Another blow for Shell sponsorship in the Netherlands
Fro our friends at Fossil Free NL:
'After a long history of cultural sponsorship that started in 1931, Shell and NEMO Science Museum have quietly ended their partnership during lockdown. A cultural sector fully liberated from the fossil fuel industry is now within reach in Amsterdam.
We celebrate the end of Shell’s current partnership with NEMO and call for a commitment to rule out future fossil fuel partnerships. Let’s remember what we can’t accept.
Petition to Parliament to ban fossil fuel sponsorship
...created by Jason Scott-Warren, @jes1003:
Student climate strikers & friends protest at Science Museum
London, 22/5/21: student climate strikers joined by BP or not BP? in calling for the museum to drop oil giant
Shell as sponsor for its flagship climate exhibition. Petition handed to management amid calls for boycott.
@ukscn_london
@drop_BP
Photos courtesy of Ron F (@TheWeeklyBull)
Pledge to join the boycott of the Science Museum's climate exhibition
From our friends at UKSCN:
The Science Museum's new climate exhibition, Our Future Planet, is being sponsored by one of the world's biggest polluters: oil giant Shell. This is unacceptable.
We've signed petitions and sent open letters calling on them to drop Shell, but so far there's been no reply.
But if thousands of us pledge to boycott this upcoming exhibition, it will show the Science Museum the consequences of their decision to partner with a polluter like Shell.'
UK Student Climate Network: 'Drop Shell from the Science Museum' protest, 22.5.21
From our friends at @ukscn_london:
'we have put pressure on the @sciencemuseum
to #dropshell’s sponsorship of their new carbon capture exhibition. their response wasn’t good enough, so we are calling for action. join us in demanding that shell’s sponsorship is dropped: 22nd may | 2pm | the science museum'
Three guests pull out of Science Museum event
See also: https://cultureunstained.org/oil-sponsorship-of-the-science-museum/
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/our-future-planet
Robin Ince's blog explains the reasoning behind his decision to also pull out of the event:
In the Hope of Better Possible Futures - Why I Pulled Out of the Science Museum Event:
This!
BREAKING! Our campaign against oil sponsorship of the arts has just won 'Best Campaign' at the #CreativeGreen Awards 2020, organised and hosted by the amazing Julie's Bicycle.
This award is for everyone who has been part of this creative movement, from artists to activists, and from arts workers to youth strikers!