'Adani off our lands' (SM, 23.3.24)
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'...
Science Museum’s secret VIP opening targeted
From https://www.fossilfreesciencemuseum.com/protest-at-secret-launch
Images credit: Fossil Free Science Museum Coalition
Thursday 21 March 2024, 8.30pm
Science Museum’s secret VIP opening of new climate gallery hit by protest over coal and arms sponsor Adani
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Protesters greeted guests at every entrance to the Science Museum as it hosted private opening of new climate gallery
'Energy Revolution' protests at Science Museum
Tweet from @RealMediaGB, 23.3.24: The Science Museum will be opening its new #Adani-sponsored ‘Energy Revolution’ gallery on Tuesday 26th March, and a wide variety of groups occupied the museum this afternoon to expose Adani’s far from Green credentials and its connections to the #Gaza genocide.
A massive banner drop ended two hours of speeches, processions and smaller banner drops throughout the museum.
New Adani/Science Museum spoof film
An update from the ever-industrious and inspired Culture Unstained:
Today (5.12.23), The Times has broken the story of our latest investigation - which reveals how the Director of the Science Museum in London pushed through the decision to take sponsorship money from the coal-producing conglomerate Adani…for a new climate gallery!
MOTHERS* REBELLION AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM
From our fantastic friends at realmedia: https://realmedia.press/mothers-rebellion-science-museum/
September 2023; film by Pasqueline Agostinho
Health professionals visit Science Museum to highlight sponsorship
Thanks for the ever-fantastic realmedia for this story:
https://realmedia.press/health-workers-science-museum-protest/
Art to End Fossil Fuels
News from our excellent friends at Rising Tide North America:
When world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York this September, people across the world will hit the street in massive coordinated action to demand that governments end fossil fuels. Fossil Fuels are the primary cause of the climate crisis, causing this Summer's extreme heat, fires, toxic smoke and flooding.
The pressure stays on the British Museum
Thanks to The Art Newspaper for this coverage:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/07/artists-and-cultural-leaders…
'BP sponsorship of British Museum ends after 27 years, as tide turns on fossil fuel funding of the arts'
Testament to the escalating horrors of climate breakdown, and of course the extraordinary tenacity and creativity of 18 years of climate justice-fuelled interventions...
More here: https://cultureunstained.org/latest-news/
See also
'British Museum ends BP sponsorship deal after 27 years
Campaigners hail split as a ‘massive victory’, which marks a retreat of the fossil fuel giant from the British arts world'