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info@risingtide.org.ukRecent press releases15 April 2011Tate Modern targeted by anti-BP flashmob protestProtesters angry at BP’s failures over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will descend on Tate Modern this Sunday in protest at the gallery’s links with the beleaguered oil giant.

BP Week of Action

BP and culture: time to break it off

A week of action to kick BP out of our cultural spaces

14 – 20 April 2011

THE GREAT BP-SPONSORED SLEEP-IN

Sunday 17 April 2011, 2pm at Tate Modern, Bankside, London (map)

The great BP-sponsored sleep-in: REPORT

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

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM ACTIONSaturday 16 April 2011, 1pm The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, LondonOn a sunny spring weekend around 20 activists converged on Greenwich to take part in Climate Camp London's protest a

BP Week of Action

BP and culture: time to break it off!

A week of action to kick BP out of our cultural spaces

14 – 20 April 2011

Find out all about it at our dedicated BP Week of Action micro-site

PRESS RELEASE from' Facing the Gulf - Portraits of Oil', 7.3.11:

Tel: (0)1 504 460 5845; facingthegulf@gmail.com

http://facingthegulfportraitsofoil.blogspot.com

http://liberatetate.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/alternative-tate-audio-tour-extended-deadline/

There are exciting plans hatching in London to commemorate the first anniversary of BP (and friends') Deepwater oil spill. Watch this space for more info.