Rev. Billy Exorcises BP from London’s Tate Modern

Topics: Climate, Direct Action, Finance, Oil

This just in from Reverend Billy:

A coalition of earth activist groups including Art Not Oil, Climate Rush, UK Tar Sands Coalition and Liberate Tate recently approached the Church of Earthalujah to “EXORCISE BP” from the Tate Modern museum in central London. The results were astonishing!

British Petroleum, or BP, is a contributor to the museum and features its logo on the building. This event concluded a 9 city tour of Europe and the UK that Rev. Billy embarked on, with actions in lobbies of Deutschbank, ING, UBS, and HSBC branches.

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Posted on 22 July 2011

Tags: Art Not Oil, bp, Church of Earthaluja, Climate Rush, Liberate Tate, rainforest action network, RAN, Reverend Billy, Tate Modern, UK Tar Sands Coalition

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Annie Sartor is a Campaigner for RAN’s Global Finance team. Annie’s work includes researching bank investments in the coal industry as well as organizing and mobilizing activists around the United States to demand that the world’s biggest banks adopt policies that are consistent with human rights and environmental protection best practices.

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Kevin Smith says:

July 23, 2011 at 2:27 am

There’s a whole bunch of other vids of creative art-interventions against oil sponsorship that have been taking place in UK gallery spaces

http://liberatetate.wordpress.com/videos/

And a leaflet that explains how oil companies use arts sponsorship as a means of creating their ‘social licence to operate’ in other parts of the world

http://www.platformlondon.org/carbonweb/documents/licencetospill.pdf