'We just occupied the British Museum for 51 hours, against BP sponsorship and colonialism'

More from our fantastic friends BP or not BP: https://bp-or-not-bp.org/news/ 'This morning at 10.30am, 40 activists processed out of the British Museum after successfully occupying its iconic Great Court for 20 hours and creating a “durational artwork” overnight, in a challenge to the museum’s BP sponsorship deal.

MASS ACTION vs. climate crisis & colonialism at British Museum, 8.2.20

From our friends at https://bp-or-not-bp.org/troy/ MASS ACTION against the climate crisis and colonialism – let’s kick BP out of the British Museum! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH 2020 (exact times tbc) Want to join the largest protest the British Museum has ever seen? The British Museum is launching a major new exhibition, sponsored by the oil giant BP. We are in the middle of a climate emergency. The British Museum claims to agree – its Chair of Trustees recently called climate change “the great issue of our time”.

OPEN LETTER TO BRITISH MUSEUM RE. BP EXHIBITION 'TROY: MYTH AND REALITY'

https://www.zoelafferty.com/open-letter?fbclid=IwAR2J1Gee2_Z5EM35kmS3-u… 18th November 2019 ​ Dear Hartwig Fischer and Trustees of the British Museum, ​As one of the performers and the director of the groundbreaking play ‘Queens of Syria’, we were initially thrilled to discover that a film of our work would be included in your upcoming exhibition ‘Troy: Myth and Reality’.