Something significant happened this week. In a hotel in Brighton, with a show of hands and a round of applause, a new alliance was formally sealed – an alliance that might bring the end of the fossil fuel age one step closer. This week, the Public and Commercial Sector Union (PCS) have been holding their … More Gallery and museum workers vote to oppose oil sponsorship

50 performers recreate Deepwater Horizon oil spill inside British Museum in protest at BP sponsorship New York activists Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir join forces with BP or not BP? Guerrilla performance marks five years since disastrous oil spill Performers cause disruption in the Great Court, with umbrellas, giant pelicans, songs and an … More We create an oil spill inside the British Museum, with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir!

Concerns around the British Museum’s Indigenous Australia exhibition, and its sponsor BP This week, the new BP-sponsored exhibition ‘Indigenous Australia: Enduring Cultures’ opened at the British Museum. On Tuesday, we gatecrashed the exhibition’s press launch with a banner reading “Stolen Land, Stolen Culture, Stolen Climate”. Our protest gained coverage on BBC Radio 4’s flagship arts … More Stolen Land, Stolen Culture, Stolen Climate

* British Museum ‘Indigenous Australia’ press launch disrupted by activists criticising oil sponsorship and calling for repatriation of indigenous objects * BP donations revealed to be just 0.8% of museum’s income At 10.30am this morning the official media launch of the British Museum’s new BP-sponsored exhibition, “Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation”, was interrupted by an unexpected theatrical … More Protesters gatecrash exhibition launch over ‘stolen culture’ and BP sponsorship

Holmes and Watson return for BP and a final showdown! For interviews and photos, email “BP or not BP?” on info@bp-or-not-bp.org. On Sunday at 3pm, a large group of protesters descended on the British Museum in a flashmob protest against the museum’s controversial sponsorship deal with BP, watched by several hundred museumgoers. Dressed as famous police … More Performers put BP on trial for “gross deception” at British Museum

BP sponsorship to British Museum was just £596,000 per year from 2000- 2011 – around 0.8% of the Museum’s income. 200 to join flashmob protest against BP at British Museum on Sunday of “Museum Week”. Museum accused of cleaning up BP’s reputation, as BP face a possible $13.8 billion fine over Gulf of Mexico spill. … More British Museum faces flashmob protest as size of BP donation revealed

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by one our “actor-vists” has revealed that the donation behind BP’s controversial sponsorship deal with the British Museum is, as expected, embarrassingly small. The Museum disclosed that BP donated an average of £596,000 a year from 2000 to 2011 – just 0.8% of the museum’s income. The revelation … More BP’s donation to the British Museum

You are hereby invited to a DETECTIVE FLASHMOB on the afternoon of Sunday March 29th 2015, inside the British Museum! The British Museum is harbouring the world’s biggest corporate criminal: BP. The oil company is facing the largest criminal fine in history (at least $4.5 bn) after pleading guilty to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. By … More Detective flashmob: help catch the dastardly criminal BP hiding in the British Museum!

We strike again, at the BP-sponsored British Museum Join the Detective flashmob on Sunday March 29th! Email info@bp-or-not-bp.org for more details. You can also join the Facebook event, and sign the petition. Today at 3pm, twenty people entered the British Museum and launched into a guerrilla theatre performance in the Great Court, in front of … More Holmes and Watson confront corporate criminal BP in the British Museum

National Gallery criticised for Shell sponsorship and proposed privatisation on eve of staff strike At 11.25 this morning, the official media launch of the National Gallery’s Shell-sponsored Rembrandt exhibition was interrupted by an unexpected musical protest. Ten performers launched into a energetic reworked musical version of “Dr Faustus” in front of surprised journalists, staff and … More Musical anti-oil and privatisation protest disrupts launch of National Gallery exhibition