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Statement: protest will escalate with BP’s newly announced sponsorship deals
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Jul 28, 2016
Contact: Anna Galkina / 07942044472 / [email protected] Today BP announced new headline sponsorship agreements with the British Museum, Royal Opera House, National Portrait Gallery and Royal Shakespeare Company, providing the institutions with an average of only £375,000 a year each. This is less than the price of the average 2 bedroom flat in London, and 25% less...
Campaigner vacancy
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May 16, 2016
Platform is recruiting a new campaigner. 2.5 days per week – 20 hours (flexible) approx £31,000pa pro rata (based on a 40 hour week) Deadline: noon on Monday 6th June. Platform is looking for a new campaigner to work across a number of Platform projects. The successful candidate should be motivated to work towards climate...
We’re taking Tate to the Information Tribunal over #BPsecrets
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May 5, 2016
Next Wednesday, we’re taking Tate to the Information Tribunal for refusing to reveal details of BP sponsorship. The disputed information is the amounts BP gave after 2006 and until 2012. This is despite a previous court ruling, and despite the fact that the sponsorship deal is ending in 2017. Thanks to a heap of internal...
Media advisory: Tate to defend its BP secrecy in court, 11 May (hearing details)
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May 3, 2016
Media advisory: Tate to defend its BP secrecy in court, 11 May (hearing details) * Art museum refusing to make public sponsorship details despite ending the deal with BP.[1] * Hearing scheduled for 11 May 2016. * British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, and Royal Opera House believed to be reconsidering their sponsorship deals with BP by...
Drawing Red Lines – from Paris to Ffos-y-fran
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Apr 29, 2016
I watched the twitter feed and followed the news early last December filled with a mixture of excitement at what unfolded in Paris and mild envy of companions who were immersed in the ebb and flow of events around COP 21, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. As the reports of the...
“You come from the premise that we are guilty already” – notes from the BP AGM 2016
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Apr 20, 2016
Bob Dudley, Chief Executive, who appears tired, pale and jowly, looks up from his notes and addresses a set of questions that have been put to the Board. This particular set from delegates at the Annual General Meeting of BP, are grouped together under the bracket of ‘concerned with climate change’. He peers out at...
New opinion poll: 2/3 of Londoners ration their heating; 3/4 want mayor who cuts bills
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Apr 8, 2016
New opinion poll reveals Londoners’ anger over high energy bills 2/3 of Londoners rationed their heating due to high bills 3/4 of Londoners want a Mayor who will lower bills New polling conducted by Switched on London reveals that 87% of Londoners feel they are paying too much for their energy and there is cross-party...
Edinburgh Festival drops BP. And 1 in 2 Londoners think British Museum should do the same
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Apr 6, 2016
The news is just in: the Edinburgh International Festival is not renewing its BP sponsorship – as confirmed by the festival on Twitter. Last year, Festival star Simon McBurney criticised the BP relationship, alongside Emma Thompson, Mark Rylance, and Caryl Churchill. Several theatres including London’s Royal Court and Arcola have joined the Fossil Funds Free...
We’ve kicked BP out of Tate – but the work’s not done yet
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Mar 21, 2016
Tate’s BP sponsorship is ending. Last Saturday Liberate Tate released a spectacular cloud of confetti through the huge space of Tate’s Turbine Hall to celebrate. In kicking BP out of Tate, the movement for fossil free culture has achieved something that appeared impossible. This post is based on a slideshow we projected inside the Turbine...
6 reasons why #Budget2016 really really shouldn’t subsidise North Sea oil even more
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Mar 15, 2016
Osborne is announcing his #Budget2016 on Weds, and there’s lots of pressure from the oil barons for more subsidies and tax cuts. Their income has been hit by the falling oil price, and in all those years of bonanza profits they never thought to save for this rainy day (even though it was predictable given the mostly cyclical...
Campaign ends Tate’s BP deal
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Mar 11, 2016
Campaign ends Tate’s BP deal Contact: Anna Galkina / @PlatformLondon / [email protected] It was announced today that BP’s sponsorship of art museum Tate was to end in 2017.[1] Platform’s campaigner Anna Galkina said The end of Tate’s sponsorship deal with BP is hopeful news for us, for the art world, and for everyone...
