London, June 29th-July 9th

Wed, 17 May 2006 16:39:56 +0200

* for creativity, climate justice and an end to oil industry sponsorship of the arts *

Art Not Oil at The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3JL, (Old Street tube)
June 29th-July 9th 2006

Image: Fabio Sassi
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Art Not Oil sheds light and shadow on the oil industry...

BP refuses gift of song outside Annual General Meeting, 20.4.06

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:02:33 +0200

Members of the provisionally musical theatre wing of climate justice
action group London Rising Tide (LRT) set out on April 20th 2006 to communicate their
warm feelings about BP in song to shareholders heading for the oil giant's
Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the ExCel Centre in Docklands.

Art Not Oil in Glasgow for February; Call for Entries 2006 launched

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:37:18 +0100

ART NOT OIL runs at Mono (12 Kings Court, Glasgow) from February 1st until February 28th, sorted by the Camcorder Guerillas (www.camcorderguerillas.net), who will be hosting an evening of short oily films including 'Grangemouth-Brazil Video Letters' from 7-9pm on Monday Feb 13th.

BIG OIL AND HIGH ART MEET LONDON CULTURES OF RESISTANCE REMEMBERING OGONI 9

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:15:51 +0100

On November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, especially Shell and Chevron.

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of this execution, activists from London Rising Tide, Rhythms of Resistance, Rossport Solidarity Camp and London Earth First! came together to take action against Shell for its activities in Nigeria, in Ireland and worldwide.

Nine nooses were hung from lampposts directly in front of Shell’s UK headquarters on London’s South Bank. A pipeline decorated with slogans celebrating resistance to the curse of oil in the Niger Delta and in County Mayo in the past and right now were also on site, as were banners and a small but noisy samba band.

Art Not Oil heads to Newcastle, October 5th-28th

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:10:25 +0200

please spread far and wide!
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indignation – inspiration – creation…solution?

ART NOT OIL

at The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 5DW; Tel: 0191 232 6478

EXHIBITION RUNS OCTOBER 5th-28th
FREE PUBLIC OPENING, WED OCT 5th, 7pm: art – music – food – talk

As the BP Portrait Award settles in at the Sunderland Museum and Winter
Gardens, its alter ego Art Not Oil comes to the Forth Hotel to offer up
what could be a truer portrait of an oil company, as well as celebrating
our creative dissent.

Art Not Oil in London

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:38:16 +0200

indignation – inspiration – creation... solution?

ART NOT OIL
at Oxford House, Derbyshire St., London E2 6HG
Bethnal Green tube

EXHIBITION RUNS AUGUST 5th-28th
Mon - Fri: 9am - 10pm; Sat & Sun: 10am - 6pm
Leaflets & posters available from info@artnotoil.org.uk

FREE PUBLIC OPENING, THURSDAY AUGUST 4th, 6-10pm: