This was a talk about the connections between climate change and Palestine.
Panel: Our Struggles are United - Palestine and Climate Justice. The second talk was on the Science Musuem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6m-hLkxDU
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More than 30 protesters led by Youth Action for Climate Justice and Scientists for Extinction Rebellion have occupied the Science Museum’s new climate gallery, Energy Revolution, over its sponsorship by the coal giant and arms manufacturer, Adani. Naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham joined the group as they began their protest. Over the weekend, protesters took part in a two-day protest, sleeping overnight inside the museum. The group had planned to hold a public assembly to discuss what could be a suitable sponsor for the gallery, but the museum decided to close the exhibition to the public on Saturday, preventing the protesters and the pile of coal they had built from being seen by the public. The action was widely reported in the media.
The Science Museum found itself at the centre of growing controversy as over 150 people held a mass protest demanding it joins the rest of the culture sector in ending its controversial sponsorship deals with major fossil fuel companies. A huge 12-metre banner spanning the full height of the museum was unfurled inside its iconic Energy Hall while protesters flowed through the museum chanting ‘Adani out!’. It comes as the museum opens a new climate gallery sponsored by the controversial coal mining and arms-producing conglomerate Adani, which will join fossil fuel firm BP and Norwegian oil company Equinor as sponsors of the museum.
Fossil Free Science Museum staged a protest as guests and VIP, including museum trustee Baroness Nicky Morgan, arrived to the opening of the new ‘Energy Revolution’ gallery sponsored by coal baron Adani. The museum had tried to keep the opening date underwrap to dodge controversy and avoid embarrassment.
Earlier in the week, spoof adverts for the new ‘Energy Revolution’ gallery appeared on London’s tube network, posted by a parody account of the Science Museum’s Director Ian Blatchford.
1 Feb 2024 - Greta joins Scientists for XR, Health for XR and Extinction Rebellion to challenge the museum’s Science Director Roger Highfield over the museum’s partnership with coal giant Adani.
The protest was reported in more than 10 news outlets, including a mention of Channel 4 news reporting on Greta’s trial.
Inside the Science Museum’s Wellcome medicine gallery, health professionals unfurled a banner beside the huge ‘tattooed man’ and gave a series of talks highlighting the many links between fossil fuels, the climate crisis and their devastating impacts on health. More than 100 of them wrote to the trustees highlighting why they believe that the Science Museum should cut its ties with climate wrecking fossil fuel companies.
During the Great Exhibition Road Festival that attracts large crowds for a spectacular display of art and science, Extinction Rebellion smuggle a huge banner into The Museum’s Energy Hall to shine a light on the Science Museum’s shameful interactions with the fossil fuel industry. Scientists for XR, wearing their white lab coats, were showered with black paper confetti, representing the damage caused by The Museum’s coal, oil and gas sponsors. Different campaign groups also set up a guerilla stand in the heart of The Great Exhibition Road Festival, engaging the public about The Museum’s sponsors.
In a letter to the Science Museum Trustees, we challenged the museum management’s claim that Adani Green Energy is independent from the other Adani businesses and that no partnership was ever proposed for a corporate sponsorship specifically with the Adani Group.
As the answer received from Dame Mary Archer, chair of the trustees, did not address any of our concerns, we tried again with a new letter addressed to all trustees. We are none the wiser after the second response from Dame Mary