London Rising Tide

Saturday, 10 April 2010
Meet 1 PM at Oxford Circus

BP want to start extracting oil from the tar sands, the single most destructive project on earth - fueling climate chaos and trampling the rights of indigenous communities.

London Rising Tide are supporting the UK Tar Sands Network and are combining meetings for the near future. For more information please visit http://www.no-tar-sands.org/ or http://tarsandsinfocus.wordpress.com/

BP today had to halt the launch of a multi-million pound ‘Back to Black’ ad campaign. That’s right, BP’s award-winning ‘beyond petroleum’ brand took a hit today when a, previously unknown, PR agency delivered 22,000 revamped BP logos and a new sign to the company’s headquarters in St. James’ Square.The ad agency misinterpreted the brief to come up with a new logo that took account of BP’s decision to invest in the Canadian tar sands, and launched the multi-million pound ‘Back to Black’ campaign.

We are holding a film and discussion evening as an introduction for people who want to find out about London Rising Tide.
Everyone is welcome.

Dateline: theguardian CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT 2009, Hotel Russell, London, UK, 08:30-09:30, Mon 15 Jun 09 – Despite German-HQed climate criminal corporatrion E.ON’s efforts to bag billions of quid from the British State to build new filthy dirty coal fired power stations at Kingsnorth, Kent and elsewhere, the Guardian still took its polluted money in sponsoring its Climate Change Summit.

On Friday 28th November London Rising Tide visited the F.A.Headquarters to protest about E-on's sponsorship of the FA Cup. A full team of Rising Tiders turned out to play football in T shirts bearing the names of the government's proposed new coal fired powerstations.

On 20th October Greenwash Guerrillas visited the EDF headquarters to warn employees of the dangers of engaging with nuclear greenwash. EDF were obviously aware of the danger of their product as we were met with a wall of security.

On Wednesday 15th October Art Not Oil made it's first visit to the National Theatre to highlight Shell's sponsorship of the autumn production of Oedipus.

Shell is sponsoring the National Theatre's new production of 'Oedipus', and, unsurprisingly, Art Not Oil is preparing a response on various fronts. We're asking people if they're up for making an artwork of some kind as a response This could be an image, song, film or poem to appear on our website, or to be printed on a postcard or something similar. We're open to ideas. (Unfortunately, we aren't able to pay for your work, but we have no wish to possess it!) If this is of interest, we'd love to see it as soon as possible, as 'Oedipus' runs until January 2009 only.

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Here is a video of LRT actions.
Enjoy.
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