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Greenwash Guerillas

  • Rose Anderson/GGs


    On 14 April the Greenwash Guerrillas (GG) worked outside the Annual General Meeting of British Petroleum to prevent the public from being contaminated with greenwash (dangerous profit-seeking environmental whitewash).

    While most shareholders, hypnotised by the surfeit of friendly green BP logos, by the thought of ever-greater dividends, and by the prospect of a free lunch, brushed aside warnings (both personal and planetary) and marched into the meeting, at least two shareholders were not allowed to attend, which BP justified in a pre-meeting statement "We do not permit entry to persons whose conduct, behaviour or general demeanour may interfere with the good order of the meeting."
        Around 15 van-loads of police also attended the event.
    For more information see:     http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk London Rising Tide's "Art Not Oil 2005" see http://www.artnotoil. org.uk and http://www.national petroleumgallery.org.uk.
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