Young activists are threatened with arrest after staging an after-hours occupation of the Science Museum in protest over fossil fuel sponsorship, reports the Guardian.
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- Local residents led by Extinction Rebellion Hammersmith & Fulham maintain a weekly presence outside the Science Museum, giving flyers and stickers to the museum’s visitors and staging numerous theatrical performances over that period.
- UK Student Climate Network London hold a protest outside the Science Museum
- Scientists for XR lock themselves to a mechanical tree in the museum in protest over the Shell sponsorship.
- Scientists for XR write to Ian Blatchford calling for the end of Shell Sponsorship, reports The Ecologist. His response is here.
- Young people (UK Student Climate Network London) write a letter calling on the Science Museum to drop Shell, supported by more than 200 organisations and scientists. It’s covered by the Guardian.
- More than 8,000 people pledge to boycott the exhibition “Our future planet”.
- More than 50,000 people sign a petition asking the Science Museum to drop Shell as a sponsor.
- Scientist, Dr Emma Sayer, tells the Museums Association Journal she regrets working on the Science Museum’s exhibition now she knows it’s sponsored by Shell.
- Scientists speak out against the announcement of Shell sponsorship of the new exhibition “Our future planet”.